Seventeen months after an explosion tore through an Eni depot near Florence, killing five workers, prosecutors have concluded their investigation and referred nine individuals to trial. They exonerated the energy giant as a corporate entity.
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Thursday’s tremor is among the strongest recorded during the ongoing bradyseismic crisis at the Phlegrean Fields. Ground uplift has now reached 140 centimetres since 2005 and a new study warns of a critical transition within a decade.
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Prosecutors have declined to pursue terrorism or racial hatred as aggravating factors against Salim El Koudri. His lawyer is seeking a mental health evaluation and new details emerge about the 31-year-old’s state of mind before and during Saturday’s attack in Modena.
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The 38th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Libro broke attendance records, filled halls beyond capacity, and confirmed that reading culture in Italy is not only alive but growing younger.
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Mario Landolfi, a 48-year-old unemployed cocaine user from the Naples area, was arrested on Monday after admitting to killing two women by throwing them to their deaths in an abandoned construction site in Pollena Trocchia.
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A deliberate ramming attack on a busy shopping street in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday left eight people injured, two of them requiring leg amputations. Investigators rule out terrorism and point to a history of psychiatric illness in the 31-year-old suspect.
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The Princess of Wales received a warm welcome in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia. Crowds gathered in Piazza Prampolini outside the city’s cathedral on Wednesday, many waving Union flags, as the Princess arrived for a two-day visit focused on early years education and child development.
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The 38th Salone Internazionale del Libro opens in Turin on Thursday with Zadie Smith delivering the inaugural lecture and Alessandro Baricco staging a night of words and music. The programme spans Greek crime fiction to football legend Roberto Baggio. The whole event is around the theme of children as the world’s last hope.
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Friuli Venezia Giulia’s Massimiliano Fedriga has retained his position as Italy’s most popular regional governor with an approval rating of 65%, according to a new SWG poll for ANSA. The survey reveals a striking gap between the country’s best and worst-performing regional leaders.
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Police have arrested three suspected murderers and issued 18 further precautionary measures in a coordinated operation targeting extortion rackets run by the Foggia mafia and its affiliated Gargano clans.
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