An Italian writer receives death threats from the mafia

Juan Vincente Boo, correspondent for the daily, tells the story of the Italian writer Roberto Saviano who has received death threats after publishing his book 'Gomorra', an investigative story about the underworld of Naples. To teach Saviano a lesson and intimidate those who might wish to follow in his footsteps, the 'capos' [chiefs] decided to kill him. When the Minister of the Interior, Giuliano Amato, was informed of this 'fatwa', he sent police protection. Meanwhile Umberto Eco, Italy's most famous writer, launched a manifesto on television defending his young colleague [a supportive website has been created], who is also a journalist, to avoid him ending up like his colleague Giancardi Siani, editor of the daily 'Il Mattin', shot dead on the streets of Naples [in 1985]. With an average of one assassination per day, Naples is back on the front page of national news... ."

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