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full screen The beating of a journalist in Turin is the second violent incident in a short time in Italy that attracted a lot of attention. Archive image. Photo: Luca Bruno/AP/TT
Italian politicians are reacting with outrage over a video showing a journalist being attacked by suspected neo-fascists in Turin.
The reporter, who works for the daily newspaper La Stampa, came across a crowd on Saturday night while walking along a street in the city. It turned out to be members of the neo-fascist organization Casa Pound gathered outside a room with smoke bombs and fireworks.
When the reporter started filming with his phone, a group of men who are heard on the video asking “are you one of us?”, before attacking the journalist, approached.
Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, who leads the far-right party Brothers of Italy, described the attack in a statement as “unacceptable” and added that she “hopes that the perpetrators will be identified as soon as possible.”
The leader of the social democratic opposition party PD, Elly Schlein, condemns what she describes as a “social climate of impunity”.
“What else is required for neo-fascist organizations to dissolve?” she asks herself.
In another high-profile incident of violence in recent days, two gay men were beaten by several people in Rome.
In a post on X, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani condemns “all forms of violence” and writes that there is “far too much violence and intolerance in Italy against those with whom one does not agree”.