# Italian Journalist sigfrido Ranucci Targeted in Bombing
A well-known Italian journalist, Sigfrido Ranucci, who presents a historic investigative program on RAI, Italy’s public television, suffered an attack on Thursday night. A bomb placed next to his car, parked in front of his house, exploded in a town near rome, though no one was injured.
The device, containing approximately a kilo of explosive according to initial police analysis, detonated around 10 PM, destroying Ranucci’s vehicle and damaging his daughter’s car, which had been parked next to it just 20 minutes prior, in front of their family home in Campo Ascolano, near Pomezia, south of the Italian capital.
“My daughter passed in front of my car a few minutes before the explosion, they could have killed her,” said Ranucci, who has been under police escort since 2021, following a plot to assassinate him by a drug trafficker linked to the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia. He had previously been provided with security measures in 2009. The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has launched an examination, considering the possibility of a mafia-style attack, and the Ministry of the Interior has increased police protection for Ranucci, confirming the bomb had the potential to be fatal to anyone nearby.
The host of Report stated, “perhaps it is no coincidence that a few days ago he announced the topics of the new investigations.” Ranucci recently announced the new season of his program, set to begin October 26 on RAI3, detailing upcoming investigations into culture, schools, healthcare, wind energy, and banking. “It appears to be a rudimentary device, but now we need to determine the nature of the explosive.with all the threats we are receiving, it is not easy to trace its origin,” the journalist explained. Preliminary findings suggest the bomb was placed between the car and the house’s entrance wall, concealed by flower pots, and was likely detonated using a fuse rather than a remote control or timer.
“I still don’t know how to interpret what happened,” he explained to the newspaper The Republic. “What I have done is reconstruct some things that have happened in recent months. I have never made them public. Last summer,a year ago,we found two P38 caliber bullets outside my house. Then there is a list of particular situations that have occurred in recent months, starting with the attempt to delegitimize me.”
the attack has prompted widespread condemnation and expressions of solidarity from across the political spectrum and within Italian institutions.