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Italian TG2 reporting crew threatened and robbed while covering Palermo protests

28.10.2020

Date:
28.10.2020
Number of cases:
2
Regions/Countries:
Europe: Italy
Alert types:
Verbal, online or physical attack: Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

A journalist and camera operator from Rai 2 news programme TG2 were intimidated and robbed of their journalistic equipment by black-clad men as they were covering anti-curfew protests in the Sicilian city of Palermo.

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