Time.news – Wreaths of flowers and the Torino Calcio shirt, the birthplace of Gianni Minà. The funeral home for the journalist who died in Rome on Monday has opened in the Campidoglio. To welcome the coffin, the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, the councilor for culture Miguel Gotor, his wife Loredana Macchietti and their two daughters Francesca and Paola, together with Marianna born from Minà’s first marriage. Among those present at the time of arrival were also Don Luigi Ciotti, Sigfrido Ranucci, Andrea Purgatori, Franco Carraro, the president of the Anpi Gianfranco Pagliarulo.
© a great of culture and journalism
In the funeral home set up in the Campidoglio, a projected photo depicting Minà smiling with her hand resting on a newspaper, there has been a constant flow of friends since this morning. Having become famous for his interviews with Maradona, Fidel Castro, Mohamed Ali, but also for his reports, Mina ‘was able to impress his own style in journalism, becoming “a master” for many who came to greet him today.
The memory of the mayor of Rome
“He was an extraordinary journalist and television author. An author of memorable pages of journalism, a personality recognized throughout the world. I think one of the greatest journalists that Italy has ever had, who was able to interpret his profession in a vigorous and committed way. He was the protagonist and witness of fundamental pages of the history of the 1900s and of more recent political history. He went to Latin America, he was engaged in many battles for rights and freedom. In short, something more than a journalist”, said Roberto Gualtieri.
“An extraordinary personality and also a very sweet person – he recalled -. A person with a huge heart who has put all his commitment, his passion and his rigor to make the profession of journalism noble and to write important pages of the culture of our country. A protagonist of the cultural, civil and democratic life of Italy and of the world, there are today countries and continents that remember and mourn him”.
The memory of the 1982 World Champions
“The best way to keep friends is to keep them in your heart.” This is how the Azzurri of the World Cup in Spain remember him through a post on Instagram. “Hello Gianni – we read on the profiles of Bruno Conti, Beppe Bergomi, Antonio Cabrini, Franco Causio – great journalist, writer, conductor but above all friend. We will miss you. The 1982 world champions”. Causio, in addition to publishing a photo of the journalist, also adds another that portrays him with Minà in the center and, among others, with Francesco Graziani, Antonio Cabrini and Bruno Conti.