• Caserta, the journalist Mario De Michele reports an ambush: they shot me

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November 16, 2019 "I will continue to be a journalist and always write the truth, I will not give up. I will always denounce any intimidation as I have always done". This was reported to Adnkronos Mario De Michele, the journalist director of Campania Notizie, who two days ago was the victim of an ambush in the municipality of Gricignano, in the province of Caserta, where unknown people fired a few gunshots at the car on which he was standing.

"Today I feel calmer. Both for the solidarity received and because my guardianship has already been prepared by the police. Tonight I have to go and present my new colleague Salvatore Minieri's book, in Casapesenna, in the former stronghold of the boss Michele Zagaria, and I know that two people of the police will come to take me, who will escort me to the place where the meeting will take place ", announces the journalist, speaking of the protection prepared by the Prefecture and Dda of Naples for the serious attack right away.

"Investigate the Dda of Naples and I thank the head prosecutor Giovanni Melillo who has personally taken an interest in my case. There are close investigations into this matter and I hope that the names of the authors of this gesture come to the surface - continues De Michele - I thank the institutions , including the undersecretary Carlo Sibilia, friends, sincere colleagues, journalists' unions who expressed their solidarity ".

"Working in a frontier land like ours is not easy. Especially in this area between the Agro Aversano and the Neapolitan, where there are plots between the Neapolitan and Caserta Camorra. I was dealing with this in the territories of Orta and Succivo - he concludes - I have done various investigations into political corruption and malfeasance. Surely the episode can be linked to recent articles. "