Alberto Trentini Calls Home: "I Hope to Return to Italy Soon"

Alberto Trentini, the Italian humanitarian operator imprisoned in Venezuela for 181 days, telephoned home, where he hopes to return soon. This has been confirmed by sources of Palazzo Chigi, with...

Since he was detained in Venezuela, he had been unable to communicate with anyone.

Alberto Trentini is alive. He eats and takes his medicines. For the first time in 181 days of imprisonment in Venezuela, he was able to phone home and told the family his condition. "I hope to return soon," he said. Trentini's interview was not programmed but was somehow awaited by the government. At Republic, sources of Palazzo Chigi in fact relate the possibility of contacting family members with the diplomatic action of the executive towards …

The first call after 181 days of imprisonment is the result of the work of diplomatic mediation between the Italian government and that of Maduro

After 181 days of silence, Alberto Trentini was finally able to speak with his family. The Italian collaborator, detained in Venezuela on the charge of terrorism, deemed unfounded, phoned last night, reassuring on his condition: "I am well, I eat and take the prescribed medicines," said to his relatives. Farnesina expressed relief for the contact, defined "a step forward" by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli, who thanked Pr…

The Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal said on Friday that “some foreign prisoners” who are being held in a prison near Caracas have been able to talk to their families on the phone after “several months in solitary confinement and without knowing their whereabouts.” The president of the NGO, lawyer Alfredo Romero, said in X that this week “some foreign prisoners in Rodeo 1 (prison center), located in Miranda State (north), have…