the ROME – The threats to the Republic, to its founder, Eugenio Scalfari and the director Carlo Verdelli end up in the power of attorney. The public ministry of the roman Sergio Colaiocco has opened an investigation to shed light on the episodes of intimidation in respect of the editorial of the newspaper, starting from the false bomb alert of January 15, followed by tweets and threatening letters to Verdelli and, finally, the six papers are sent to Scalfari containing powders suspected. The survey, which aims to identify authors and to establish the possible existence of a direction only, is entrusted to the specialists of the Postal and police of Digos, who yesterday came to the Republic after the nth tweet against Verdelli.

This time the warning is to reduce him to a wheelchair. The profile of Gemma (@gemma61001), that has no followers or people you follow and is also open by January, he posted Thursday with a picture of a wheelchair, attaching this message: “Carlo Verdelli, vile slanderer, a short you need it. Promised”. The same Gem, on the 6th of February, commenting on a post of Matteo Salvini in which he thanks his supporters of Reggio Calabria, she writes: “it would take a firing squad for the worms traitors of the M5S”.

The crimes hypothesized by Colaiocco are procured alarm and threats. The first offence relates to the telephone call came to the switchboard of the newspaper about a month ago, during which a male voice warned of a bomb in the headquarters of the editorial staff in Rome. The inspection of a team of bomb disposal unit has determined, after a two-hour inspection of the premises, that it was a false alarm. The scrutiny of the investigators of the possible association of this act with the title of the first page of the Republic on that day, “Delete Salvini,” referring to the decrees and safety summary of the sense of an interview with the parent company, Dem to the Room Graziano Delrio.

In the following days, Verdelli has been the subject of three tweets with death threats and an anonymous letter in which the self-proclaimed group, “Hornets with the sting poisoned,” he promised to poison him. Then came the six letters to Use, shipped from abroad (Germany, France, England, and is also working with the Interpol to verify the senders. The nature of the powder that they contained will be established in the next few days by a laboratory of Foggia. The envelopes are similar, with the inside of the powder, were sent to the secretary of the Pd’s Nicola Zingaretti and to the senator Emma Bonino.

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