A journalist who received death
threats from Ostia's Spada crime family on Thursday told a trial
into the clan that she was not afraid.
"They have tried in every way to deprive me of my freedom and
they haven't been able to deprive me of my physical freedom
because I have a (police) escort but certainly I won't submit to
their rules and today I can tell you that I feel free," said
Federica Angeli, who works for Rome-based national daily La
Repubblica.
"It is a beautiful feeling.
"I'm not afraid," she said.
Angeli was speaking after giving testimony at the trial into
the Spadas' criminal activities.
The Spada clan is one of two rival families that run rackets
in Ostia, a coastal municipality of Rome that was once the Roman
Empire's main port.
The Ostia council has twice been dissolved for mafia
infiltration.
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