Rome: in memory of Nicola Calipari
It took place this morning at the police headquarters of Rome a ceremony in memory of Nicola Calipari, police officer and secret service agent from 2002 to 2005. In front of the bronze bas-relief depicting the heroic policeman, the commissioner of Rome Mario Della Cioppa placed a laurel wreath, in the name of the head of the Police Lamberto Giannini.
A sober ceremony, 17 years after the sad end of an Italian intelligence operation in Baghdad (Iraq) for the release of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena. She had been kidnapped by a criminal gang and freed thanks to an operation carried out by the Italian intelligence services. On the way to the airport, the car in which the journalist and the Official were traveling was subjected to machine gun shots at a US checkpoint; Calipari shielded the woman with his body and was killed.
The professionalism and humanity with which he has always carried out his work is alive in the memory of all those who knew and loved him.
Nicola Calipari, awarded the gold medal for military valor, was an official of the State Police for over 20 years; He entered the police force in 1979 and was assigned, as his first assignment, to the mobile squad of the Genoa police headquarters, then to that of Cosenza and subsequently to the Rome police headquarters.
From 1993 he became deputy director of the Mobile Squad of Rome and then passed to the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police; in 2002 he passed to the Presidency of the Council of Ministries.