Milan, October 15, 2025 — A 29-year-old model and entrepreneur, Pamela Genini, was brutally murdered on Tuesday night in an apartment in the Gorla district of Milan. Her former partner, 52-year-old Gianluca Soncin, is under police guard in hospital after allegedly stabbing her 24 times and then attempting to take his own life.
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A devastating fire tore through the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery in La Valletta Brianza, near Milan, on Saturday night. Twenty-one cloistered nuns escaped as flames consumed parts of the historic building.
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Milan city council on Thursday approved guidelines for a possible new home for the Leoncavallo social centre, a week after its eviction. The proposed site is in a building in the city’s southeastern suburbs, with a potential 90-year lease, sources said. Police enforced the eviction order last Thursday against the long-standing leftist and countercultural squat. […]
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Police on Thursday enforced an eviction order against Milan’s historic Leoncavallo squat, a counter-cultural hub tied to leftist and anarchist movements.
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A Jewish father and his six-year-old son were assaulted at a service station near Milan on Sunday, in a disturbing escalation of antisemitic violence in Europe.
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Former Milan city planning officials and top executives faced preliminary questioning on Wednesday as part of a major corruption investigation into the city’s urban development sector. The case, led by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, centres on suspected favouritism and false declarations in the approval of construction projects between public officials and private developers.
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Milan’s Public Prosecutor has requested six precautionary arrests, including that of Giancarlo Tancredi, the city’s Urban Regeneration Councillor. The move forms part of a wide-ranging corruption and forgery investigation into urban planning and building development in the city.
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A 33-year-old Chinese man was arrested at Milan Malpensa airport on July 3 on a US espionage warrant. The arrest occurred shortly after he arrived in Italy, according to sources.
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Prosecutors announced Friday that the partner of 48‑year‑old Brazilian national Sueli Leal Barbosa has been formally arrested and charged with homicide and arson. The fire broke out at their fourth‑floor apartment on Viale Abruzzi 64 in Milan late Wednesday.
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A convicted murderer who had gone on the run after a stabbing incident in Milan has died after falling from the city’s iconic cathedral, the Duomo di Milano.
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