Chico Forti wanted to silence Travaglio and Lucarelli with the help of the ‘ndrangheta

The former sailor would have asked the prisoner to contact some 'Ndrangheta supporters to silence the two journalists

ROME – “Silencing Marco Travaglio and Selvaggia Lucarelli”. This would have been the request made by Chi Forti to an inmate of the Verona prison, where they are both held. The former sailor, convicted of murder in the United States, is currently in the Montorio prison and here he is said to have asked the prisoner to contact some ‘Ndrangheta supporters to silence the two journalists. “All in exchange for future favors, when he is free and could even run as a candidate with the centre-right”, they write in Fatto Quotidiano. “The matter could have remained closed within those four walls. Instead, the prisoner who was the recipient of the indecent proposal, who is in precautionary custody, asked the guarantor to inform the director of Il Fatto, who immediately reported the matter to the Verona Prosecutor’s Office, where the chief prosecutor Raffaele Tito has opened a ‘model 45’ file, i.e. without suspects or crimes”. Among the hypotheses being examined on the possible motive for Forti’s request, there is the headline with which the newspaper opened the May 19 news on his return to Italy: “Welcome murderer”. p>

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“The news that the inmate in the Verona prison Chico Forti, recently transferred to Italy from the United States, would have turned, with contacts in the same prison, to exponents of the ‘Ndrangheta to silence the journalists Selvaggia Lucarelli, Marco Travaglio and a ‘third person’ in exchange for future help once freedom is regained, is dramatic and disturbing. The investigation opened by the Prosecutor’s Office will shed light on the facts. In the meantime, we will ask Nordio to urgently respond to a question that we will present in the Senate this morning. And we expect that President Meloni, who went to welcome Forti at the airport, will also speak clear words on this very ugly affair”. Thus Senator Walter Verini, PD group leader in the Anti-Mafia Commission.