TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRANCOISE MICHEL – Picture taken 18 Septembre 2007 of Lirio Abbate, a journalist under police protection after receiving death threats from the mafia. Lirio Abbate, correspondent for Italy’s ANSA agency in Sicily and for La Stampa daily, has been under police protection after receiving death threats following the publication last spring of his co-authored book on the associates of the Sicilian Mafia boss. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO