Cecchettin was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in northern Italy, a murder case that quickly turned into a political movement. The supposed motive is chilling in what it says about the current state of male-dominated society.
Author: Annalisa Camilli
Annalisa Camilli is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Italian magazine Internazionale since 2007, and reported for the Associated Press Tv in Rome as a freelancer since 2008. She focuses in particular on immigration, human rights and inequality. She is the author of La Legge Del Mare.
An interview with Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone, whose movie Me Captain is nominated for an Oscar, after he won the Silver Lion for directing at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. The tale centers around the life-and-death quest of migration, a topic that remains at the center of debate in Italy — and beyond.
Since 2015, Europe’s strategy to stop irregular migration has focused on arresting so-called smugglers. But those steering the vessels are usually desperate migrants themselves, forced to take the helm.