SALVATORE GARZILLO
SALVATORE GARZILLO
Biography:
Salvatore Garzillo (Naples, 1987) is a freelance journalist. He began working as a reporter in Naples and since 2011, has been covering crime news for ANSA in Milan.
He has followed the main criminal cases of the last 15 years and has produced reportages (illustrated by himself) from Afghanistan, Kosovo, Greece, Iraq, India, Brazil, and Ukraine (from 2014 onwards), published by both Italian and international media.
Specializing in undercover investigations, in 2019 he spent nearly 3 years infiltrating the far right to investigate connections between Freemasonry, neo-fascists, and Lega and Fratelli d’Italia political parties. His video investigation “Lobby Nera”, broadcast by La7 and Fanpage, received the “European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism Evolution 2021” and the “Premio Vergani – Cronista dell’Anno.” He is currently a correspondent for Mediaset.
He is the author of the Sky docuseries “La Mala - Banditi a Milano”, which, through interviews with key figures (including Renato Vallanzasca), chronicles the world of Milanese gangs. He is also the author of the book “Ultima Edizione - Storie nere dagli archivi de La Notte” and of “Milano: cronache di criminalità organizzata”, which is part of Il Corriere della Sera’s “Mafie” series.
In 2025, he conceived the exhibition “De bello - Notes on War and Peace” at Gres Art 671 in Bergamo, a collective featuring 37 international artists (including Marina Abramovic, Alberto Burri, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, and Monira Al Qadiri). The exhibition also featured drawings he created during his months as a correspondent in Ukraine in 2022, some colored with local soil.
He always carries two pens and draws on anything, even receipts. His best sketches are in the notebook he takes to police stations, crime scenes, and courtrooms, on top of dense pages of notes about the cases he follows daily. The essence of his graphic journalism work is captured in “Il giro di nera”, a column in which he documents and illustrates firsthand crime stories, later adapted into a live performance in the innovative format of “stand-up tragedy.”
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