Drafted 22 January, updated 5 February 2025. Above: one of the locations of my complaints.
In Ascoli Piceno Mario Paci asked me about the persecution he had suffered. After talking to him I felt the need to take stock, a list of the persecution suffered that is not even in my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti.
As a preface, I start with a definition: stalking consists of a series of attitudes held by an obsessed individual, called a stalker, who afflicts another person, persecuting him or her, generating states of fear and anxiety, even going so far as to compromise the conduct of normal daily life.
Turning to my story, it must be said that before the lawsuits, there was a smear campaign that started in 2004 and included the publication of Sickle and Forklift (2007).
The criminal complaints for stalking started after our father took away our company shares:
- 17/06/2011 : damage to property in Albiate
- 09/07/2011 : damage to car in Milan
- 08/08/2011 : damage to house fence, possible intrusion in Albiate
- 10/01/2012 : fire in garden, in Albiate
- 16/01/2012 : damage and theft in Milan
- 12/06/2012 : car damage in Milan
- 18/06/2012 : cutting 4 tyres in Milan
- 25/06/2012 : another tyre cut, risk of crashing under the Porta Garibaldi tunnel
- 9/07/2012 : damage to my car
- 27/08/2012: two centuries-old mulberry trees set on fire in Albiate
- 24/10/2012 : threatening phone call from my father’s house to my wife in Milan
- 14/11/2012 : lawsuit against Stefano Lorenzetto for defamation
- 24/12/2012: house occupied in Albiate
- 18/01/2013: beating of an employee in Genoa
- 25/1/2013: threats to the mother of an employee (complaint in Verona)
- 22/02/2013: theft at an employee in Milan
- 18/06/2013: threatening phone calls to my sister Violetta in France
- 19/06/2013: instrumental complaint by my father
- 11/10/2013: tailing and chasing on the Milan-Genoa (A7) motorway
- 31/10/2013: theft in my restaurant. Intimidation of my manager
- 21/12/2013: delivery of an animal jawbone and a note with death threats in Milan.
- April 2014 : Attempt to run over Uncle Claudio [Caprotti] in Florence. Website defaming my brother-in-law in Belgium
- 2 August 2014 : theft in the restaurant
- 5 August 2014 : theft in the restaurant
In total there are 24 complaints lodged (one lodged by my father).
October 2019: conclusion of the criminal cases.
Obviously these are the main cases.
Then there were many others, which were not followed by charges. Like this one or even this one.
And apart from Le Ossa dei Caprotti, it seems that even recently we have had a CIA agent in our affairs.
I had other criminal affairs in the start-up I was trying to manage but there seemed to be no connection with our sequence of disturbing events.
Please note that during these events two suppliers went bankrupt, their story is public and has not been denied.
And every time this affair comes up again, as it did on 9 April 2023, with ‘much gentility’, Salvatore Trifirò, my father’s lawyer, a wound is reopened. Also because I keep in my archives a disgraceful letter from him to his uncle Claudio [Caprotti], described in my book on pages 335 and 336.
Definitely, how could it be otherwise? If only because of all the time I had to spend on it, not being able to do anything productive.
And if, for instance, at night, while driving a car is too ‘under me’ or follows me for a long distance, I cannot help but fear a return to the past.
Also because, shortly after the launch of my book, at the release of Luca Casadei‘s podcast, when I had a moment of popularity (in March 2024), one of my persecutors asked to ‘friend’ me on social media…giving me a shiver down my spine.
He had already turned up, in threatening tones, when the PM was making his ‘enquiry’.
I can forgive but forgetting persecutors, managers, consultants, journalists and various media who participated in this affair is very difficult.
Finally, I want to thank lawyer Claudia Shammah, a friendly person who supported and helped me in this long desert crossing.
I also hope that social media will not become the ‘free sewer’ described by Massimo Gramellini below as I have sued several people who insulted me when my book came out.
To date I am confident because in the case of Cristina Seymandi, the judge for preliminary investigations, Lucia Minutella, rejected the request for archiving made by the prosecutor’s office, ordering an investigation into the authors of the online defamations but, in Italy, as we know, justice depends on people and moments. Let’s hope so.
