Vittorio Arrigoni
- March 10, 2024
- Italian Reporter
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Vittorio Arrigoni Biography
| Birthday | Feb 4 |
| Birth Year | 1975 |
| Place Of Birth | Lombardy |
Vittorio Arrigoni is one of the most popular and richest Italian reporter who was born on February 4, 1975 in Besana in Brianza, Italy. As of June 1, 2023, Vittorio Arrigoni has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Arrigoni was kidnapped on 14 April 2011. In a video posted on YouTube in which they identified themselves as belonging to a previously unknown group, “The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima,” Arrigoni was blindfolded with blood seen around his right eye. The captors demanded the release of their leader Walid al-Maqdasi, imprisoned by the de facto government in Gaza a month earlier, as a ransom and threatened Arrigoni’s killing if a 30-hour deadline was not met. The captors accused Arrigoni of “spreading corruption” and his home country Italy as an “infidel state.”
Arrigoni was born in the town of Besana in Brianza, near Monza, on 4 February
- He claimed that it was in his blood to fight for freedom as his grandfathers fought against the former fascist regime in Italy. He had the Arabic word for resistance (muqawama) tattooed on his right arm. Once he passed his high school exams in Italy, he left his hometown of Bulciago, a small village near lake Como, and began working as a volunteer around the world (East Europe, South America, Africa and Middle East). In 2002, he visited Jerusalem which according to his mother was the “moment he understood his work would be concentrated there.” His mother, Egidia Beretta, is the mayor of Bulciago.
He returned to Gaza prior to the Israeli military offensive Operation Cast Lead, which lasted from December 2008 to January 2009. Arrigoni was one of the few foreign journalists in Gaza during the war; he worked with Radio Popolare and as reporter for the Italian newspaper Il manifesto. He later published a book, Restiamo umani (en: Gaza, Stay Human), a collection of his reportage from Gaza. It is translated into English, Spanish, German, and French with a preface by Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
Arrigoni was credited as one of the many activists who revived the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian group that works in the Palestinian territories. In August 2008, he participated in the Free Gaza mission that aimed to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, in place since June 2007 when Hamas took power in the territory. He was on the first boat that arrived in the Port of Gaza, describing that moment as “one of the happiest and most emotional” of his lifetime.” While volunteering to act as a human shield for a Palestinian fisherman off Gaza’s coast in September 2008, Arrigoni was injured by flying glass after the Israeli Navy used a water cannon to deter the vessel. In November, he was arrested by Israeli authorities after again acting as a human shield for fishermen off Gaza’s coast.
Vittorio Arrigoni Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Italian reporter |
| House | Living in own house. |
Vittorio Arrigoni is one of the richest Italian reporter from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vittorio Arrigoni 's net worth $5 Million.
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Ranked on the list of most popular Italian reporter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Vittorio Arrigoni celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.