Toni Capuozzo has died at the age of 77. Tgcom 24 announced this, recalling that a few days ago the journalist had announced that he had cancer . An old-school professional, Capuozzo worked for a long time for the Mediaset publishing group, from Tg5 to Tg4 and Studio Aperto.
"I love privacy enough and find health gossip unbearable enough to make me say without hesitation: yes, I have cancer. I'll try to deal with it as best I can, with the help of doctors and many loved ones, both large and small. Among the things left unfinished are the bills for Alla's funeral. I unknowingly settled my life on Luca Zaia's podcast, Il Fienile," she announced on social media last October 23.
An old-school reporter, Capuozzo experienced the horrors of war first-hand several times .
Born in Friuli in 1948, after joining the PCI and Lotta Continua, he began his journalistic career in 1979, covering events in South America for Lotta Continua's daily newspaper. He soon moved on to the daily newspapers “Reporter” and “Panorama,” then, in the early 1990s, he moved to the Mediaset networks.
During those years, for Berlusconi's television, she covered the conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Yugoslavia. In Sarajevo, she recounted, she saved little Kemal, an eight-month-old baby mutilated and motherless after a Serbian attack . She managed to hide him under her bulletproof vest and bring him back to Italy, where she raised him for five years before returning him to her hometown at the end of the conflict. In 2004, during the Iraq war, she was part of the TG5 news crew that was kidnapped by Mahdist paramilitary troops near Najaf.
Among other things, he was deputy director of Tg5, author and host of the in-depth program “Terra”.
(Unioneonline)