Kinshasa, 24 February, 2021 / 5:55 pm (ACI Africa).
The death of Luca Attanasio, the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who was killed in an ambush on a United Nations convoy in the Eastern part of the country has left missionaries who knew him with memories of a diplomat who worked tirelessly to support their apostolate.
In a Tuesday, February 23 report, the head of the Salesian mission VIS (International Volunteering for Development) in DRC, Monica Corna, says that Attanasio was close to the missionaries serving in the East of the Central African nation.
“Luca Attanasio was well known to the missionary community of North Kivu,” Monica says in the Tuesday report by Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Vatican's Propaganda Fide.
The volunteer who, for the last 18 years, has been working with the VIS at the Don Bosco Center in Goma, capital of the Eastern Congolese Province adds, in reference to the slain diplomat, “he was surely a very enthusiastic person who believed in what he was doing.”
Italian policeman Vittorio Iacovacci, the Congolese driver Mustafa Milambo and a few other people also died in the Monday, February 22 ambush.