A macabre warning has been sent to the Italian author who wrote a best-selling book "Gomorrah" about the mafia gangs of Naples.
Police are investigating how a trail of twenty dead crows came to be left on beach near where Roberto Saviano was enjoying his summer holiday south of Rome.
The bodies of the dead birds had been planted in a regular pattern, 30 yards apart, on the beach at the exclusive resort of Sabaudia, near Anzio, where Saviano had been swimming.
Saviano has been under police guard since he wrote his book exposing the corruption operated by the Camorra crime syndicates in southern Italy. His book and the film that followed stirred public outrage and influenced a decision to step-up the police campaign against criminal gang leaders.
In Italy ravens and crows of a sign of bad luck and the find is being taken as a death threat to Saviano whose second book "Beauty and Hell" has just been published.
Forensic examination of the crows shows the birds had been poisoned and then frozen before being planted along the beach that is fronted by a string of exclusive villass.
Country rangers made the bizarre discovery and the Italian police and army are viewing CCTV tapes from cameras mounted on the luxury villas in the hope that those responsible may have been caught on camera.
A spokesman for the Italian 'Questura' investigators said: "It was intended that Mr Saviano's presence here was to remain secret."
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