Turin prosecutors have told the
Telegram messaging app to take down the anti-vaccine 'Basta
Dittatura' (No More Dictatorship) chat, daily newspaper La
Stampa reported on Monday.
The chat is used by groups that are against vaccines and against
the Green Pass COVID-19 vaccine passport.
It was used to publish the telephone numbers of some government
offices and of politicians and doctors that the anti-vax groups
are hostile towards.
The app has not yet responded to the prosecutors, according to
the report.
The prosecutors could issue an international warrant in relation
to the order in the coming days, the report said.
Politicians, journalists and health officials and experts have
been threatened by anti-vax extremists in Italy and in some
cases attacked.
A top virologist, Matteo Bassetti, was recently accosted by a
46-year-old man who has been cited for issuing serious threats.
The man reportedly came across Bassetti in the street and
started following him, filming him on his phone and shouting at
him: "You're going to kill all of us with these vaccines and
we're going to make you pay".
A video journalist from the La Repubblica daily was attacked by
a protester at an anti-Green Pass sit-in outside the Education
Ministry in Rome last week. And a pro-Green Pass teacher
received a bullet in the mail.
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