This Italian-language interview at IlCittadinoOnline.it just came to my attention.

In it, Soldera clarifies that he never spoke of mafia.

“I’m not afraid,” he tells the interviewer, describing the vandalism as an act of “intimidation.”

“They picked the wrong man” to intimidate, he says.

You might recognize the photo: they lifted it, without attribution, from my blog.

Posting in a hurry from the road today…