Congo, wife of Ambassador Luca Attanasio: “Someone who knew his whereabouts betrayed him, sold him”

“The only answer that I have given myself and that I can give is that someone who knew his whereabouts spoke, he has sold and betrayed“These are the first public words spoken by Zakia Seddiki, wife of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca attanasio, killed during what is believed to be a kidnapping attempt in southern Rubber, together with the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci and the driver of the convoy World Food Program with whom they traveled, Mustapha milambo. The woman, the day of state funeral for the two Italian victims of the ambush, spoke with Delivery courier remembering the day of the murder, she who was the last person to hear him on the phone before leaving for the area Virunga Park.

“We wrote Whatsapp – remembers his wife referring to the morning before the ambush – He always did. He sent me two photos in a matter of minutes. I was calmsmiling, he had no perception of danger. And like me too. Also in the last photo, that of the carabiniere Iacovacci. In the shot they smile and wave“.

The wife also traces moments of the life lived and also focuses on their first meeting, which took place when Athanasius was consul in Morocco, of the coexistence between two people of different religions, the Catholic and she Muslim, and of the education that they have decided to give their daughters. But when asked if he had any suspected On how the WFP convoy could have been ambushed, in an area where attacks against civilians and members of various organizations are frequent, he replied: “No, the investigations will determine what happened in the forest. In the last few hours events have overwhelmed me, the pain for me, for my broken family. The only answer that I have given myself, and that I can give, is that someone who knew his whereabouts spoke up, sold him and betrayed him. While I have lost the love of my life ”.