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(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 21 - The leaders of Italy's two biggest
opposition parties, Elly Schlein.of the Democratic Party and
ex-premier Giuseppe Conte of the 5-Star Movement (M5S),
expressed dismay and demanded a response from the government on
Sunday after a reporter for daily newspaper La Stampa, Andrea
Joly, was attacked by far-right militants overnight.
"I express my solidarity and closeness with Andrea Joly, a
journalist for La Stampa, who was attacked and beaten by
CasaPound militants in Turin last night, just for having filmed
them on his mobile phone while they were celebrating their
anniversary outside a club," Schlein said.
"But I also express great concern about the climate of impunity
that we continue to see in the face of such serious episodes:
what more must we wait for neo-fascist organisations to be
disbanded, as the Constitution says?
"We ask Premier Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo
Piantedosi to intervene immediately". (ANSA).