Threats to Claudio Lotito: «You will be buried». Towards the trial of 22 suspects

Fast calls, even in the middle of the night. Death threats, intimidation of the family, insults and attacks on social media. The complaint against Lazio president Claudio Lotito, according to the Rome Prosecutor's Office, in some cases went beyond the boundaries of sports criticism to transform into a series of criminally relevant conduct. There are 22 people directly summoned to court on charges ranging from telephone harassment to threats, up to defamation and incitement to commit crimes. Among the most serious episodes, a phone call in which the kidnapping and murder of the son of the Biancoceleste president is threatened.

The public prosecutor Lucia Lotti signed the decree setting the pre-trial appearance hearing for 8 February 2027, before the Court of Rome. At the center of the proceedings is a series of episodes that occurred between 2023 and 2025, united by the same offended person: the senator of Forza Italia and president of Lazio.

The main core of the complaints concerns telephone harassment. Seventeen defendants must answer to article 660 of the Criminal Code for having made, according to the accusation, numerous calls to the utilities used by Lotito, even at night. Calls that the Prosecutor's Office considers to have no valid motivation and aimed exclusively at causing "disturbance and profound inconvenience" to the recipient. In some cases the contacts were repeated for months, with dozens of calls coming from the same user. A telephone pressure which, in the reconstruction of the investigators, would have gone beyond any form of legitimate expression of dissent.

But it is above all the threats that make the context of the protests more serious. A defendant is accused of having sent an email to the Lazio address announcing consequences for the president. “Sooner or later we will get rid of you,” reads the message reported in the judicial document. And again: «You are digging your own grave, for the umpteenth time, but this time it will be the last». The Prosecutor's Office contests the aggravating circumstance of the serious threat.

The content of a phone call attributed to another defendant is even more explicit. The man, according to the reconstruction of the prosecution, would have threatened Lotito, also referring to his son: "In fact, you know what we'll do, we'll take your son, kidnap him and kill him". Even in this case the serious threat is contested.