Ranucci, Rome prosecutors ask for a hearing in the Anti-Mafia Commission
Part of the hearing was sealed due to a question from Senator Scarpinato
by Lorenzo Pace
Key points
The prosecutors of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, who are investigating the attack on the Report anchorman, Sigfrido Ranucci, have asked the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission to acquire the journalist's hearing of 4 November.
What he said in the hearing
Ranucci, on that occasion, retraced the threats received in recent years after investigative services. From investigations into the massacres, to the infiltration of clans into contracts, the Moro case and the Mattarella murder. Finally arriving at those of 2024, linked to a report on Albanian and Mexican narcos.
'I remember,' he said, 'receiving some messages sent at 5am from a lawyer, who also defended Pablo Escobar in Italy, who told me that he had been contacted by some members of a cartel who demanded dossier activities against me, even threatening actions against my person'.
Since the 16 October bombing, however, no other threat: 'I don't know what context to relate what happened', recalling, then, that the themes of the first episode, launched two days before the explosion, would have been 'the infiltration of the 'ndrangheta in the wind energy business and the massacres'.
In addition to recounting what happened that night. "Those parked outside my house," he said, "were gas-powered cars that, if exploded, would have brought down the building
