Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by public (non online)

Video journalist threatened and attack by anti-COVID lockdown protesters in Italy

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Valerio Lo Muzio, a video journalist working for la Repubblica newspaper was threatened, pushed and chased by unidentified individuals as he covered a protest in Bologna against the Italian government’s latest COVID-19 measures. As he filmed, many of the masked protesters began swearing and shouting at him, with some calling him a “terrorist journalist”.

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