Rai: 'Goracci released only after the embassy's intervention'

According to diplomatic sources,

, held for many hours in a police station in Bucharest after being attacked in the office of a no-vax Romanian senator during an interview. 

Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs

spoke to the Ambassador of Romania in Italy to whom he expressed

government's

of what happened" in Bucharest "to the Tg1 correspondent and his troupe", to whom he sent his solidarity. "Ambassador

reassured me that the Romanian authorities are following the matter with

and that a restrictive measure against the husband of Senator Diana Iovanovici Sosoaca has been issued by the competent authorities," he said. the undersecretary.

The

executive

also expressed its

that "

for the serious attack on the Rai correspondent Lucia Goracci and her collaborators. If Bucharest is still Europe, such events must not happen".

"A journalist kidnapped in the office of a novax senator during an interview - continues Usigrai -, punched in front of the police who should have protected her and then searched and held for hours in the police station. We expect the Italian government and I European Union ask the Romanian government for explanations on what happened ".