Italian Activist Denounced by Oil Company
The Corner House Stands in Solidarity with Antonio Tricarico

The Italian oil company Eni, through its head of the legal department Stefano Speroni -- who is under investigation as part of an enquiry into illicit dossier-keeping and espionage -- has denounced Antonio Tricarico of ReCommon in relation to statements Tricarico made during the RAI programme Report on 5 May.

As a result, Tricarico is now under investigation by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office on charges of alleged defamation of the company in the press. In the report by journalist Daniele Autieri last May, Tricarico highlighted the overlapping timing of the award to Eni of a mining license for the giant gas field of Zohr, off the Egyptian coast, and the dramatic event that saw the kidnapping, torturing and killing of university researcher Giulio Regeni by Cairo security forces.

Said Nicholas Hildyard of The Corner House, "This attack by Eni is an attack against an entire community of campaigners, researchers and journalists working for climate justice."

"We have worked with Antonio Tricarico since 2001 and have always admired his work holding fossil fuel power to account. We stand in solidarity."