At yesterday’s Milan Pride, four journalists who covered the event reported having been harassed by a man who was not identified. Immediately before the press point of the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein, near the party wagon in via Vittor Pisani, the boy – according to the version of the reporters involved – approached the large group of journalists and TV operators, groping them and indulging in gestures even more explicit. The Democratic Party, which collaborated with journalists to recover any videos also shot from above the wagon, denied the hypothesis that the man belonged to the party’s security service and expressed closeness to the journalists through the Milanese and Lombardy secretariat.
Alongside those who report
“The Democratic Party, at every level, firmly condemns the incident and expresses its most sincere solidarity with the journalists – jointly declared the regional secretary of the Democratic Party of Lombardy Silvia Roggiani and the secretary of the Democratic Party of Milan Alessandro Capelli -. Having learned the news, we contacted the journalists involved to express our closeness and to shed light on this unacceptable and shameful affair. The man in question has nothing to do with the Democratic Party. We are working to ensure that this complaint does not end in nothing. We are all heartbroken, once again, for yet another episode of violence. We fight alongside those who report and against all forms of gender violence and sexual harassment”.
