Mourning in the world of journalism. This morning, after a brief and fulminant illness, Andrea Purgatori died in Rome. Known face of La7 with his "Atlantis", also screenwriter, actor and author, he was 70 years old. In his long career, he had worked at the Corriere della Sera, following with great attention the case of the plane crash known as the Ustica massacre, one of the opaquest cases in the history of Italy, called "rubber wall" to describe the wall of silence. For the Via Solferino newspaper he had dealt with cases of terrorism or related to intelligence, investigating the Italian mysteries. He had long been president of Greenpeace Italy and was a member of the Italian Film Academy and the European Film Academy; President of the Giornate degli Autori, since 2015 he was also a member of the Management Board of the SIAE. From the 2017-18 television season it was broadcast on LA7 with the new edition of "Atlantide", for which it had received the Flaiano Award 2019 as best cultural program. Last fall he was one of the protagonists of the Netflix docu-series "Vatican Girl: the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.”