On 16 October in Pomezia, Italy, a bomb exploded in the car of Sigfrido Ranucci, a prominent Italian investigative journalist who conducts the weekly TV show Report. An investigation has been opened by the anti-Mafia prosecution section. Since 2000, Ranucci has investigatedpolitical corruption, organised crime, mafias, and international conflicts. In 2009, he investigated a mafia clan in Sicily, and received threats, including in the form of bullet casings and gunpowder, and was placed under police protection by the prosecutor in charge. In 2021, a plot to kill him was unveiled by relevant authorities, with Ranucci claiming that the main suspects were members of Latin American and Italian drug cartels and of extreme right-wing groups in Italy. In the summer of 2024, two bullets were found outside of Ranucci’s home in Pomezia.In November 2024, following his investigation of the war in Gaza, the Report’s board were threatened with a terrorist attack similar to the one carried out against the Charlie Hebdo editorial office in Paris in 2015. The bomb attack in October is the latest escalation in this ongoing harassment and intimidation.
