REGGIO CALABRIA “After 13 years, with a formal phone call from a police officer, my escort was revoked.” This is what the Reggio businessman Tiberio Bentivoglio, witness of justice and victim of the ‘ndrangheta, told AGI, who for over thirty years has decided to resist the threats, attacks and requests for bribes from the gangs of the ‘Ndrangheta. ndrangheta of Reggio Calabria. Tiberio Bentivoglio and his wife Vincenza Falsone ended up in the sights of the ‘Ndrangheta after having resisted pressure to induce them to pay “protection”, suffering the theft of goods worth hundreds of thousands of euros, the burning of a vehicle, until , on the night of April 5, 2003, a powerful explosive device did not destroy their shop, the “Sanitaria S. Elia”. It is the beginning of a series of threats against Bentivoglio and his wife, of “good advice” to convince them to desist, withdraw the complaints and “satisfy” the emissaries of the gangs, attempts which the couple rejects, until the ‘Ndrangheta raise the bar. On February 9, 2011, the entrepreneur was confronted with gunshots by a gunman, who hit him in the leg. One of the shots, aimed at the chest, was fortunately muffled by the bag the trader was wearing over his shoulder. Bentivoglio, who in the past has found the support of numerous citizens and of “Libera”, chose not to comment on the State’s decision to withdraw his escort: «I prefer to wait – he said – to better understand the reasons, the meaning of this initiative ».
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