The investigations of Out of the core, Mario Giordano’s program aired on Rete4 on Tuesday evenings. For several weeks, the broadcast of political and current affairs has been investigating theillegal occupation of the apartments, which often happens by foreign citizens and not always legal in the Italian territory. Over the past two days, reporters from Out of the core and their crews were the victims of violent attacks by the occupants, who sent one of the correspondents of the broadcast to the hospital. The two reports were broadcast this evening and documented the violence and unscrupulous behavior on the part of those who want to live, and know they can, above the law.
The aggression in Veneto
Eugenia Fiore’s troupe, correspondent of Out of the core, was this week in Monastier di Treviso, a small town not far from the Treviso capital and from Venice. The aim was to document one of the many illegal occupations by foreign citizens. In this case it is the home of an elderly man now residing in a retirement home. Left unattended, the house was unduly occupied by an immigrant Nigerian. Upon the arrival of the journalists of Out of the core, the situation rapidly degenerated, so much so that the intervention of the police was necessary to restore calm.
Despite the arrival of the police cars, who were identifying her, the immigrant went into a rage and hurled herself at the operator who was filming, shouting unrepeatable phrases towards Eugenia Fiore and the crew. “I’ll show you!“, he threatened, addressing the correspondent and the cameraman, before smashing an iPad on his face. The man reported numerous scratches on his face, his glasses were torn and, as if that weren’t enough, the woman was relentless on the cameraman biting his arm. Despite wearing the windbreaker and sweater, the Nigerian managed to bite into the cameraman’s flesh, leaving him evident marks and a large hematoma. “We were afraid, we feared that the woman had a knife“, report from the troupe of Out of the core. At the end of the attack, the woman, who has a expulsion decree dated August 2020, he returned to the house he is illegally occupying. As if nothing had happened.
The shock attack in Piedmont
Different region but very similar circumstances, with another shock attack in Cuneo, where a Cuban squatter attacked chain another troupe of Out of the core. Armed with a heavy iron chain, the occupant first hit the security men, then headed for the car in which the journalist, Carmen La Gatta, had taken refuge, smashing the crystals while the Cuban’s companion tried to pull it. out of the car violently. The glass hit the journalist in full, and she reported numerous scratches and bruises. “Kill her, kill her“shouted the Brazilian woman, turning to the journalist from Out of the core. Taken to hospital for treatment, she got a 20-day prognosis. The security men, on the other hand, took home several bruises on their legs.