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Threats signed with a swastika sent to the director and other journalists of La7 news programme

The anonymous letter was signed “Boia chi molla”. Besides Enrico Mentana, Floris, Formigli, Damilano, Gruber, Giannini and Fanuele were also insulted. On the 16th January 2019 the journalist Enrico Mentana, director of the Tg La7, announced that he had received a letter containing insults and threats against him and other journalists: Giovanni Floris, Corrado Formigli, […]

Defamation: Chief Editor and a journalist from Il Fatto Quotidiano are acquitted

The investigating magistrate found that Vincenzo Iurillo and Marco Travaglio exercised the right to criticize the municipal councillor Carmine Attanasio On December 18th 2018, the Court of Naples acquitted the journalists Marco Travaglio and Vincenzo Iurillo, chief editor and editor, respectively, of Il Fatto Quotidiano, of charges of defamation against Naples municipal councillor Carmine Attanasio. […]

In January 2019 Ossigeno has identified one threat a day

Rome, 23rd January 2019 – In the first fifteen days of 2019 Ossigeno per l’Informazione has identified and rigorously documented fifteen unjustifiable threats and intimidation directed to Italian journalists and bloggers in order to hinder the dissemination of news of public interest. In the same period, the Observatory also identified other thirteen intimidations deemed “very […]

The latest BAD NEWS from Italy by Ossigeno

We report on a lot of worrying Italian news of last weeks. Next time we will report on the alarming trend we have seen in Italy at the beginning of this new year that started with 15 fact-checked threats in the first 15 days of January = 10 years of Ossigeno on the Unexplored Continent […]

Bergamo. The protection measures for Paolo Berizzi are prolonged

In 2018 he suffered five threatening attacks, four during the presentation of his investigative book “NazItalia” on the far-right movements. The protection measures were extended for journalist Paolo Berizzi, a correspondent of La Repubblica, who lives in Bergamo and since 2017 has experienced various threats and intimidation, five alone in 2018. The threats began after […]

Genoa Bridge. Autostrade asks for 50 journalists to be investigated

This has been disclosed by Il Fatto Quotidiano. Among the journalists are Ferruccio Sansa, Matteo Preve and Matteo Indice. The Autostrade company considers it as just a request. On the 11th December 2018 the lawyers of the company Autostrade per l’Italia (Aspi) presented a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Genoa Office against persons unknown whom […]

Palermo: a lawsuit against Accursio Sabella for stalking has been dismissed

The journalist is chief editor of LiveSicilia. The investigating judge has considered groundless the accusation made by the director of the Federico II Foundation. On December 20th , 2018 – the judge for preliminary investigations of Palermo, Fabrizio Molinari has set aside the complaints, considering them unfounded, filed by the director of the Federico II […]