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Sat 10 Oct 2009Top Naples policeman opposes protection for anti-Mafia author
HOW MUCH police protection does the best-selling anti-Mafia writer Roberto Saviano really need? That surprising question was posited this week by senior Naples policeman Vittorio Pisani, who in an interview with daily Corriere Della Seraseemed to suggest that Saviano did not really need an escort at all.
Since the publication three years ago of Saviano’s book Gomorrah, an exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra that was subsequently made into an award-winning film of the same name, Mafia investigators and Saviano (30) have claimed that his life is under threat from the Camorra.
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