The journalist risks prison for up to 4 and a half years. This is the effect of one of the amendments presented by the rapporteur Gianni Berrino to the bill on defamation.
A new article is effectively introduced: 13-bis of the press law. The alarm was raised after reading the modification proposals filed by the FdI senator Alfredo Bazoli. The opposition attacks, but criticism is also raised by the majority. Maurizio Lupi of Noi Moderati says "no prison for journalists". The group leader of FI in the Justice Commission Pierantonio Zanettin states: "There may be other legal mechanisms, and this is what we are aiming for, but we have doubts about prison." Alessandra Costante, general secretary of the Fnsi, intervenes immediately. "The prison for journalist - she states - is an uncivilized measure and denotes the fear of this government towards freedom of the Press"