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15 November 2019The journalist from Caserta, Mario De Michele, director of Campanianotizie.com, reported to the carabinieri that he had been the victim of an ambush by gunfire in Gricignano d'Aversa; unknown men fired at him ten bullets at eye level, six of which hit his car. "This is an episode of an unprecedented gravity that shows how the Casertano is an area of very high criminal density," the leaders of Fnsi, Sugc and the president of Unci Campania, Sandro Ruotolo, write in a note. The event took place, according to the journalist, yesterday near an area subject to building speculation, in the NATO area. To shoot - said De Michele - would have been two men in a car. "Ten bullets exploded at eye level, so to kill" the leaders of Fnsi, Sugc and UNCI Campania president Sandro Ruotolo write in a note."We ask the judiciary - they continue - to investigate in every direction to clarify what happened. To the colleague, to whom we are close in this difficult moment, we must guarantee the maximum protection for his and those close to him. We know that the The Prefecture of Caserta has already been activated, and the duty of journalists now is not to leave him alone and to go and illuminate the stories he was telling.
Among other things, the ambush is the latest and most serious assault suffered by the director of Campanianotizie. Only last Monday the reporter was stopped in Sant'Arpino by two people who threatened and slapped him for what he had written about Orta di Atella, his car was hit repeatedly with a mace ".