Italian journalist fined €5,000 for mocking Meloni's height

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. Photo: AFP

An Italian journalist who ridiculed the small stature of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni online has been ordered by a court to pay €5,000 in damages, she told AFP Friday. Giulia Cortese, who is freelance, had called the far-right leader "a little woman" in an October 2021 social media post, adding: "You don't scare me. Furthermore,...