Giulia Cortese convicted of defamation over two tweets that judge in Milan said amounted to ‘body shaming’
Meloni’s lawyer said she would donate the €5,000 to charity when a definitive sentence was confirmed and the money was paid.Meloni’s lawyer said she would donate the €5,000 to charity when a definitive sentence was confirmed and the money was paid.Giulia Cortese, a journalist based in Milan, was also given a suspended fine of €1,200 over the jibe, which dated back to October 2021, a year before Meloni’s far-right coalition government came to power.
In two further tweets on the same day, Cortese wrote messages that translate as: “The media pillory you created on your Facebook page qualifies you for what you are: a little woman,” and “You don’t scare me, Giorgia Meloni. After all, you’re only 1.2 metres tall. I can’t even see you.” Cortese said that being convicted over a “joke phrase” was “scandalous”. “There’s climate of persecution. I don’t feel I have the freedom any more to write about this government, because once you are identified as an inconvenient journalist for this government, they don’t let anything pass,” Cortese told the Guardian.
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