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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Sicilian mobster asks judge to order seizure of Roberto Saviano book

Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano, whose 2006 bestselling book Gomorrah revealed the secrets of the Neapolitan mafia. Photograph: Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse/Rex/Shutterstock

A Sicilian mobster has asked a judge to order the seizure of all copies of a book by the author Roberto Saviano, who is living under police protection after he faced death threats for exposing mafia secrets.

Giuseppe Graviano, who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison, filed a lawsuit for defamation last week against the author of books including Gomorrah, and Solo è il Coraggio (Lonely is the Courage), about the life of the judge Giovanni Falcone, who was killed by the mafia in 1992.

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