A judge in Milan has ruled that an Italian journalist must pay 5,000 euros in damages to Premier Giorgia Meloni for mocking her height in social media posts. The judge also imposed a suspended fine of 1,200 euros on the journalist, stating that the posts constituted 'body shaming.'
The incident occurred in October 2021 when the journalist posted a digitally altered image of Meloni standing in front of a bookshelf with a picture of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the background. Meloni, who was in opposition at the time, deemed the image to be of 'unique gravity' and decided to take legal action.
