A Calabrian town has honoured a local
man who saved hundreds of Italians from the Argentine junta in
the 1970 and 80s.
Filippo Di Benedetto, a Communist union organizer, defied the
military regime to forge passports and give plane tickets to
Italian targets of the bloody junta that ruled the South
American country, leaving thousands of 'disappeared'.
Now his home town of Saracena near Reggio Calabria has named a
street after him.
"His story is like that of German businessman Oskar Schindler
told in the Steven Spielberg film, Schindler's list, and albeit
less known it has the same quality of heroism in helping save
many human lives in the years of the dictatorship in Argentina,"
said the Saracea town council.
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