“There is no bounty on me, I don’t feel threatened” – Corriere.it

«I want to reiterate it so as not to fuel a further, useless reason for conflict: I do not feel threatened and I am sure that there are no bounties or anything else on me. If there had been real risks or threats of this seriousness, I would certainly have been informed about it and it never happened”. Thus, with a post on Twitter, the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, returns to the case of the alleged bounty instituted by the Wagner brigade.

I want to reiterate this so as not to fuel a further, useless reason for conflict: I don’t feel threatened and I’m sure there are no bounties or anything else on me.
If there had been any real risks or threats of this magnitude, I would certainly have been informed about them and it never happened.

— Guido Crosetto (@GuidoCrosetto) March 16, 2023

The bounty, according to recent information, would be around 15 million dollars. Last Monday, Crosetto had declared that «the exponential increase in the migratory phenomenon that departs from the African coasts is also, to a considerable extent, part of a clear strategy of hybrid warfare that the Wagner division, mercenaries in the pay of Russia, is implementing, using its relevant weight in some African countries». The head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had replied that «Crosetto should look less in other directions and deal with his own problems, which he probably hasn’t been able to solve. We are not aware of what is happening with the migration crisis, we don’t deal with it, we have a lot of our own problems to deal with’, and he called the minister ‘mudak’, a term which in Russian corresponds to a heavy insult .