Threats and violence against two magistrates in Lecce, one arrest

LECCE, JUNE 20 – The police have arrested a person held responsible for instigating a series of acts of violence and threats, aggravated by the mafia method, against judge Maria Francesca Mariano and prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero, who have been under guard since September after having signed the documents of the investigation The Wolf against the Sacra Corona Unita. The threats were also made against a journalist. In recent months, the investigating judge at the Lecce court Maria Francesca Mariano and the anti-mafia prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero have been the recipients of intimidating letters with death threats, and also attempted assaults during interrogations. Last September, Mariano was also given a bloody goat’s head pierced with a butcher’s knife, accompanied by a note on which ‘Like this’ was written: the animal’s head was left in front of the door of her home. The precautionary custody order in prison was issued by the Potenza investigating judge at the request of the DDA. The details of the operation will be made known during the press conference scheduled for 10.30 am in the meeting room of the Lecce police headquarters in via Oronzo Quarta (station square), in the presence of the prosecutor of the Republic of Potenza.