Donatella Di Cesare is an internationally experienced scientist. What’s happening now in her home country of Italy shocks her, says the philosophy professor at Sapienza University in Rome: “That hasn’t happened here before.” The fact that politicians defend themselves against slander is not new and sometimes makes sense. But the fact that a head of government and important ministers are systematically using the judiciary to silence critics, as is now happening under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has “a new dimension”.
Meloni’s minister and brother-in-law succumbs to court – culture
