Rome – A one-kilogram firecracker, planted as a warning message in front of the home of Sigfrido Ranucci, host of Report. And, a few weeks later, an anonymous letter arrives at the program's editorial office, a dark thread that unravels from the scene of the Campo Ascolano attack in Pomezia to the Camorra slums and shipyards of Veneto.
This is the lead, as explosive as the device of October 16th, which is now engaging the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Rome, who have the letter in their possession.
Today, the prosecutor Carlo Villani summoned Rai3 correspondent Daniele Autieri and Francescomaria Tuccillo, former CEO of Cantieri Navali Vittoria (CNV) in Adria (Rovigo), as "persons informed of the facts."
They are two of the key pieces of a puzzle reconstructing an alleged international arms trafficking operation and its ties to the clans. A puzzle that Report began to piece together in a story aired last September 24th, and which someone, perhaps, wanted to interrupt with explosives.
The letter and the Camorra connection
The anonymous letter, as confirmed by the investigation, explicitly links the attack on Ranucci to the "criminal circles" mentioned in that report.
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The journalistic investigation reconstructed that those weapons were attached to two patrol boats destined for Oman, but only the boats were delivered to the country, without the machine guns. This "hole" in the cargo, according to Report, provides circumstantial evidence of illicit trafficking.
The connecting link: the Caserta company and the Casalesi
This is where the trail thickens, intertwining with organized crime. According to the program's investigations, the Caserta-based Arkipiù company allegedly financed part of the €8,2 million needed by Roberto Cavazzana to purchase the CNVs from the Duò family, in a transaction that alerted Palazzo Chigi to the point of initiating the Golden Power procedure.
Among Arkipiù's former partners, Report explains, is a person who had business dealings with Luigi Russo, convicted of external association with the Camorra clan led by boss Giuseppe Setola, already sentenced to life in prison for the Castvolturno massacre. This direct connection casts a long shadow over the transfer of ownership of the shipyard.
The suspicious resignation and the warning
The background story is completed with the events surrounding former CEO Francescomaria Tuccillo. On October 17th, just hours after the Ranucci attack, Tuccillo received a certified email asking him to leave the company. His resignation was formalized on November 10th. It was a sudden departure that caused a stir.
But his confession to Report sounds like a macabre omen: "Several unusual incidents have occurred," Tuccillo said. "Among them, at the beginning of my term, I was advised never to sleep in Adria." A warning that today, in light of the bomb and that anonymous letter, takes on the weight of a threat that materialized elsewhere, but with the same dark roots.
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