Prosecuting Magistrate Carmen Ruggiero is escorted by plain clothes police as she enters the in 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)
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)
Judge Maria Francesca Mariano is escorted by plain clothes police as she arrives at the Apollo Theatre in Lecce, Italy, before the performance of her latest play "Your Honor, on the side of the guilty", 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)
Marilu Mastrogiovanni poses in front of a murales dedicated to Gloria Anzaldua, an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory, during an interview at the Bari's university, Monday, May 20, 2024. Investigative journalist, Professor of Investigative Journalism, has reported extensively on the infiltration of the Sacra Corona Unita in the local community and city hall for her blog "Tacco d'Italia." Her reports so angered the local government that they plastered the town with giant posters attacking her work and one depicted her up to her neck in a hole in the ground. After various threats, she was put under police escort and eventually decided to move her family to Bari where she now teaches investigative journalism in the Master in Journalism course at the University of Bari. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Judge Maria Francesca Mariano salutes Don Antonio Coluccia an anti-Mafia priest from Puglia as he arrives at the Apollo Theatre in Lecce, Italy, before the performance of Mariano latest play "Your Honor, on the side of the guilty", 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)
Prosecuting Magistrate Carmen Ruggiero sits in the in 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)