A top Italian investigative journalist is very much not dead after a mistimed bomb placed by a mafia operative exploded about 20 minutes too late to kill or at least grievously maim him, Reuters reports.
Sigfrido Ranucci, host of state broadcaster RAI’s weekly “Report” show, has been under police protection for years because of his dogged persistence in covering the country’s underworld. The bomb, planted outside of his home about 20 km south of Rome damaged two cars in his driveway.
Or at least that’s what Ranucci told the cops. It’s possible he owes the mafia a shit ton of money on a racing bet from 1999 and then hastily slapped together some reporting to make it look like he was this fearless clarion of truth against the criminal scum. Maybe the mafia guys even kind of like the coverage but still want him dead over the €50,000 he bet on Taormina Triumph way back when.