ITALY: FAMILY AND FRIENDS PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO FIAT CHAIRMAN AND JUVENTUS FOOTBALL CLUB OWNER UMBERTO AGNELLI IN TURIN.

Record ID: 648550

  • Title: ITALY: FAMILY AND FRIENDS PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS TO FIAT CHAIRMAN AND JUVENTUS FOOTBALL CLUB OWNER UMBERTO AGNELLI IN TURIN.
  • Date: 29th May 2004
  • Summary: (U4)TURIN, ITALY (MAY 29, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR OF FIAT FACTORY 2. VARIOUS PEOPLE QUEUEING OUTSIDE TO PAY LAST RESPECTS 3. COFFIN LYING IN STATE GUARDED BY FIAT SECURITY GUARDS 4. WIFE OF UMBERTO AGNELLI, ALLEGRA AGNELLI BEING HELD BY HEAD OF ITALIAN SENATE MARCELO PERA 5. MARCELO PERA STANDING WITH UMBERTO AGNELLIS CHILDREN, ANNA AND ANDREA 6. COFFIN COVERED WITH FLOWERS 7. LINE OF PEOPLE 8. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ANTONIO MARANGANI, WAITING IN LINE TO PAY LAST RESPECTS, SAYING: "It's a great loss not only for Turin but for the whole of Italy. I'm so sorry it happened this quickly he could have done alot for Fiat." 9. PEOPLE ARRIVING TO PAY LAST RESPECTS 10. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) FLAVIO CARLI, WAITING TO PAY LAST RESPECTS SAYING: "Umberto Agnelli was a symbol of hard work, he could have brought Fiat up to the level all of us hope for." 11. UMBERTO AGNELLIS SISTER, SUZANNA AGNELLI STANDING NEXT TO FIAT CHIEF EXECUTIVE GIUSEPPE MORCHIO 12. FIAT AND JUVENTUS FLAGS FLYING IN SIGN OF MOURNING 13. ALEGRA AGNELLI CRYING 14. JUVENTUS SOCCER TEAM ARRIVING TO PAY RESPECTS 15. FORMER JUVENTUS COACH MARCELO LIPPI HOLDING WIFE ALLEGRA AGNELLI AS SHE CRYS 16. JUVENTUS PLAYER PAVEL NEDVED PRAYING NEXT TO COFFIN 17. DAVID TREZEGUET PRAYING NEXT TO COFFIN 18. TEAM PRAYING NEXT TO COFFIN Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: TURIN, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVAB0NH0DKNU988NUOPJ2OO4GIK9
  • Story Text: Family and friends have been paying their last
    respects to Fiat chairman Umberto Agnelli.



    Family, friends, colleagues, politicians and
    players from the Agnelli family's football club Juventus
    lined up on Saturday (May 29) to pay their last respects to
    Fiat chairman Umberto Agnelli, who died on Thursday (May 28).

    Agnelli's death from cancer at the age of 69 came less
    than a month after his illness was made public.

    Cancer also killed his legendary, dashing brother
    Gianni last year and Umberto's son Giovannino in 1997, aged 33.

    Agnelli took the reins 16 months ago after his brother
    Giannis death and when Fiat was mired in its
    worst-ever crisis.

    The 105-year-old car maker that became a dynamo of
    Italy's post-war boom, a magnet for labour unrest in the
    1970s and 80s and a test of its ability to compete in a
    global economy in the 1990s, now faces a generational shift.

    "It's a great loss not only for Turin but for the whole
    of Italy. I'm so sorry it happened this quickly he could
    have done a lot for Fiat," said Antonio Marangani waiting
    in line to pay his respects.

    Umberto Agnelli was a symbol of hard work, he could
    have brought Fiat up to the level all of us hope for said
    Flavio Carli, also waiting in line.

    Former Juventus coach Marcelo Lippi held a crying
    Allegra Agnelli in his arms as the Juventus team arrived to
    pay their last respects to their owner.

    A funeral at the private estate of the glittering but
    tragedy-hit family is scheduled for early evening.




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