the Neapolitan journalist was suffering from cancer

Franco Di Mare, the journalist born in 1955 who was a correspondent and network director in, has died Raithe company he had worked for throughout his career after his early beginnings in Naples. Di Mare was suffering from cancer: a few weeks ago, live on TV “What’s the weather like” on the Nine, he had denounced the difficulties of the disease and his precarious state of health.

«I have had a beautiful life and the memories I have are full of life. I’m sorry to find out now, but it’s not too late, my referee hasn’t blown the whistle yet,” he said Of sea live, connected from home and with a respirator to help him.

On the same occasion, he also attacked his former company: «All of it Rai, all the leadership groups have disappeared. I understand that there are union and legal reasons, I was asking for the service record, the list of places where I have been to find out what could be done. I can’t understand the absence on a human level, people who I used to address but who denied each other on the phone. I find only one adjective: è repugnant».

A few days ago, Of sea he had also fulfilled the dream of recent years by marrying his partner Giulia Berdini with whom he had shared the first and last stages of the disease: «The woman who had the strength to put up with me, even when I couldn’t stand myself either» he said with a smile.

The mesothelioma that had accompanied the last part of his life Of sea had a fairly clear origin: lung cancer deriving from inhaling asbestos, a substance which was rich in the streets of Sarajevo which Of sea with a crew in tow he had become well acquainted in 1992, among the depleted uranium bullets.

His life as a correspondent did not stop there: Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Mozambique, Algeria, Albania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, the first and second Gulf War among the conflicts followed over the years between the Rai editorial offices of Tg2 and Tg1.

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