Overview
- Francesca Del Vecchio says the Global Sumud Flotilla removed her for allegedly revealing “sensitive information” during training in Catania.
- She reports that participants were told to hand over phones and submit to searches, and that her passport was taken and later returned when she was escorted out of the port.
- Del Vecchio says she was removed from group chats, spoke with members identified as Simone and Maria Elena Delia, and was later denounced as “a dangerous journalist.”
- According to her account, other journalists attended the course with cameras and she was initially told she could write about it if she avoided details.
- Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani condemned the episode as censorship, and Global Movement to Gaza Italia said it will sue Il Tempo for defamation over separate reporting.