The Città Metropolitana di Napoli assigned the Premio Papa Gentile alla Memoria to Giancarlo Siani in the second edition of Costruiamo Gentilezza, according to Il Mattino. The ceremony took place in the Salone degli Specchi of the historic Gran Caffè Gambrinus in Naples.
Paolo Siani collected the recognition on behalf of his brother, according to Il Mattino. Metropolitan deputy mayor Giuseppe Cirillo, Anna Vitiello and Renata Monda attended the ceremony.
The award presents Siani’s journalism as a form of “courageous kindness”: he denounced violence and injustice without resorting to hatred. The Fondazione Giancarlo Siani records that he was killed by the camorra in Naples on 23 September 1985, aged 26, leaving about 651 articles and investigations.
During the ceremony, the father of Annalisa Durante received a ceramic tile inscribed “‘A Madonna t’accumpagna”, according to Il Mattino.
