The Italian writer, for years under police protection for his books about the mafia, has achieved this Monday to confirm the condemnation of a capo of the camorra and one of his lawyers who threatened him almost two decades ago. The researcher has celebrated the ruling as “the most important” of his life, which he has received in tears for everything suffered.
The Court of Appeal of Rome has confirmed the sentence to a year and a half in prison to the former chief of the Clanses clan, Francesco Bidognetti, and one year and two months for his lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, as confirmed to Efe sources close to the trial.
The accused were accused of publicly threatening Saviano and the journalist and former senator of the Democratic Party Rosaria Capacchione during a judicial view in 2008.
The sentence, which revalidates the first instance of 2021, was received with applause in the Roman Court’s classroom and by the crying of the writer who denounced the internal weaving of the camorra in superventas as ‘Gomorra’ (2006), forcing him to live protected.
The threats were directed to Saviano and the journalist at an audience of the ‘Spartacus trial’, who sat tens of members of the bloody camorrista clan of the casaleses on the bench and ended up condemning Bidognetti to life imprisonment.
However, during the process, his lawyer, Santonasta, read in public a declaration of his mafia represented in which he intimidated the informants and the Prosecutor’s Office.
For that reason, in this trial, the National Federation of the Italian press (FNSI) and the College of Journalists have appeared as private accusations.
Saviano has published on Monday an article in Il Corriere della will be in which he advanced that this sentence would be “the most important of his life” after a long fifteen -year process.
“For years I have hated Bidognetti and his lawyer, convinced that they were the culprits of my condition. But, deep down, I have not been separating from this madness. I have decided to remain, tell it, resist,” he confesses.
Saviano, “condemned” to live under police protection, has advised those who want to continue investigating organized crime that do not do it alone: “form a network. Do not put into play only your body. Do not be illustrious,” he warns.
