Tg3 crew attacked in Lebanon: driver dies of heart attack. Neapolitan operator Marco Nicois unharmed

A Tg3 crew was attacked in Lebanon, near Sidon. The local driver had a heart attack and died.

This was reported by Tg3 in the 12 o'clock edition, reporting the story of the correspondent Lucia Goracci, present on the spot together with the Neapolitan operator Marco Nicois, who states that first an armed man and then a group of people approached and began to threaten the journalists.

At that point the driver became ill and died despite cardiac massage. The fixer had reported the presence of the journalists to Hezbollah.

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“In expressing condemnation and outrage for the attack on the Tg3 crew in Lebanon, Rai expresses closeness and support to the family of Ahmad Akil Hamzeh, the driver who died of a heart attack during the attack, and confirms that it has implemented all security measures for our journalist Lucia Goracci engaged with her crew in an extraordinary work of documentation of the ongoing war”. Thus a note from viale Mazzini.

Lucia Goracci's story

“It was 9 o'clock this morning – the journalist Lucia Goracci, sent to the field in Lebanon together with the operator Marco Nicois, reported live, they remained unharmed – and we were filming in Jiyeh, where our stringer had alerted local Hezbollah to our presence.

We were working without any problems, people were talking to us. Then a man appeared, went towards Nicois and tried to snatch the camera from him. We got back in the car ready to leave quickly, but other men arrived and started pushing us and the car.

The man from before tried to throw a big stone at us. There were those who held him back and those who urged him on. We drove away quickly, in the car, it seemed like they were chasing us. When Ahmad stopped at a gas station now outside Ghazieh, the man came at us, snatched the keys from Ahmad, tried to break Marco's camera by climbing in through the open windows, while no one came to help us".

“When Ahmad tried to calm him down by getting out of the car,” Goracci continues, “that’s when he collapsed to the ground. We immediately called for help, the ambulance arrived, we followed it. Unfortunately, when we reached it, they told us that he was dead after long attempts to revive him.”

The crew proceeded with all the permits in order from the local authorities. The attackers allegedly chased the correspondents' car on a motorbike