'You're only 1.20m': journalist makes fun of Giorgia Meloni's height and ends up paying her 5,000 euros

La Première ministre italienne a condamné la journaliste à 5 000 euros de dommages et intérêts XinHua – Zhao Dingzhe

the essential This Friday, July 19, 2024, an Italian journalist was sentenced after an exchange on social networks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, dating back to 2021.

It’s a mockery that did not pass the eyes of Giorgia Meloni. This Friday, July 19, a court in Milan ordered a freelance journalist to pay 5,000 euros in damages to the far-right leader for having mocked for her size in a message posted on ~em>Parisian.

The convicted journalist, Giulia Cortese, had published a montage of the prime minister with Italy's former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the background. In response, the woman who was not yet Prime Minister wrote on Facebook that this "falsified photo" was of "unique gravity" and that she had asked her lawyer to take legal action against the journalist.

Described as a "little woman"

In response for the first time, Giulia Cortese indicates: “The media pillory you created on your Facebook page labels you for what you are: a small woman.” Before criticizing Giorgia Meloni even more in a second tweet: “You don't scare me, Giorgia Meloni. After all, you're only 1.20m tall. I don't even see you", she wrote.

She will be found guilty of defamation for these two tweets which, according to the Milanese judge, are nothing more than "body shaming" against the Prime Minister who is 1.63m tall, according to several Italian media outlets. A decision that the journalist is ready to accept, despite the possibility of appealing.