Antonio and Bartek

(B2) The press room in Brussels paid tribute this afternoon with a minute of silence to the Italian journalist Antonio Megalizzi (28 years old) and his friend and colleague Barto (Bartek) Pedro Orent-Niedzielski (35 years old), from Strasbourg Polish, both killed in theStrasbourg attack Tuesday (December 11), which left three more dead and 11 injured

« Antonio and Bartek, would never have shared the ideas of those who want to close the borders and turn Europe into a fortress, we see it when we read their profile on facebook first indicated on behalf of the international press association, Renzo Consoli. Then he read the message that the Europhonica colleagues had written.

“Antonio and Bartek, although very different, were very similar people. Bartek could espouse any cause with a passion that sparked people's interest, or at least curiosity, about what was going on in the world. Antonio had a natural talent: to explain in a simple and clear way one of the most difficult things in the world, the European Union. He had a democratically pop approach. And he also used it by patiently and meticulously dismantling all false information and negative myths about the European institutions. »

“These two were there, at every plenary session in Strasbourg, doing their job, just like all of you. And they wanted to do it all their life. Because, as Antonio always told us: it's the most beautiful job in the world. »

“Antonio and Bartek had the skill, the passion to talk for hours about any European topic, how to communicate it and understand it thoroughly. Bartek denounced the injustices of the world and Antonio thought about how to concretely solve the problems. Starting from two different visions, they came to the same conclusion: to understand, to relate, to love the European Union. And they would have liked to do it, even today, here with all of you. »

(words collected by NGV with Capucine Allais, st.)