Overview
- Mohammad Hannoun, head of the Associazione Palestinesi in Italia, was stopped at Linate airport and notified of a one-year foglio di via barring him from entering Milan.
- The Questura and Digos cited statements he made at a pro-Palestinian rally on October 18, including lines reported as endorsing executions, which were livestreamed on Facebook.
- A communication alleging instigation to crime has been filed with the Milan prosecutor, who will decide whether to open a formal case.
- Hannoun called the move an aggression and returned to Genoa; the measure was signed by Milan’s police chief Bruno Megale and follows a six-month city ban issued in November 2024.
- Government figures on the right praised the action and some urged his expulsion from Italy, while API condemned the ban as an unjust attempt to intimidate dissent.