Author: Italian News

That evening, there were 300,000 people on the streets of Atlanta. It was December 15, 1939 and the premiere of Gone with the Wind was taking place at the Loew’s Grand Theatre. It was the culmination of three days of festivities organized by Mayor William B. Hartsfield: a limousine parade with the film’s stars, receptions, thousands of Confederate flags and a masquerade ball. At the behest of the governor of Georgia, Eurith D. Rivers, that day was a statewide holiday. Many years later President Jimmy Carter remembered it as “the greatest event that occurred in the South in my lifetime.”…

It’s a matter of days now. It took a little longer than expected because “you shouldn’t play with fire, and a request for procedural review is something very serious.” The words are from a lawyer, Valter Biscotti, who deals with the crime case par excellence in Italy: the monster of Florence. The mystery of the monster of Florence: now the story starts again from Genoa https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/15/news/mostro_firenze_revisione_processo_genova_pietro_pacciani_ignazio_spampinato-423887082/?rss

Before Christmas, the Gran Sasso tunnel closes for three nights for scheduled works. The days affected are 16, 17 and 18 December: from 10pm to 6am the following day, the western carriageway – towards L’Aquila/Rome – of the Colledara/San Gabriele-Assergi motorway section will be closed. Gran Sasso tunnel, three nights of closures towards Rome. Here are the alternative routes https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/gran_sasso_traforo_chiusure_alternative-423885991/?rss

The investigation by the prosecutors of Enna on the high prelate of Piazza Armerina arises from the complaint presented by Antonio Messina, who suffered violence from Don Rugolo The investigation into abuse, the victim’s new accusations: “The bishop also covered up other priests” https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/inchiesta_abusi_vittima_accusa_vescovo-423885902/?rss

The first child, delivered by university student Chiara Petrolini in 2023, was also born alive. It took almost three months for the results of the tests on the bones found in the Traversetolo garden and the news is what was feared. “The first child that Chiara buried in the garden was also born alive”. The charge will be double murder https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/chiara_petrolini_neonati_sepolti_parma-423885887/?rss

Raids on RAI and the Polytechnic, two officers injured. Bernini: “Unjustified violence” Turin, new clashes. Written at the university: “Free glutton” https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/14/news/corteo_torino_sciopero_generale_scontri_studenti_polizia-423885736/?rss

Saint Lucia’s, according to a popular saying, is the “shortest day there is”. That’s not really the case: of course, there are not only many hours of light in mid-December, but the shortest day of the year is the winter solstice, which falls around December 21st. The saying, however, has a kernel of truth: December 13th was in the past the date of the “shortest day there is”. However, things changed about 450 years ago. Because it’s not the shortest day The saying refers to when the Julian calendar was in force, replaced by the Gregorian one in 1582. Before…

pisa – «We don’t meet much with Emiliano, when he works I sleep and vice versa – begins Ilenia Braccini, the wife of the lorry driver injured in Calenzano – even last Monday he left at two in the morning to go to the depot, I saw him on Sunday evening . Calenzano massacre, the wife of the transporter Emiliano Braccini: “I hope my husband is safe” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/13/news/calenzano_eni_moglie_emiliano_braccini-423883403/?rss

The Stupor mundi, the one “who shone on the people” – as his son Conrad IV remembered him – died forever on 13 December 1250. Many have seen Frederick II of Swabia as the first modern sovereign, who endowed the South with a efficient administration and a coherent body of laws. Highly cultured (he spoke six languages) and refined, among other things he built Castel del Monte, in Puglia, and transformed the court of Palermo into a center of culture and art that had no equal in Europe at the time. He always had to fight against his bitter enemy,…

For months the bishop of Piazza Armerina Rosario Gisana has been at the center of controversy, the judges of Enna who condemned the pedophile priest Giuseppe Rugolo have slammed the monsignor for having «omitted any initiative to protect minors, facilitating the predatory activity of a prelate already subject to reporting”. “He covered a pedophile priest.” Gisana, the bishop of Piazza Armerina, is under investigation for perjury https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/13/news/piazza_armerina_vescovo_indagato_procura_enna-423883737/?rss

Nine months after the searches, a huge seizure arrives for the volcanic professor Salvatore Messina, the director of a dramatic scam committed on the lives of hundreds of students enrolled in his Italian-Bosnian ghost university, a university never recognized, neither in Italy nor abroad. Ghost university, 3.5 million seized from professor Messina. The two sons are under investigation https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/12/news/bosnia_gate_universita_fantasma_sequestri-423881834/?rss

Convictions at the court of Lucca for the death of Sofia Bernkopf, 12 years old from Parma, who died on 17 July 2019 in hospital following an accident in the swimming pool of the Texas bath in Marina di Pietrasanta four days earlier, on 13 July. After eight people had been sent to trial, the court sentenced the pool supplier and installer to 4 years; at 3 years and 2 months the person in charge of the swimming pool and lifeguards. The lifeguard, 21 years old, on duty at the time of the events, was fully acquitted. Established provisional amounts…

The clue is that they intervened on the wrong line or caused them to spark Calenzano massacre, the prosecutor’s hypothesis: workers’ mistake on the pipelines https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/12/news/esplosione_calenzano_eni_inchiesta_incidente-423881523/?rss

Giacomo Dandrea, head of Sergen, the Lucanian company where two of the 5 dead worked, avoids the questions. The accusations of Fiom CGIL Calenzano massacre, the owner of the company avoids the questions: “I don’t know what you are talking about” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/12/news/esplosione_calenzano_sergen_titolare-423881461/?rss

There continues to be a solid criminal axis between Sicily and Calabria. A group of traffickers from Palermo imported fifteen kilos of cocaine a month, the drug was purchased by some ndrangheta members who were very active in the Locride area and in the Gioia Tauro plain. Palermo, 15 kilos of cocaine from Calabria every month. The “king” of traffickers is in handcuffs https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/11/news/palermo_droga_calabria_indagine-423879669/?rss

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Stavropol Territory, on 11 December 1918. His father, an officer in the imperial army, had died even before his birth. His mother, an educated woman of Ukrainian origin, raised him in difficult circumstances but instilled in him a love of literature. He will become a great writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970. With his works – such as the Gulag Archipelago – he made the world aware of the reality of repression in the Soviet Union and, in particular, the system of terrible “re-education” camps, where he himself was detained for years. He…

The Prato prosecutor’s office investigates for disaster: safety procedures ignored. The warehouse and the company that was carrying out the maintenance work were searched. The key witness: “There were workers who were working on some pipes” Prosecutors’ accusation: “Wicked conduct behind the Calenzano massacre” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/11/news/calenzano_esplosione_eni_ditta_matera-423878781/?rss

MILAN – In the house with the mill, among the framed photos, there is one with the trunk of a tree and dozens of syringes stuck in it. It says: Parco Lambro, 1984. It is a warning not to forget the social swamp of heroin that swallowed up young lives, in this green lung between the San Raffaele hospital, the ring road and the blocks of flats of Milan 2. Forty years later , around Cascina Molino Torrette, flowers have grown and so has Don Antonio Mazzi’s Exodus foundation. 2024 is a year of round numbers for the priest of…

Impossible to find a traffic policeman in Setteville, in the Belluno area. None of the candidates were able to even pass the first test of the competition. The Municipality had banned it in September, 23 of them applied, five showed up, but no one was able to pass the first written test. The exam consisted of the drafting of an investigation or a resolution or determination scheme or another administrative act, and in a series of open and multiple choice questions. All too difficult for the candidates: no one achieved the necessary score to pass the test. However, we will…

We mourn the victims, we drown in the pain of still not knowing if our husband, father, son included in the missing list, is also dead. We strive for hope, even though it is now almost night and the chances of finding anyone alive in the pile of rubble left by the explosion are now reduced to zero. The lives of the victims of Calenzano on the tankers: “Always traveling with fear” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/10/news/vittime_calenzano_racconto-423868122/?rss

See under “big films”: on 10 December 1962 – at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London – there was the world premiere of Lawrence of Arabia, based, rather loosely, on the life of the British writer and soldier TE Lawrence and his novel I seven pillars of wisdom. Over 220 minutes of film – not counting overture, interlude and final music – in a very sumptuous package (among other things, legendary soundtrack by Maurice Jarre). It won seven Oscars, a triumph for the public and critics, perhaps the greatest achieved by David Lean, the king of blockbusters at the…

The truck driver Marco Giannini was waiting to refuel: “I was hit by a barrage of shrapnel then I passed out. But life gave me another chance” “I survived the hell of Calenzano because I was still in the queue” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/10/news/feriti_calenzano_parla_sopravvissuto_esplosione-423867776/?rss

The start of the new week will also be marked by cold currents arriving from Northern Europe which will continue to cause rain and snowfall even at low altitudes. A deep depression, driven by polar currents, will rapidly cross central-northern Europe, to then plunge into the Mediterranean basin directly from the Rhone Gate: our country will therefore be hit by a real frozen lake, which will affect the weather for many days. Frost and snow at low altitude Antonio Sanò, founder of the website www.iLMeteo.it, explains that the entry of cold currents onto our seas will favor the formation of…

We remain the country of bribes. The active participation of citizens is essential to maintain high attention on one of Italy’s endemic evils The Italy of corruption, the duty to rebel even in the workplace https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/08/news/l_italia_della_corruzione_il_dovere_di_ribellarsi_anche_sul_posto_di_lavoro-423855924/?rss

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day, approved by the UN. An anniversary that concerns us directly, as in Italy corruption persists and resists over the years. From the time of Tangentopoli. Indeed, it has spread further since then. The infinite Tangentopoli for one Italian out of two. We remain the country of the corrupt https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/09/news/corruzione_italia_classifica_sondaggio-423855854/?rss