Protective vigilance has been arranged by the Prefect of the province of Avellino for the journalist Barbara Ciarcia, correspondent of “Il Mattino”. The Committee for the Order and Public Security of Avellino, on the proposal of the Prefect, has decided on Thursday the 11thApril 2019 to assign protection (a vigilance) to Barbara Ciarcia, journalist, correspondent of Il Mattino, […]
Giovanni Taormina had just interviewed a “repentant”of the “ndrangheheta and he has now been given “dynamic vigilance” protection. On the 12thApril 2019, the Udine Committee for Public Order and Security issued a protection measure (dynamic surveillance) for the journalist Giovanni Taormina, who works for the TgR RAI regional news service of Friuli Venezia Giulia. (see here) The […]
Valentino Gonzato (Il Giornale di Vicenza) was documenting the deterioration of the area after complaints from residents. The security committee has been convened to intensify on-the-spot checks Valentino Gonzato, a black journalist and editor of the Giornale di Vicenza, on the morning of the 2nd April 2019, around noon, was jostled and insulted by a group of […]
The prosecutor has already proposed dismissing the case. The case concerns disputed articles according to which the political leader asked migrants in for documents. The lawsuit for libel filed in 2018 by the local secretary of the Lega party, Nicola Lodi, against the online newspaper estense.com for the content of some articles, published in April 2018, […]
The reporter Vittorio Brumotti and his collaborators recorded also the negotiations for a pistol inside an antique shop. The correspondent from Striscia la NotiziaVittorio Brumotti was assaulted in Trani (Bari) on the 18th March 2019 whilst recording (see here) the sale of drugs inside an antique shop located in a street in the town centre. With the […]
Sued by a magistrate, journalists Lirio Abbate and the publisher L’Espresso were found guilty. The opinion of the lawyer Di Pietro: an evidential burden has been imposed. The journalist Lirio Abbate, deputy editor of the weekly L’Espressowas sentenced by the civil court of Rome to compensate a Roman magistrate, now retired, and an expert of the same […]
Floriana Bulfon reported the incident. The journalist collaborates with the L’Espresso and has been investigating for some time the Casamonica clan. In the late afternoon of the 8th April 2019, the journalist Floriana Bulfon, a collaborator with L’Espresso, found in her car, a bottle containing a reddish liquid that aroused her suspicions. The car had been parked for […]
He had just published two articles on a trial of the ‘ndrangheta clans of Cosenza. In 2014 he had suffered similar damage. On the 11thMarch 2019 in Paola, in the province of Cosenza, unknown persons set alight the car of the journalist Guido Scarpino from the Quotidiano del Sud newspaper. The car, as confirmed by […]
The testimony of the journalist from Bergamo at the Vienna conference with the participation of dozens of reporters under attack in various countries. NGOs from all over the world took part in the meeting on “Journalists under attack, a threat to press freedom” promoted by OSCE and hosted at the Hofburg in Vienna (
Ossigeno has identified and verified the threats against 13 of them. There are 51 confirmed episodes, with 98 verified victims, in the first 109 days of 2019. There are 25 journalists and bloggers who, according to the monitoring done by Ossigeno between the 5thand the 19thApril 2019, suffered intimidation and threats in Italy. For 13 of them […]