The Lanzarote journalist Antonio Coll González passed away this Friday morning at the age of 71 due to an illness.
Antonio Coll was one of the historical journalists of the island. He graduated in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1975-1980), was a correspondent in Lanzarote for different newspapers such as El Eco de Canarias de Las Palmas, Canarias 7, El Día de Tenerife and a collaborator of Antena, La Isla, Diario de Las Palmas and Radio Popular de Las Palmas. In addition, in his beginnings he also worked at Radio Lanzarote.
The journalist and businessman Antonio Coll founded the Lancelot weekly in the 80s together with Andrés Pallarés, who also worked in the chain, and Aureliano Montero, a former colleague from Radio Lanzarote. In addition, Coll also created the Lancelot publishing house, together with his brothers, and managed to exploit several radio licenses, giving rise to the current Lancelot Group.
More recently, Antonio Coll held the position of president of the Lancelot Editorial group and also director of the Lancelot Radio weekly and the Lancelot digital newspaper.
The wake will take place at 12.30 pm at the Alianza facilities, in Arrecife, this Friday.
Condolences from the Cabildo of Lanzarote
The Cabildo of Lanzarote conveys its most "profound" condolences for the death of the founder of the Semanario Lancelot, Antonio Coll. The renowned Lanzarote journalist and businessman passed away in the early hours of this Friday, June 7, at the age of 71 after a long illness.
Oswaldo Betancort also wanted to convey his most sincere condolences to his family and friends for this sad loss. "Antonio Coll has been a benchmark in the world of communication, not only in Lanzarote but also in the Canary Islands, since he was the founder, in the eighties, of the Lancelot weekly that over the years became the most important media group created on our island and that, at the beginning of 2000, came to have up to thirty workers and collaborators on staff".
"Thanks to that great work", adds Betancort, "Antonio Coll, who has dedicated his whole life to his profession, has been an example of the values of a family business that continued to bet on modernization and new technologies and that today has become the multimedia group Lancelot Medios. Antonio Coll is leaving, but his important journalistic legacy remains and above all the possibility of seeing his dream fulfilled that Lanzarote, the third island of the Canary Islands in economic and social importance, would have its own worthy media that would create insular public opinion".
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, conveys the condolences of the Municipal Corporation to the Coll González family, and to all the workers of the Lancelot journalistic group, for the death of its promoter and creator, the journalist Antonio Coll.
The words of the Arrecife City Council for the death
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, recalled that the Coll González family is very united to the commercial, salt, public and entrepreneurial history of Arrecife. Antonio Coll, a member of a large and well-known family in our society. The original Coll family, since its establishment in the Port of Arrecife, has always been very united to the progress of the island, from the different projects they undertook. Antonio Coll González was a promoter, together with other journalists, of the creation of the Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Press Association, and co-president of several entities linked to the culture and external projection of Lanzarote.
The mayor of Arrecife, on behalf of the Municipal Corporation, conveys condolences to the Coll González family and to all the professionals of the media of this conejero group. His funeral will be tomorrow Saturday, at 12.30 hours, from the Tanatorio Alianza Canaria, in Arrecife.
Coalición Canaria (CC) Lanzarote also expresses its condolences to family and friends of the journalist Antonio Coll.
CC also regrets the death
The general secretary of CC in Lanzarote and La Graciosa and Minister of Universities, Science, Innovation, Culture and Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands, Migdalia Machín, regrets this loss on behalf of the nationalist formation.
"The figure of Antonio Coll is engraved in the history of our two islands because his professional and business work has been fundamental so that the feeling of the public opinion of Lanzarote and Graciosa was taken into account in the whole Archipelago".
