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
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.
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 […]
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
The court imposed this sentence for violence towards the journalist
Victims include Carlo Carillo, Mario De Michele, Antonio Loconte, Filippo Graziosi, Ferruccio Sansa, Marco Preve, Matteo Indice and Lucio Gambera.
A summary of violations of press freedom committed in Italy by threats, intimidations and abuse against journalists and other media workers.
The mobile police squad of Reggio Calabria insisted on the copy on the instruction of the Prosecutor – a practice at the limit of correctness
The businessman Paolo Berlusconi had asked for damages of 1.5 million euro. Instead the civil court of Rome has ruled that he will have to reimburse 20,000 euro of legal costs.
If journalists cannot work freely and safely it becomes more difficult to unearth human rights violations, corruption or misuse of power, Dunja Mijatovic says to Ossigeno