At 2.59am on Wednesday 18 December Ottavia Piana was taken out of the Abisso Bueno Fonteno cave, in the Bergamo area, where she had an accident last Saturday afternoon. At the base camp of the Fonteno sports field, the rescuers’ headquarters for more than three days, all night long the speleologist’s parents waited to hear the news that everyone was waiting for. The nightmare is over. However, now the phase of hospitalization begins for the…
On December 24th the Holy Door opens in San Pietro, on the 26th in Rebibbia. The hematoma on the jaw, the trip to Corsica, the busy agenda for the Holy Year Pope Francis turns 88: a day dedicated to Christmas and the Jubilee https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/17/news/papa_francesco_compleanno_88_anni-423891335/?rss
The Ministry of Culture today signed the expropriation decree of Villa Verdi and its appurtenances, Giuseppe Verdi’s final home in Villanova sull’Arda, in the Sant’Agata area. The provision establishes the definitive acquisition by the State of the master’s final resting place. “Villa Verdi is the symbol of Italy’s cultural greatness and the place where the maestro found inspiration for many of his immortal compositions. Thanks to this important act, the State guarantees its protection and…
We are all the same.” Kate writes it down on a piece of paper with disarming innocence, while drawing leaning against the kitchen table. For her, who is just eight years old, having two mothers is not at all unusual. And neither is the fact that, just over two years ago, he addressed one of the two with the nickname “dad”. “Before we were husband and wife, now we are two wives and we love…
Tomorrow morning in Genoa the hearing with the judge while in Rome in the afternoon the event, with Maurizio Lupi and Enrico Costa, in the room named after Matteotti. And in the future of the former president there is a communications agency with trusted partners Toti agrees to a plea deal for corruption and presents his book to the Chamber on the same day https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/17/news/giovanni_toti_patteggia_la_pena_per_la_corruzione_e_presenta_libro_alla_camera_sala_matteotti_maurizio_lupi_enrico_costa-423890830/?rss
Tragedy in Sardinia One of the young men allegedly shot the second one in the back of the head by mistake and then took his own life. The Carabinieri (the Italian police force) are currently investigating the mysterious deaths. Tragedy in Sardinia: two men aged 28 and 27 were found dead during the night by the police in the town of Mela Murgia in Quartucciu, near Cagliari. According to the first investigations by the Carabinieri,…
Francis visits the French island. The president gives him a book on the Paris cathedral and “Thank you for being here”. Macron flies to the Pope: evidence of a thaw in Corsica after the Notre-Dame case https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/16/news/papa_francesco_corsica_macron_notre_dame-423888823/?rss
«A garrison of memory, documentation, public denunciation and hope». Thus we read, under the vault of the former railway handling shed which has become the Memorial of the collapse of the Morandi bridge, a new piece of the city born right at the height of the pylon of the old bridge which collapsed on 14 August 2018 into the bed of the Polcevera. And when the very young Cesare, the son of the Genoese dock…
Goodbye toll booth during the day. With the minutes of agreement signed on 5 December between the managers of the Autostrade per l’Italia company and the national representatives of CGIL, CISL and UIL and of the autonomous Cisal and UGL, together with the territorial structures and the RSA, the end of the toll collector or, as the technical term dictates, the toll collector, i.e. the employee who collects the toll from motorists at the barrier.…
The outburst of former Paralympic athlete Patrizia Saccà: “An eternity at check-in due to a lithium battery. In Munich they didn’t want to let me go to the bathroom, an attendant blocked my brake and I burst into tears” “My plane trip became an odyssey because of the electric wheelchair” https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/15/news/viaggio_aereo_carrozzina_elettrica_patrizia_sacca-423887146/?rss
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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
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