Overview

• Luca Zingaretti’s Instagram video on July 15 showed a politician’s wife bypassing the baggage queue at Fiumicino under guidance from her security detail.
• Reporters quickly identified the woman as Olga Sokhnenko, wife of Minister Adolfo Urso, raising scrutiny of VIP privileges at Italy’s busiest airport.
• Urso told Repubblica that his security team assessed the situation, he regrets any inconvenience, and emphasized it was not his personal decision to send his wife ahead.
• The minister said he accompanied his wife and their seven-year-old son to the airport but remained on an important phone call and did not notice the incident.
• The episode prompted tens of thousands of social media reactions and reignited demands for transparent rules on accelerated check-in for public officials and their families.