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Given the amount of stories published on any given day, it’s surprising that this doesn’t happen more often: today’s print edition of the New York Times has two briefs about the same topic, and they contain conflicting information. Also, the book at the center of the stories is spelled differently in the articles.

Here’s what people read in the A section of the paper:

An informant who told the authorities of a Mafia death threat against a prominent journalist now denies having mentioned such a plot, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the journalist, Roberto Saviano, said he had decided to leave Italy. Mr. Saviano has been under police escort since his book, “Gomorrah,” an exposé of the Neapolitan Mafia, or Camorra, became a best seller in 2006. The director of the Naples anti-Mafia bureau said that prosecutors were investigating the veracity of the original tip about a plot by the Mafia to kill Mr. Saviano and his bodyguards before Christmas. Link

And this was in the C section:

The author of a best-selling book about the Naples Mafia said he planned to leave Italy after reports that the mob had made threats on his life, Reuters reported. In Italy, “Gomorra,” a nonfiction book about organized crime by the journalist Roberto Saviano, has sold more than 1.2 million copies; it has been adapted into a play and a film.
It has also forced Mr. Saviano, 29, to live under 24-hour police protection. The Italian police have recently been investigating an informant’s tip that the Naples Mafia, known as the Camorra, planned to kill Mr. Saviano by the end of the year. “I’m going away from Italy, at least for a while, then I’ll see,” Mr. Saviano told the newspaper La Repubblica. “Right now I don’t see why I should keep living like this.” Link

The above is also similar to a brief that was published in the paper yesterday:

The Naples anti-Mafia prosecutor opened an investigation on Tuesday into new death threats against a muckraking journalist after a police informant revealed that the Mafia intended to kill him by Christmas. The warning of threats against the journalist, Roberto Saviano, 29, came from a police informant connected to the Casalesi organized-crime family, news reports said. Investigators said the family intended to attack Mr. Saviano on the highway between Naples and Rome. Mr. Saviano has been under round-the-clock police protection for two years, because of the popularity of his 2006 best seller, “Gomorrah,” which shed light on the inner workings of the Neapolitan Mafia, or Camorra. Link

Thanks, Zeke!

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