Marcello Palmisano (
San Michele Salentino
San Michele Salentino is a ''comune'' in the province of Brindisi in Apulia, on the south-east Italian coast. Its main economic activities are the growing of olives and grapes.
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, 17 January 1940 -
Mogadishu, February 9, 1995) was an Italian journalist and reporter.
After high school, Palmisano emigrated to
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, where he found work as a laborer. From Switzerland he moved to
Cologne,
Germany, where he graduated as a cameraman.
He then pursued this new work for the Swiss public broadcaster. Back in Italy in 1972, he started working for
RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, realising several different services in war scenarios such as
Cambodia,
Vietnam,
Afghanistan,
Libya and
Somalia.
He died in
Mogadishu[ ] February 9, 1995, killed by
Somali gunmen during an ambush while he was filming the retreat of the
US army.
Apparently mistaken for somebody else, as he was reporting with a colleague, Carmen Lasorella who survived, on the withdrawal of US troops. He was caught up in the country’s "banana war"
for control of the banana industry, which led to clashes between rival warlords.
[ ]
References
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Assassinated Italian journalists
Communications in Somalia
Journalists killed while covering the Somali Civil War
1940 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
20th-century Italian male writers