Italian journalist sues

Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati is suing his former employer Agenzia Nova. Nunziati was sacked by the news agency in 2025 after asking a European Commission (EC) spokesman whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EC insists Russia should rebuild Ukraine. The sacking came after an alleged call from the EC to Nova complaining about Nunziati’s question. The first hearing will take place on 9 June 2026. Amnesty International Italia is supporting the case and Nunziati’s press union, Stampa Romana, is funding it.

“Sector-wide mobilisation”

In a video announcement about his case, Nunziati said that many of his colleagues and other supporters will be gathering at the hearing in a “sector-wide mobilisation”. He added that he is just one example of such abuse of journalists, but many others are not receiving the same attention. And he ended by pointing out that legal battles are another front in the class war. Ordinary people are often excluded from it because of the cost in a capitalist system:

 

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Italian journalist — ‘List of shame’

As Nunziati has previously pointed out, the Israeli occupation military is on the UN’s ‘list of shame’ for its crimes in Gaza, particularly against children. Yet, as he notes:

despite being on the “list of shame” and the genocide in Gaza, IDF representatives are allowed to enter the Parliament to try to influence European policies in favour of their own interests.

The EU and its organisations are complicit in Israel’s genocide.

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