Today the Italian EUFOR and NATO contingent remembered four Italian Airforce soldiers of the G-222 airplane “Lyra 34”. A wreath was laid by the Italian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Ruggero Corrias.

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Lieutenant Colonel Marco Betti, Lieutenant Marco Rigliaco, Warrant Officer Giuseppe Buttaglieri and Warrant Officer Giuliano Velardi lost their lives on the 3rd of September 1992 whilst serving the UN humanitarian relief operation when their transport plane was hit by two ground-air missiles.
The simple and moving remembrance ceremony took place at the memorial stone on Zec mountain some 40 km north-west of Sarajevo.