Figure and counter of the first channel for more than 40 years, Maurice Olivari died this Tuesday, February 13, 2024. In her 1 p.m. television news, this Tuesday, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau indeed told viewers the bad news.
“Our colleague Maurice Olivari has died. He should have celebrated his 77th birthday at the end of the month. Former correspondent for TF1 in Rome, he is a face, a voice, which will have left its mark on our network”she declared with a trembling voice while specifying that “this disappearance” saddened “the entire editorial staff”.
A correspondent in Italy for 20 years
A senior reporter, the man who left ORTF to join TF1 in 1976 very quickly became a correspondent for the channel in the four corners of the world. New York, Bangkok or even Hong Kong… after having multiplied the destinations, Maurice Olivari finally settled in Rome.
Correspondent of TF1 in Italy for more than 20 years and pillar of Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s 1 p.m. news, the one who told, with his hoarse voice, the daily life of our Italian neighbors was treated to a touching tape thus concluded by Marie -Sophie Lacarrau: “The entire TF1 editorial staff joins me and shares the pain and sorrow of their life.”
L.Z.