Francesca Albanese

My life was calm.

I wouldn't say ordinary because I don't know what ordinary is.

But I was, I mean, I was with my family.

I had started lecturing in various... This is Francesca Albanese.

When I started this position, I was full of good intentions, which I still have, but I was so naive.

I really thought that member states didn't know enough, didn't understand enough, or were animated by good intentions.

And then my life has been completely turned upside down ever since.

To be vilified, mistreated, for standing side by side with those who are invisibilized and silenced, it's awful.

I am no one.

I'm just a Ligan expert who has studied and lived in Palestine and has written boring academic research about Palestinian forced displacement.

And then, during my mandate, awful crimes start to happen.

What shall I do?

I just tell what I see, the way I see it.

Yeah, the impact is severe.

The impact is severe.

It equates to a civil death.

I cannot perform transaction.

I cannot make payments.

I cannot receive payments through financial transactions.

So I cannot have a bank account.