Overview
- Journalist Giulia Sorrentino was insulted and surrounded while covering a pro‑Palestinian demonstration in via Padova, where organizers demanded the release of Mohammad Hannoun.
- Video published by Il Giornale shows a protester with a megaphone shouting “fuori i sionisti dal corteo” as Sorrentino identifies herself as a reporter on assignment.
- Police and fellow journalists at the scene expressed immediate solidarity, according to the accounts published after the incident.
- Senate president Ignazio La Russa and other center‑right politicians condemned the intimidation and urged investigators to identify those responsible.
- Hannoun is in custody following a Genoa investigation into alleged terrorism financing, and about a thousand people marched in Milan to denounce the arrests and transfers to high‑security prisons.