Overview
- The Court of Cassation upheld prison terms of 1 year and 6 months for Casalesi boss Francesco Bidognetti and 1 year and 2 months for lawyer Michele Santonastaso, rejecting defense requests.
- The threats were issued in a Naples courtroom in 2008 during the Spartacus appeal, with Bidognetti using his attorney to target Roberto Saviano and Rosaria Capacchione.
- Saviano said the ruling acknowledges the mafia nature of the intimidation, thanked the Carabinieri for long-standing protection, and warned the State still cannot guarantee his freedom.
- Rosaria Capacchione called the episode grave and placed it within the Casalesi clan’s war against the State, describing it as a terrorist strategy.
- Saviano’s lawyer, Antonio Nobile, welcomed an important result that highlights judicial delays and noted the unusual use of a judicial act to menace journalists with a mafia aggravation.