“You have little time left” said an anonymous note sent to Paolo Borrometi in Sicilian dialect. Borrometi commented: “The threats are serious but I’m a journalist and I go on”. On the 22nd January 2019, in Rome, the journalist Paolo Borrometi received a letter threatening death and immediately reported the matter to the Carabinieri. The […]
Edoardo Stoppa had gone to the home of a man suspected of poisoning cats who first called the police and then attacked him. Whilst preparing an item in Battipaglia (Salerno) to be broadcast, the correspondent of Striscia la Notizia, Edoardo Stoppa, and his crew were threatened with a knife by a man to whom they […]
The general prosecutor of La Spezia has dismissed the lawsuit by the former administrator of ATC against the journalist Gabriele Cocchi who was assisted by Ossigeno The year has begun well for our legal aid service dedicated to journalists who are victims of reckless lawsuits. The Judge for the Preliminary Investigations of La Spezia Dr. […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sasha Biazzo is the author of an investigation into waste disposal survey after which entrepreneurs and administrators left their positions. On the 5th December 2018, unknown individuals entered the home of Sasha Biazzo, a Fanpage journalist. They stole a personal computer, two mobile phones and a rucksack that contained a clock and a security token […]
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 […]
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 […]