The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation dedicates a day to the memory of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, Carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci and World Food Programme driver Mustapha Milambo, who were killed in an ambush in Congo on 22 February 2021.
Two years after the tragic event, a video message by the Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, has been released in memory of the three deceased.
At 10.30 a.m. all the staff of the Foreign Ministry and the foreign offices observed a minute’s silence.
At the same time, in connection with Kinshasa, the call for scholarship applications promoted by the Mama Sofia Foundation, with the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Education and Merit and the Ministry of University and Research, in memory of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, was launched in the Luca Attanasio Room at the Foreign Ministry.
The “Ambassador Luca Attanasio Scholarships” project had been presented in December 2022 on the occasion of the 15th Conference of Italian Ambassadors Worldwide, in the presence of Minister Antonio Tajani, to commemorate the value of the young diplomat’s moral and spiritual legacy.
The event was attended by the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, Amb. Ettore Francesco Sequi. Zakia Seddiki Attanasio and the Ambassador of Italy to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Alberto Petrangeli, also partecipated via video-link from Kinshasa.
