MARILENA NATALE

“Woman Courage” award

To choose between life and truth, every single day, it takes courage. A lot of courage. But

Marilena Natale never lacked that, although she has been threatened with death, has never given up in telling the truth. That truth which, for many, is an inalienable right and which, for her, is the highest and absolute of duties. A mission she doesn't want to escape from, fighting in the land that is her home and which she would never abandon to flee elsewhere. And it is to heal that land and its people from their wounds that Marilena writes, asks, tells, reports.

Without surrendering to the terrible promises of the Casalesi and without letting the heart corrode with fear. Her uncomfortable investigations of the traffic of toxic materials, her fight against political corruption, her commitment to all those unfortunate children of “Terra dei Fuochi” who have inherited the most terrible inheritance: these are all ways of saying no to organised crime, making the truth, the only real light to follow in the dark of the night.