Rosaria Capacchione

Rosaria Capacchione
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office 19 March 2013 – 22 March 2018
Constituency	Campania
Personal details
Born	(1960-02-16) 16 February 1960 (age 64) Naples, Italy
Political party	Democratic Party

Rosaria Capacchione (born 16 February 1960) is an Italian politician and journalist, who served as an Italian Senator for the Democratic Party from 2013 to 2018.^[1] She has been a passionate investigative journalist against corruption and the Italian mafia.

Early life

From 1985 to 31 March 2018 she worked for Il Mattino in Caserta and Naples. She also writes for the Fanpage.it website.^[2]

She is the author of The Gold of the Camorra.^[3]

In 2008, Cappacchione was described in The Guardian as "one of the bravest reporters in Italy".^[4]

Due to her job as a judicial reporter and for her activity against the Camorra, she has been repeatedly threatened with death over the years and for this she is forced to live under guard.^[5] Despite protection, in October 2008, raiders broke into her home and stole a plaque she had been awarded earlier this year in honour of her campaigning journalism.^[6]

Political career

Cappachione was a candidate on the Democratic Party's list in the southern constituency in the 2009 European elections. She received about 73,000 preferences but failed to reach the threshold to be elected to European Parliament. Capacchione then pointed the finger at her party, accusing them of not having supported her.^[7]

She stood as a candidate for the Democrat Party in the 2013 general election.^[8][9] In November 2013, Cappachione branded footballer Mario Balotelli 'an imbecile' for refusing to rule out links with the Italian mafia ahead of the World Cup qualifier between Italy and Armenia.^[10]

In the Senate of the Republic, she was a member of the parliamentary anti-mafia committee and secretary of the justice committee.^[11][12]

She was not re-nominated for the 2018 Italian general election, as she was excluded from the Democratic Party lists. She had announced her decision not to reapply in April 2016.^[13]

References

1. "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Rosaria CAPACCHIONE - XVII Legislatura". leg17.senato.it. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
2. "Rosaria Capacchione | Napoli Fanpage". napoli.fanpage.it. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
3. Redazione (2013-01-03). "Rosaria Capacchione candidata Pd alle elezioni". Lettera43 (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-14.
4. Vulliamy, Ed (2008-10-04). "In the grip of Italy's bloodiest mafia clan". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
5. Donadio, Rachel (2008-11-28). "A Reporter Lands a Slot on Italian Best-Seller Lists and Hit Lists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
6. Pisa, Nick (2008-10-13). "Anti-mafia journalist's home burgled". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
7. "Rosaria Capacchione: Il Pd non mi ha sostenuto » Speciale Elezioni Europee 2009 - MicroMega". Retrieved 2019-12-14.
8. Redazione (2013-01-03). "Rosaria Capacchione candidata Pd alle elezioni". Lettera43 (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-12-14.
9. "Elezioni, il Pd candida la giornalista anti camorra Rosaria Capacchione". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
10. "Mario Balotelli branded 'an imbecile' for refusing to rule out links with Italian mafia ahead of World Cup qualifier between Italy and Armenia". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
11. "senato.it - Composizione della 2ª Commissione (Giustizia) nella XVII Legislatura". leg17.senato.it. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
12. "Parlamento.it - Organi parlamentari - Commissione Parlamentare di Inchiesta sul fenomeno delle mafie e sulle altre associazioni criminali, anche straniere". parlamento17.camera.it. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
13. "ELEZIONI POLITICHE 2018. NESSUN CASERTANO TRA I CANDIDATI DEL PD . HANNO GIA' VINTO RENZI, DE LUCA , I CONSIGLIERI REGIONALI GRAZIANO ED OLIVIERO". BelvedereNews (in Italian). 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2019-12-14.

Further reading

• Taipei Times

External links

• Italian Senate biography