Bergamo. Sentenced the man who threatened journalist under police protection

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OSSIGENO July 4^th  2025 – On June 26^th  2025, the Bergamo Court sentenced Mauro Andrioli, a 60-year-old bodybuilder and security worker of Swiss origin living in Bussolengo (Verona), for threatening “La Repubblica” journalist Paolo Berizzi on social media for over a year. Berizzi was already under police protection due to threats from members of the Italian and European extreme-right.

Andrioli will serve 22 months in prison, with no suspended sentence due to previous convictions, and will pay €10,000 in compensation to the journalist and €3,000 to FNSI (the Italian National Press Federation), which also joined the civil action against him. Prosecutor Emanuele Marchisio had requested a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

THE THREATS – “Your days are numbered… When they take away your security escort, we’ll see each other… You’ll be pulverized and set on fire… against you weapons and a hard fist are needed … You need to be scarred… a vigilante group  will make you pay”: these are some of the constant attacks Andrioli directed at Berizzi on social media between 2020 and 2021, following the journalist’s highly critical articles on the establishment of citizen vigilante groups  to protect against crime.

According to the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office, it was a veritable “torrent of hate .” 

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