Roberto Saviano: ‘To be believed, you have to die, like Falcone, or risk dying. What kind of world do we live in?’

Last Monday, Roberto Saviano partially healed a wound opened 17 years ago. The Rome Court of Appeal, the court of second instance, ruled that in March 2008, the Casalesi clan, the most feared Camorra clan at the time, had indeed threatened to kill him. The court convicted capo Roberto Bidognetti and the clan’s lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, who had read a text in the courtroom during a major Camorra trial requesting the transfer of the case to another court, and directly accused Saviano, who had published Gomorrah in 2006, and journalist Rosaria Capacchione of influencing the judges with their information. In other words, Santonastaso placed the responsibility for a possible conviction, which later actually arrived, on them.

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