Surprising arrest in Estonia of an Italian journalist

(BRUSSELS2) Former Italian journalist Giulietto Chiesa was arrested in Estonia on Monday afternoon (15 December). Surprise arrest. This raised some questions in Rome. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Estonian ambassador to Farnesina to obtain an explanation. Arrived in Tallin to attend a congress, he was placed in detention, on his arrival, “ without any reason “We underline the ministry. According to his wife, who alerted the press, he is the subject of a deportation warrant.

Former MEP

Elected in 2004 on the Di Pietro list to the European Parliament, Giulietto Chiesa first sat in the ALDE parliamentary group, from which he resigned in 2006 to join the Socialist group. He was a member of the INTA committees (Trade) and a substitute in the Foreign Affairs committee (AFET) and the Defense sub-committee (SEDE). A specialist in Russia, close to Mikhael Gorbachev, he ran in the 2009 European elections in Latvia on the Russian-speaking list "For human rights in a united Latvia", without success.