It happened on a TV show on Mediaset: this is how the presenter was faced with a dramatic moment that worries her…
A roar in the heart of Rome, right on Via Fauro. a sudden explosion, which recalled the sad end of judges Falcone and Borsellino, protagonists of the “same mistakes” just a few months earlier: those who had sought and told the truth about the Mafia. Glass, walls and cars destroyed in seconds. An assassination attempt, a clear message between the lines: “You touched the Cosa Nostra, now we will make you pay for it”.
Maria De Filippi, still in the eyes of this attack
Maurizio Costanzo and Maria De Filippi You can still see those scenes in her eyes today. Her life was endangered in a matter of seconds when the mafia decided to do it Insert both into the viewfinder. The happiness of the two famous TV presenters was only one, and it was Costanzo himself who recounted it: “That evening, after we taped the episode of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, we were in another car. The gangster who was supposed to blow us up and start the TNT didn’t recognize the car immediately and neither did we inside, simply because the usual driver, with the usual car, he had asked me for a day off”.
A crucial choice. Today, Costanzo and De Filippi can run through and tell all the facts simply for this “lucky” reason: new car and new driver, meant in a very practical way a few more seconds of hesitation for whoever had to push that button. Exactly this button should unleash the force of 60/70 kilos of TNT. Just like in Capaci. But “something went wrong…”.
In the aired episode October 1, 2022 pu Channel 5, during transmission “Tu si que valleys” an illusionist Spanish named Antonio, shows a photo in his performancebrought Maria De Filippi back to everything we just described that took place on May 14, 1993. A few months after the Falcone and Borsellino bombings in Sicily in May and July 1992. The illusionist’s clue was only one: “It happened on May 14, 1993 at 9:35 am”. Of course, De Filippi immediately understood everything and replied: “A bomb went off…”.
Costanzo and De Filippi attack, the “change of plan” decides
But why were Maurizio Costanzo and Maria De Filippi targets of the mafia? At that time, the conductor had openly opposed the mafia on television, especially on the “Maurizio Costanzo Show”. Subsequent investigations confirmed that the bosses were in the studio on May 14, 1993 Matthew Messina money and Joseph Graviano. Among the crazy ideas was to have a massacre during the show, but too many people would have been involved.
Famous photo, the blue Mercedes from the attack on Costanzo and De Filippi
And so about Fauro. The dynamic is clear from the start. At the end of the show, the moderator gets into the car with his partner and future wife Maria DeFilippi and to the new driver nominated by the lessor. However, the mafia expects to find the usual Alfa Romeo and instead (due to the permission given to the trusted driver) There’s a Mercedes and a new driver. For this reason, the explosion occurs just after the car enters Via Fauro, causing damage to buildings, walls and vehicles, but not the deaths of the conductors.
during some job interviews In recent years, De Filippi has said: “…when the bomb exploded I hadn’t understood anything, I thought it was the fault of a boiler: I found a beam between me and Maurizio. My dog was in the car with me.” And he added: “I was scared for at least two years. For two years I snapped at the same time. I did hypnosis to get back to sleep. After the attack, I made Maurizio promise not to talk about the mafia anymore. The Costanzo show was taped at 7pm and aired at 11pm, so I freaked him out when he happened to be talking about the mafia.