The threats of the Camorra in Saviano in October 2006 they are – were – fake news. At the very least, to date there is nothing to prove it.
And it can be explained by following the bizarre order of the events that followed one another. It's October 2006 - precisely - Gomorrah It's been out for a few months but it's not yet the commercial phenomenon which he would only become from then on. The only fact that is known, 5 thousand copies sold out in the week of launch. Undoubtedly a great debut, and that's where we are.
Wikipedia today participates in the historicization of lies, with this passage written on the page about the writer.

In the next passage the encyclopedia mentions the strengthening of the escort decided in favor of the writer following Santoanastasio's requests to move the Spartacus trial, the lawyer of the defendants (including the boss Antonio Iovine).

As we had the opportunity to report in a article on Saviano from a few years ago, there is no logical reason to consider a request to move - a common practice in trials - as a threat to the writer or to Rosaria Capacchione. Not to mention that, according to the statements reported by Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2014, Antonio Iovine himself wanted to dissuade his lawyer from pursuing who knows what "intimidating" statement with a sharp: “You're stupid, but who is he, what do we care about this Saviano?”.
The reality is that the case of Spartacus process it was the first useful pretext to reinforce the dominant narrative about the "investigative journalist threatened with death", set up since October 2006 we were talking about before, but on an even weaker basis.

The only thing that is known is that Saviano goes to a demonstration in Casal di Principe, thunders against the Camorra bosses, and that to date there is only audio of this event, also of low quality, su youtube. We can no longer find - at least following canonical searches - even the service of One who interviewed him.

The same boss Iovine, in a court deposition, he limited himself to speaking in court stating that he had a "bad opinion of Saviano", in an intervention that says everything and nothing, but which every now and then is relaunched on the web as alleged "proof" of the threats addressed to the writer.
But there is some concrete evidence of these threats? Nope. The press (specifically Republic) who at the time greatly stirred up history, published two articles. In the first read verbatim, reporting another secondary source published in l'Espresso, that the bosses “Michele Zagaria and Antonio Iovine, the most famous Francesco Schiavone nicknamed “Sandokan”, “They badly tolerated – we read in the long report – the success of Gomorrah, who brought their trafficking to national attention". Original sources? None. They just say it.

In the second article, dated 17 October 2006, we simply communicate the authorities' decision to escort Saviano. Meanwhile the writer comes hosted by Daria Bignardi. And since then, strangely, the commercial data on sales of the Gomorrah phenomenon.
source – https://oltrelalinea.news/2019/05/13/saviano-minacciato-una-fake-news/