‘I’m still alive’: Gomorrah author hails court victory over mafia threats

Roberto Saviano says that a court has shown that the crime clans - whose threats forced him to live with a bodyguard - are not invincible

The internationally renowned anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano has declared that journalism has been vindicated; words are vindicated - and so am I", after a landmark judgment in Rome over threats to his life.

Judges ruled on Monday that a courtroom manoeuvre 13 years ago by a Camorra mafia boss and his lawyer constituted a threat to Saviano's life, and that of a colleague - Rosaria Capacchione, then of the Naples daily Il Mattino - condemning the journalists to live ever since in the shadows, under bodyguard.