Protests against the government’s strategy to extend the Green Pass obligation to contain Covid infections have recorded episodes of violence against doctors and journalists. A note from the Ministry of the Interior highlighted that the Interior Ministry will always ensure the freedom to demonstrate peacefully in compliance with the rules but acts of violence and threats will not be allowed. The commitment of the police forces who are at work every day to ensure control of the territory, public order and investigative activity to identify those who join the street demonstrations with acts of violence and intolerance is great ”.
The infectious specialist Bassetti chased and threatened by a no vax
“I ask for the protection of the state against people who threaten, I would like the state to punish these people. I don’t want stocks, I want the state to punish the people they threaten, “said Matteo Bassetti, director of the infectious disease clinic at the San Martino hospital in Genoa, chased and threatened by a 46-year-old no vax who yelled at him:” you will kill us all with these vaccines, we will make you pay for it ». The virologist was returning home and was with his children and his wife, who were upset by what had happened. “I have been threatened since December, since the vaccine came out – said Bassetti -: first anonymous letters, then threats by phone in the clinic and at my wife’s hotel, it’s a continuous”. The attacker was identified and reported by the police for serious threats.
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No green pass, journalist attacked in Rome
A videomaker journalist of the Gedi group, Francesco Giovannetti, was instead attacked while following the No Green Pass demonstration, which was held in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education in Rome. He was trying to interview some of the attendees so that he could voice the protest. The journalist was attacked by a protester. “A few minutes before the formal start of the sit-in, a man hit me in the face with 4-5 punches to the face after threatening me, mimicking the gesture of slaughtering my throat and told me ‘I’ll cut your throat if you don’t go away’ ”” Giovannetti reported on the Repubblica website. The protester was identified by the State Police and was taken to the police station while the journalist is in the green code hospital for checks.
Lamorgese convenes anti-intimidation observatory against journalists
The Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, will meet in the next few days the Coordination Center for monitoring, analysis and exchange of information on the phenomenon of intimidating acts against journalists. The convocation – explains the Interior Ministry – also aims to analyze the recent episodes of intolerance and violence that have affected, among others, some reporters during the protests against the anti Covid measures taken by the Government. The Interior Ministry will ensure, as always, the freedom to demonstrate peacefully in compliance with the rules but acts of violence and threats will not be allowed. The commitment of the police forces who are at work every day to ensure control of the territory, public order and investigative activity to identify those who join the street demonstrations with acts of violence and intolerance is great.
Green pass, Lega: wrong violence. Solidarity with victims of aggression
«Backing one’s reasons with violence is always wrong. Threats and assaults do not help to find the best solution. The League stigmatizes the gestures of intolerance of some no vax representatives and expresses its solidarity with the journalists and doctors attacked ». Thus the group leaders of the Chamber and Senate of the League, Riccardo Molinari and Massimiliano Romeo.