Overview

• Reporter Chiara Giannini and a Porta a Porta crew were targeted with stones and glass bottles near Padua’s central station late on September 24 while filming a segment on youth gangs.
• Giannini was struck in the leg by a stone as the team retreated, and the crew immediately alerted law enforcement.
• Rai condemned the assault as unacceptable and expressed solidarity with the journalists, framing the incident as an attack on the public’s right to information.
• Veneto President Luca Zaia, parliamentary figures from Fratelli d’Italia and the Partito Democratico, and the Usigrai union demanded accountability and stronger safety measures for field reporting.
• The program posted footage of the incident on social media, and the full report aired on Rai1 on September 25, with additional segments examining the phenomenon in Naples and Milan.