The Report crew was attacked with an iron rod. It happened in Monzambano, in the province of Mantua, around 3:00 PM on Wednesday, March 18, at the Mario Troni slaughterhouse.
Journalist and host of the program Sigfrido Ranucci made the announcement in a post on social media.
"Giulia Innocenzi," Ranucci explains, "had just finished questioning the owner, Raoul Troni, and together with videographer Giovanni De Faveri, she went to the back of the slaughterhouse, where the cows were being unloaded from the truck onto the slaughter line. While the videographer was filming outside the gate, an unidentified person from inside the slaughterhouse struck him with an iron stick, hitting the video camera, which broke in two, and the lens fell to the ground . Innocenzi and De Faveri immediately went to the Carabinieri station in Monzambano to file a complaint. A patrol immediately went to the slaughterhouse and carried out investigations."
The Unirai union, independent journalists at Rai, " condemns the latest attack on a Rai crew and expresses solidarity with colleagues Giulia Innocenzi and Giovanni De Faveri, reporting for the program Report , who were violently prevented from working on an investigation into a slaughterhouse in the Mantua area. A person, promptly identified by the Carabinieri, destroyed the camera with a stick." " Despite respecting all regulations, particularly those regarding property and privacy, and taking every necessary precaution, our work too often places us in risky situations . Unirai condemns these violent and frequent restrictions on the right and duty to inform," the union concludes, "and expresses its encouragement to our colleagues who fortunately remained unharmed."
(Unioneonline)