Head of Anti Mafia force (DIA), Carla Durante, talks with her team in front of Masseria La Tenente confiscated from a mafioso in 2014 who was killed named Lucio Vetrugno known as "Lucio the Tiger" – he kept a tiger on the property. The government gave the Masseria to Caritas to be transformed into a community center, in Copertino, near Lecce, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Head of Anti Mafia force (DIA), Carla Durante, left, is silhouetted has she talks with her team in the wire-tape room of the DIA headquarters in Lecce, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Head of Anti Mafia force (DIA), Carla Durante, left, walks with her team in Lazzari Castle confiscated to a convicted man from the SCU in 2013, in Cutrofiano, near Lecce, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A member of DIA, "Antimafia Investigative Direction" walks in Lazzari Castle, confiscated to a convicted man from the SCU in 2013, in Cutrofiano, near Lecce, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A scene of "Your Honor, on the side of the guilty", the latest work by Judge Maria Francesca Mariano staged at the Apollo Theatre in Lecce, Italy, Monday, May 20, 2024. Mariano is living under 24 hour police escort after receiving death threats. In July 2023 Mariano issued the arrest warrants for 22 members of the Lamendola Clan accused of mafia association, drug trafficking, attempted homicide, possession of illegal weapons. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
An aerial view of Masseria La Tenente confiscated from a mafioso in 2014 who was killed named Lucio Vetrugno known as "Lucio the Tiger" – he kept a tiger on the property. the government gave it to Caritas to be transformed into a community center in Copertino, near Lecce, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A view of the bunker hall of Lecce, Italy, before the start of an audience, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. In the past few months, Carmen Ruggiero, the prosecutor leading the team against a clan in a case known as "Operation Wol." was threatened by a jailed mafioso. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)