Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German journalist Giuliana Sgrena.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Giuliana Sgrena is an Italian journalist who works for the Italian communist newspaper il manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on 4 February 2005. After her release on 4 March, Sgrena and the two Italian intelligence officers who had helped secure her release came under fire from U.S. forces while on their way to Baghdad International Airport. Nicola Calipari, a major general in the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service was killed, and Sgrena and one other officer were wounded in the incident. The event caused an international outcry.
I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.
How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.
I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.
One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.