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Reporters in the police station at the Ultima Generation blitz, Angela Nittoli ad Business: “More than security, I felt monitored. They prevented me from working”
“I didn’t feel any safer. Indeed, I perceived it as a form of surveillance.” He tells it without rancor Affaritaliani.it Angela Nittoli, journalist of the Everyday occurrence who together with the Corriere della Sera photojournalist Massimo Barsoum, and the La7 journalist Roberto Di Matteo, was stopped by the police while on her way to cover the blitz of the Ultima Generazione activists in Rome. Despite showing professional badges and identity documents, the three were still taken to the Castro Pretorio police station, where they were held for an hour in a security room, with the door open.
“It had already happened to me that during demonstrations I was asked for my documents, and I handed over my journalist’s card for identification. But once it was exhibited and the appropriate checks were carried out, I returned to cover the event. It was the first time they took me to the police station; I can’t really say how I felt, but I definitely didn’t expect it.”
The three colleagues were stopped before reaching the point where the activists were, and were invited to follow the police officers: “They kept repeating that it was for security reasons, of checks, and that it would have taken us only ten minutes” Nittoli tells Affaritaliani.it. It’s a shame that the ten minutes became half an hour on the street and about an hour and a half in the police station. The three, arrested around ten o’clock, were released just after midday. Nittoliwhen she needed to go to the bathroom, she was accompanied by a female officer. “They asked me not to close the door, but to close it, leaving it open 5-10 centimeters. I specify that I had no intention of locking up, but they didn’t want to listen to reason.”
The only source of regret for the journalist was not being able to do her job. “All things considered, by the time we left the police station, the action had already been done so I couldn’t cover it.”
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