Warning threats against Roberto Saviano

By Rachel Donadio, New York Times



The Naples anti-Mafia prosecutor opened an investigation on Tuesday into new death threats against a muckraking journalist after a police informant revealed that the Mafia intended to kill him by Christmas. The warning of threats against the journalist, Roberto Saviano, 29, came from a police informant connected to the Casalesi organized-crime family, news reports said. Investigators said the family intended to attack Mr. Saviano on the highway between Naples and Rome. Mr. Saviano has been under round-the-clock police protection for two years, because of the popularity of his 2006 best seller, "Gomorrah," which shed light on the inner workings of the Neapolitan Mafia, or Camorra.