Overview

• An improvised explosive of roughly one kilogram with a hand‑lit fuse detonated outside Sigfrido Ranucci’s house, severely damaging two family cars minutes after his daughter passed by.
• Rome’s anti‑mafia prosecutors opened an inquiry for aggravated damage, RIS forensic teams are analyzing the ordnance, and Carabinieri seized the vehicles and gathered surveillance footage along Ranucci’s route from Rome.
• Investigators are reviewing a witness account of a hooded figure fleeing, examining a nearby stolen Fiat 500X, and assessing phone and camera data to trace possible surveillance and escape paths.
• Multiple lines of inquiry remain open, including local criminal networks, links between ultras and the extreme right, Albanian organized crime, and a potential commissioned intimidation possibly connected to areas probed by Report, with checks also exploring parallels to two bullets left at the home in 2024.
• Authorities have increased Ranucci’s security as sit‑ins and statements from journalists’ unions and political figures press for concrete protections such as anti‑SLAPP measures and implementation of the Media Freedom Act provisions.