During this time he was also a member of the Journalist order of Trieste and cooperated with the Dissenso, the official journal of the Youth Front.
It has been reported that, his political passion started one day during one of his early reportages, when he was around with his camera taking pictures of a demonstration.
At the Police charge of the demonstrators he was forced to run, seeking refuge inside the MSI seat of Trieste, in Via Paduina.
Following the reorganization of the Italian dockyard system, the C.I.P.E, or (Commissione Interministeriale per la Programmazione Economica) (Economical Planning Interdepartmental Committee) decided the grouping of the Cantieri Riuniti Adriatico of Trieste and Monfalcone ("United Shipbuilders of the Adriatic") into one company, and set its new headquarters in Genoa.
On 19 May 1987 in Mozambique, while witnessing a battle between “Renamo’s” militiamen and the regular Army, Grilz was struck by a stray bullet in the head.
The news of Almerigo Griltz's death, due to the prejudice, did not echo loudly in the Italian press world.
An exception was Tg Uno which, thanks to Paolo Frajese, remembered Grilz even against the opinion of directors; Renato Farina, a writer for the weekly magazine “Il Sabato”, and Ettore Mo, also a special correspondent in the hot spots for the major Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” and a fellow journalist who went to various world hot spots, remembered the death and life of Almerigo Grilz.
The name of Almerigo Grilz has been immortalized on the “Reporters sans frontiers " Monument in Normandy, dedicated to all the fallen war journalists.
In 2002 Micalessin, a co-founder with Griltz of the Press Agency Albatros, longed to see the place where Grilz lived his last moments.
Being also keen to know the whereabouts of his remains, he realized a TV Documentary in which he included the last scenes shot by Grilz just before his death.