Gabriele Torsello

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gabriele Torsello
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Aug 12, 1970(1970-08-12)
Age	54
Birthplace	Alessano
Country	Italy
Birth City	Apulia
Horoscope	Leo

Gabriele Torsello Biography

Gabriele Torsello is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on August 12, 1970 in Alessano, Apulia, Italy. Gabriele Torsello (also known as “Kash”; born 12 August 1970) is an Italian freelance journalist and photographer located in London who was kidnapped in Helmand Province in Afghanistan on the 12th of October, 2006. Torsello is who is a Muslim converted, was freed on the 3rd of November, 2006. He is the author of The Heart of Kashmir.

The director for the department of Emergency, Gino Strada, is quoted as saying the Italian government gave the sum of $2 million to Rahmatullah Hanefi who is the Afghan director of the hospital in Helmand in order to ensure that Torsello was released. Torsello. In a hostage negotiations on April 7, for to release Daniele Mastrogiacomo who was his Italian la Repubblica Foreign reporter, as well as his driver and interpreter Hanefi was detained and placed in the jail within Kabul by Afghan Hamid Karzai’s government who claimed that Hanefi participated in the arrest of Mastrogiacomo by the Taleban. Italian deputy foreign minister Ugo Intini confirmed his government’s decision to release five Taleban prisoners. Afghan government has released five Taleban prisoners in exchange for the release of Mastrogiacomo.

Torsello was kidnapped in Helmand on the 12th of October, 2006, and was released on 3 November 2006. He was traveling on a bus that was taking him from Helmand in the direction of Kandahar in the southern part of Afghanistan in southern Afghanistan when he became detained. The translator Ghulam Mohammad was left unharmed.

Gabriele Torsello Net Worth

Gabriele Torsello is one of the richest Photographer from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gabriele Torsello 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

A press release by Reporters Without Borders quoted Mullah Dadullah an Afghan Taleban chieftain of the military, who threatened on September 4, 2006, to murder journalists who reported on news sent out by NATO force in Afghanistan and said “We have an Islamic right to kill such reporters.” But a subsequent report mentions an official Taleban spokesperson, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, saying to an Afghan newspaper Pajhwok that kidnappers must “free their hostage because it is not fair to hit at Italy by killing an innocent journalist.” He also said the following “the kidnappers are just bandits interested in money.” Reporters Without Borders suggest that their initial demands could have been a method to introduce a ransom demand. It is possible that Taleban release statements like this to suggest kidnappings are to be a matter of politics, rather than a means of revenue generation. To make it appear more complicated the captors are reported to have called Emergency and demanded to be released in exchange Torsello to returned back to Afghanistan of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan citizen who made the decision to convert to Christianity and fled to Italy following his sentence to execution in. In addition the Italian news agency AGI on October 20, 2006 quoted Torsello as saying under pressure, “The kidnappers frequently tell me that I am a spy and that British troops bombed Musa Qala and Nawzad districts on my intelligence” however, the abductors, in contrast to previous assertions, have distanced them from Taleban and claimed they were Muslims fighting against foreign occupation in the war-ravaged country.

Based on the BBC and the consolidated media reports posted on the National Union of Journalists Photographers blog Torsello phoned on October 12, 06 to the medical director in Lashkar Gah confirming that he was kidnapped and that he was not aware of what was happening to him. He demanded that the director explain those who kidnapped him that he was an authentic photographer and not an informer. The call was disconnected, however it was possible several occasions thereafter to get in touch with the Italian organization Emergency that managed the hospital.

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Gabriele Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Gabriele Torsello celebrates birthday on August 12 of every year.