Italy's thread 2020

[umbertino]

Italy declares own ports 'unsafe' to stop migrants arriving

 

Decree citing coronavirus claims Italy cannot guarantee security of migrants’ lives

 

 

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Published on Wed 8 Apr 2020 00.02 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/italy-declares-own-ports-unsafe-to-stop-migrants-disembarking

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Lockdown keeps casualty figure low as Italian bridge collapses

 

Two drivers slightly hurt but fall of 260-metre structure revives memories of Genoa disaster in 2018

 

 

Reuters

Published on Wed 8 Apr 2020 19.57 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/lockdown-keeps-casualty-figure-low-as-italian-bridge-collapses

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When will Italy's lockdown 'phase two' begin and what will it involve?

 

As the Italian government plans “phase two” of the national lockdown measures, here's what we know so far about what that means, when it might happen, and how long it will last

 

 

The Local

16 April 2020

10:02 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200416/a-summer-without-travel-how-long-will-italys-coronavirus-lockdown-last

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronavirus: Italy launches investigation into suspicious care-home deaths

 

Italian justice officials have launched an investigation into the suspicious deaths of nearly 200 people at one of Europe's biggest care homes, in Milan, since the start of the coronavirus outbreak

 

 

AFP

16 April 2020

17:23 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200416/coronavirus-italy-launches-investigation-into-suspicious-care-home-deaths

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will Italy's tourism businesses ever fully recover from the coronavirus shutdown?

 

The sector "will have to change" in future, business groups say, with tourism in Italy shut down completely due to the coronavirus outbreak

 

 

AFP/The Local

9 April 2020

17:19 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200409/will-italys-tourism-businesses-ever-recover-from-the-coronavirus-shutdown

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AP PHOTOS: Veterans honor Italy's WWII uprising from home

 

ROME (AP) — Veterans of Italy's anti-Fascist World War II resistance have held marches throughout Italy every April 25 since 1945, to honor the uprising that helped end their country's Nazi occupation

April 25, 2020

 

 

https://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/9876252-ap-photos-veterans-honor-italys-wwii-uprising.html#.1258-stage-hero1-1

 

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The Guardian view on Italy’s lockdown: no storybook endings

 

After nine weeks of confinement, Italians are back in the streets. But the most difficult decisions have yet to be made

 

Mon 4 May 2020 18.56 BST Last modified on Mon 4 May 2020 20.03 BST

Editorial

 

 

 

‘Given Italy’s role as a pioneer in the grim endurance test of lockdown, this moment of release feels like a minor landmark.’ Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, heart of downtown Milan

Photograph: IPA/Rex/Shutterstock

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/the-guardian-view-on-italys-lockdown-no-storybook-endings

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Puglia crimewave points to emergence of 'fifth' Italian mafia

 

Previously dismissed mob is characterised by ‘primitive’ forms of brutality, say investigators

 

Lorenzo Tondo

Tue 19 May 2020 12.00 BST Last modified on Tue 19 May 2020 12.01 BST

 

 

 

Christian Vigilante’s SUV, destroyed in a bombing in Foggia in January

Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/puglia-crimewave-points-to-emergence-of-fifth-italian-mafia

 

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Easyjet apologises for advertising southern Italian region's 'mafia activity and earthquakes'

 

Get a taste of real Italy by bunking down in mafia land, the ad said. But Easyjet's bid to pitch Calabria backfired, and the company was forced to apologise on Tuesday

 

 

AFP/The Local

23 June 2020

15:56 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

The seaside town of Tropea in Calabria. Photo: sea_and_sunset/Unsplash

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200623/easyjet-apologises-for-advertising-southern-italian-regions-mafia-activity-and-earthquakes

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabria

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes

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Italy breaks up child abuse ring 'that shared images of babies'

 

Police say material, including photos of acts with newborns, shared on a well-known instant messaging platform

 

Associated Press in Rome

Sat 4 Jul 2020 11.49 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/04/italy-breaks-up-child-abuse-ring-that-shared-images-of-babies

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Italian Foreign Minister demands to Cairo truth on Regeni murder

PM set to speak to commission of inquiry into student's death

18 June, 18:40

 

 

 

 

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2020/06/18/italian-fm-writes-to-cairo-demanding-truth-on-regeni-murder_5a664255-247e-44d6-a566-5ce42b1b1779.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Giulio_Regeni

 

 

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He's from my hometown....I got to know him before he went to the States...A common friends friend....Trento is a relatively small town ( pop: 100,000)

 

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-case-against-enrico-forti/

 

 

 

The case against Enrico Forti: Is he the Italian Amanda Knox?

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-case-against-enrico-forti-is-he-the-italian-amanda-knox/

 

 

 

https://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/obsession-of-the-day/2012/05/who-framed-chico-forti

 

 

http://chicofortifree.blogspot.com/p/english-version.html

 

 

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Milan, terrorism: propaganda Is on the web, arrested 30 year old

 

The man, Italian, radicalized since 2015 and in contact through social networks with other extremists, is being investigated for "instigation to commit a crime aggravated by the use of the electronic means", aggravated by the purposes of international terrorism and by the use of the IT tool and telematic

 

 

8/7/2020, 08:00:13

 

 

 

 

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-07-08-milan--terrorism--propaganda-is-on-the-web--arrested-30-year-old-.H14Se-kmJP.html

 

Good they got him

 

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Venice's much-delayed flood defence system fully tested for first time

 

Designed in 1984 and expected to be in service a decade ago, the project is still incomplete

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Fri 10 Jul 2020 15.50 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/venice-much-delayed-flood-defence-system-fully-tested-first-time-italy

 

Just another Italian shame

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Coronavirus brings tension and prejudice to Italy's beaches

 

Tempers fray over social distancing and visitors from Lombardy tell of discrimination

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Sun 12 Jul 2020 11.37 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/coronavirus-brings-tension-prejudice-italy-beaches

[umbertino]

‘Italy’s Robinson Crusoe’ despairs as eviction from island paradise looms

 

Mauro Morandi, 81, has lived on Budelli near Sardinia since his catamaran broke down in 1989

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Wed 15 Jul 2020 15.17 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/italy-robinson-crusoe-mauro-morandi-evicti

[umbertino]

Berlusconi's party: Forza Italia ( Come on, Italy!)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza_Italia

 

 

 

 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43039789?seq=1

 

 

 

https://www.economist.com/topics/forza-italia-party

 

 

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I must admit that among the 3 right-wing opposition parties ( Salvini's League and Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy) Berlusconi 's Forza Italia is the most reasonable and sometimes....some of what they say makes sense to me...

 

There...I said it

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Italian village celebrates first birth in eight years

 

Morterone’s population rises to 29 after birth of baby Denis

 

Angela Giuffrida

Tue 21 Jul 2020 14.00 BST Last modified on Tue 21 Jul 2020 14.30 BST

 

 

Denis is the first baby to be born to parents in Morterone for eight years. His parents placed a ribbon on the door of their home to announce his arrival

Photograph: Facebook / Comune di Morterone

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/21/italian-village-morterone-celebrates-first-birth-in-eight-years

[umbertino]

Dozens arrested in Swiss-Italian mafia sting operation

 

Italian and Swiss police have arrested 75 suspects in a vast operation against the 'Ndrangheta, the southern Italian mafia, seizing 169 million euros in goods

 

The Local

21 July 2020

11:29 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

The joint Italy-Swiss operation was one of the largest of its kind. Photo: TIZIANA FABI / AFP

 

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20200721/75-arrested-in-swiss-italian-mafia-sweep

[umbertino]

08:45

Italy to receive €210bn ($241.14B)  from new EU fund

 

Some EU member states have been setting out how much financial support they are likely to receive following the €750bn deal struck at the end of a marathon negotiating session on Tuesday morning.

 

Italy will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Covid-19 recovery fund as it is one of the hardest hit countries in Europe. Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, said it would receive 28% (€210bn) of the fund, of which €81bn would be in grants and €127bn in repayable loans.

 

Spain, which has also been badly hit, will also receive one of the highest amounts. It will receive €140bn, just over half of which (€72.7bn) will be grants and the remainder in loans to be repaid.

 

Greece said it would be allocated €72bn, though there was no detail on what proportion of that would be in grants.

 

France said it would get €40bn in subsidies as part of the EU package. The French government said it will set out more detail of its recovery plan on 24 August.

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/21/coronavirus-live-news-trump-backs-face-masks-as-patriotic-eu-set-to-agree-stimulus?page=with:block-5f169a358f088024316abe9d#block-5f169a358f088024316abe9d

[umbertino]

Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism

 

 

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-25-4-mussolini-and-the-rise-of-fascism.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Italy_(1922–1943)

 

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mussolini-founds-the-fascist-party

 

 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/The-Fascist-era

 

 

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/history/history-study-guides/what-was-the-impact-of-fascist-rule-upon-italy-from-1922-to-1945/

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Carabinieri arrested, barracks impounded at Piacenza

For drug pushing, extortion, torture

 

Redazione ANSA ROME

22 July 202014:40 News

 

 

 

 

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2020/07/22/carabinieri-arrested-barracks-impounded-at-piacenza_eff2570b-8a28-40c4-beed-1721c622a373.html

 

Very very very very very very BAD

 

I am disgusted as a Citizen at reading this......

Edited July 22, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Italian Carabinieri station in Piacenza shut over torture claims

 

A group of Carabinieri military police have been arrested and their police station closed after investigators uncovered a raft of alleged crimes taking place in the barracks

 

• 23 July 2020
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53510221

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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'Pusher cops' lauded for drug fight in 2018 (umb's note: WTF)

Six arrested for drug pushing, extortion and torture in Piacenza

 

 

Redazione ANSA PIACENZA

24 July 202013:36 News

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/07/24/pusher-cops-lauded-for-drug-fight-in-2018_94c1a011-6724-471d-b27e-ab791fa1b8ff.html

[umbertino]

Mick Jagger swans off to Italy after Trump controversy

 

13 July 2020

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/9327

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Italy's senate votes to lift Matteo Salvini's immunity from prosecution

 

Ex-minister faces kidnapping charges for preventing docking of migrant rescue ships

 

Associated Press in Rome

Published on Thu 30 Jul 2020 19.05 BST

 

 

 

 

 

Matteo Salvini refused to allow 164 migrants to get off a ship in Sicily in August 2019. Photograph: Simona Granati/Corbis/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/30/italys-senate-votes-to-lift-matteo-salvinis-immunity-from-prosecution