The Rome Review Court has confirmed the pre-trial detention of the fixer, the confessed instigator of the attack outside Sigfrido Ranucci’s home. His lawyers have announced they will appeal, whilst investigations continue into the ‘time gaps’ in his chats with the journalist.

The general secretary of the Coisp police union: “In our country, there is a disconnect between the work of the police and the judicial system. Officers are constantly arresting individuals who commit crimes that pose a particular threat to society, but these individuals are released immediately afterwards.”

The former Mafia boss who pressed the button that triggered the Capaci massacre is due to appear as a witness at the court in Florence in the trial against Baiardo. However, he will be speaking on a subject regarding which his statements have already been deemed unreliable by the judges, namely the alleged links between Dell’Utri, Silvio Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra.

He had already been arrested a month late. Now, following his confession, there is no need to keep him in prison for a single day longer

“Gomes warned me that he would do things his own way; I had given him carte blanche, specifying that he must not harm anyone.” His friendship with the journalist? “I hoped he could also restore my reputation – a chance for me to redeem myself in society.” What did the fixer tell the judges at the review hearing?

A glaring error in the transcript of a wiretap offers insight into the reflexes of slapdash investigative journalism. A short but intense story centred on the Ranucci case and Report.

The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated Lavitola as the instigator of the attack but then released him, allowing him 37 days to speak to anyone, including Ranucci, thereby compromising the evidence. Now the prosecutors have discovered that Lavitola has deleted many of the chats he exchanged with Ranucci, but to recover them, they have not seized the former Report presenter’s mobile phone.

Nicola Russo is a judge at the Naples Court of Appeal and, following the dissolution of the municipality of Castellammare di Stabia, has announced his intention to work on ‘a programme of collective renewal’. The first meeting is scheduled for 17 September, with Gratteri also due to attend. However, the town falls within the district in which he holds judicial office: is this acceptable to the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM)?