18 months detention for having threatened Paolo Borrometi
On Facebook he wrote that he would have eaten Borrometi’s heart. The reporter had exposed his dubious activity at the fruit and vegetable market of Vittoria.
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Ossigeno – BAD NEWS from Italy | 24 September 2018
We are back wih our updates on press and media freedom. Last news about violations of freedom of expression in Italy. Updates on impunity and upcoming International Day to End Impunity on October 22 October (Senate, Rome). Special report on Attilio Bolzoni’s case.
Seizure in Palermo. OSCE asks Italy to clarify about its lawfulness
The Representative on Freedom of the Media immediately reacted over the news on the seizure of journalist Salvo Palazzolo of La Repubblica’s mobile and computer by sending a formal inquiry to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moavero Milanesi
Ossigeno has identified a further 12 threats – 14th September 2018
The victims include the journalists Mimmo Rubio, Mario De Michele, Maria Teresa Carrozzo, Luigi Costanzo and Sara Lucaroni with other editorial staff of Avvenire, the blogger Mario Abenante and the author Leonardo Palmisano
Justice for Rocchelli. A fresh postponement of the trial in Pavia
The trial will resume on the 23rd November. In the meantime, Ukraine will be again notified of the request by the relatives of the Italian photo-journalist killed in Ukraine in 2014 for the trial details. There was tension outside the courtroom.
In depth articles of Ossigeno: The Attilio Bolzoni Case
The journalist of La Repubblica, Attilio Bolzoni, after his scoop about the ex-president of “Confindustria Sicily” (the regional branch of the Confederation of Italian Industries) Antonello Montante, has been the victim of threats, retaliation and stalking. A special dossier
They have isolated me, Bolzoni had told the Anti-Mafia
On the 2nd February 2016 a year after the publication of the scoop which had revealed that the industrialist Antonello Montante was under judicial investigation for Mafia activity, the journalist Attilio Bolzoni spoke at a hearing of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission chaired by the Hon.
“Shame” said Bolzoni after the arrest of Montante
On the 20th May 2018, on Radio CL1 (see here) a radio station of Caltanissetta, the journalist Attilio Bolzoni said, “Already three years ago, when I began to concern myself with the Montante Affair, I realised that it was a dirty foul-smelling story. And according to me it still wasn’t finished … certainly what developed […]
A public service interrupted by an attack on a TV journalist
Action taken by the general prosecutor against a man who in July 2017 at Vieste attacked the journalist Nello Trocchia who was broadcasting for Nemo
Syracuse: A sentence of 32 months for the threats to Borrometi
The court imposed this sentence for violence towards the journalist