An Italian lawyer and blogger was
discovered shot to death Friday in the seaside town of Formia
near Rome.
Mario Piccolino was found in his office with a gunshot
wound to the head.
Piccolino was a local institution of sorts for his website
freevillage.it, which focused on crime and illegality in the
Pontina area just southwest of Rome.
The killer made an appointment with Piccolino to gain
access, investigators said.
The activist lawyer in 2009 was savagely beaten with a
carjack in his office, and had been the recipient of numerous
"warnings" to desist from his investigative blogging.
These included chopped-off animal heads and fish entrails
being left on his doorstep, sources said.
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