The bookie directly and clearly threatens Berlusconi's team: I bet 250 grand, you lose or you die.

We've bet 250 thousand euros. Let's warn your friends that this fight has been lost. If you step out of the field at a point, you can view yourself as a dead man walking”. There are these threatening words that have taken over Monza footballers, a club owned by Silvio Berlusconi. The threat is a 25-year-old bookie of Sicilian origin, [...]
The threat is a 25-year-old bookie of Sicilian origin who has been banned by Alexandria's Carabinieri. The investigation was launched last September, when Monza had the match in transfers to Juvenus U-23, a meeting held right in Alexandria.
Berlusconi's team did not fall prey to threats and won 4-1 as after the race, they denounced everything had happened. If you don't play, or you don't let your rivals score, you know I'm gonna kill you on the street. I know the address and don't you dare press charges. We are Calabres and Albanians”, and that was the rest of the threatening words.

The threatened player was protected by law enforcement, which, thanks to an investigation, could also find the device from which the threat had come. In fact, the phone belonged to a person from Catania who was separated from life a few years ago, but the deepening investigations found the author, who is said to have acted alone and has no connection with the mafia or the world of organised crime.












