Italie - Italian authorities urged to give journalists more protection

Reporters sans frontières

Reporters Without Borders calls for better protection of journalists in Italy, where two journalists covering sensitive stories have been the targets of a disturbing attack or threat in recent weeks. Despite having police protection, Mimmo Carrieri was attacked on 5 July while Nello Trocchia is still awaiting police protection although he was threatened by the Camorra (the Naples-based crime syndicate) in early June. An environmentalist who reports for the online newspaper Viv@voce, (...)

© Reporters without borders - Wednesday, July 29, 2015