Overview

• Judges in Rome reaffirmed the 2021 first-instance ruling that recognized threats against Roberto Saviano and Rosaria Capacchione as aggravated by the mafia method.
• Francesco Bidognetti was sentenced to one year and six months and his lawyer Michele Santonastaso to one year and two months for the 2008 threats.
• The intimidation occurred on March 13, 2008 during the Spartacus appeal in Naples when a recusal document accused the journalists of influencing judges.
• Officials said the threats formed part of a deliberate strategy by the Casalesi clan to enforce territorial control and intimidate the press.
• The Federazione Nazionale della Stampa and the Ordine dei giornalisti della Campania participated as civil parties in the proceedings.