Gianluca Lingoya, a journalist for the newspaper Messangero, was attacked by a security guard from the Italian club AS Roma while trying to film a training session for the players during a dinner hosted by captain Lorenzo Pellegrini to boost morale within the team. before the final of the European Conference League next Wednesday in front of the Dutch Feyenoord.

Press reports indicated that the journalist was not allowed to enter the restaurant to take pictures of the players, so he went to a nearby building and took pictures of them before one of the club’s guards who had beaten him noticed this, prompting the journalist to seek help. from the police.

The Mesengero newspaper expressed outrage at what happened to its correspondent, saying: “It is hard to believe that simple photographs of the dinner, including those taken in public places and on the square, can lead to such consequences, up to aggression. Our correspondent did his job: “Professional, documents what is happening, a table for the players to eat. Nothing special. Obviously there is a lot of tension around us, but what happened in Piazza de Ricci remains unacceptable.”

Translated by Mohamed Bazzi.