Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday urged women to immediately report intimate photographs shared online without their consent, after it emerged that even the premier herself had been targeted.

“I am disgusted by what has happened”, Meloni told the Corriere della Sera daily, after doctored photos of a series of high-profile women — including Meloni and opposition leader Elly Schlein — were discovered on a pornographic website.

The images, ranging from photographs at political rallies to holiday snaps stolen from personal social media accounts, had been altered to highlight or sexualise body parts.

The platform, called Phica — a play on a slang term for vagina in Italian — had more than 700,000 subscribers before it closed on Thursday, blaming users for breaking its rules.

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