In the Italian newspaper La Stampa, my portrait of Andrea Joly on the occasion of an in-depth analysis by Joly himself, Giancarlo Caselli, Andrea Palladino, Flavia Amabile, Federico Capurso, Marcello Sorgi, and Francesca Paci.
“The management of La Stampa firmly condemns the assault on one of its journalists last night in Turin. Andrea Joly was filming a Casa Pound party that was taking place outdoors, on the street. Some militants prevented him from doing so. Joly was then beaten, kicked, and thrown to the ground. He felt a hand squeezing his throat while someone leaned out of a window and shouted, ‘Let him go, let him go!’.
A serious, very serious episode that not only limits the freedom of the press but also tries to restrict public space, which belongs to everyone, to a place where only the law of violence, oppression, and arbitrariness prevails.
For this reason, the assault on Joly concerns all of us. And what happened the other night prompts us to reiterate once more that the only values we must be inspired by are those of democracy and respect, the same ones for which a city like Turin has always fought, and which guide La Stampa in its difficult daily work.”
