«It’s all a bit strange, from today it will be different: I will return to Italy, it is certainly a big change but change can also be positive… After all, it’s not like I died, I just retired». Irony (in an interview with l‘Adnkronos) is by Giovanna Botteri, historic Rai correspondent, who is retiring from today even if she promises that it is only the beginning of a phase full of projects. The journalist, sent all over the world — from New York to Beijing to Paris, his last residence — describes the spirit with which he is about to enter a new phase of life: «I believe that there are those two or three things that I know how to do, and I believe I will continue to do them. Of course it’s a big leap, I’ve been living abroad for many years now. But it’s life, it’s also right to give relief to young people, take the baton, there are very good young journalists around. It’s a natural transition.” There will be “more time for passions”, explains the journalist. Like the one for Lazio. «I will have more time to go to the stadium».
Giovanna Botteri turned 67 on Friday and has lived through three decades of conflicts around the globe, from Bosnia to Iraq. She remembered the hardest time well: «The massacre of 6 children in Sarajevo. They had gone to play with sleds and died under two mortar hits. With Miran Hrovatin we went to the morgue, he came out in tears because he thought he had seen him as his son. In Baghdad I was struck by the mothers: they were afraid when the children went out to play, they gave them Valium and tranquilizers to make them sleep more because being outdoors means splinters, bombs, death. Here war is also this: you see the people you love against the light and you think: what if it happened to me?
»){kind=link}