Enzo Tortora
Milan, Italy
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Alberto Alemanno: “Because his wrongful imprisonment became a catalyst for Italian judicial reform, and because he transformed personal injustice into a campaign for systemic change.”
Italian journalist and television presenter (1928-1988), host of the historic Sunday-evening variety show Portobello on RAI. In June 1983 he was arrested in front of the cameras on false charges of mafia association and drug trafficking, based on the testimony of unreliable informants. After seven months in prison and a four-year trial, he was fully acquitted in 1986 and died of cancer two years later. His case remains a defining reference in Italian debate on miscarriage of justice and the righ
Arts & Culture · Co-Being · In Memoriam
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