On December 20, 1812, the Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales were published. The collection contains very famous stories, vaguely more gruesome than the Disney versions. For example, at the end Cinderella has her stepsisters’ eyes gouged out. Not that they didn’t deserve it, but maybe it’s a little too horror for today’s kids… The most famous Christmas story in the history of cinema, however, was released in American theaters on December 20, 1946. Overseas It’s a…
The Christmas turnaround is coming. Antonio Sanò, founder of the site www.iLMeteo.it, confirms that from the North Sea, passing through the Netherlands, 2 polar storms will change the Italian meteorological scenario in the next few days. Gale winds and cold In summary, the first polar storm has already approached Italy during the night and is causing extensive bad weather phenomena, in particular gale force winds off the coast of Sardinia, Bora gale force winds on…
castignano (Ascoli Piceno) — «We heard the ringing and no one opened the door, so we went. There were nurses and firefighters.” To anyone who met them, Emanuela Massicci’s two sons, aged just 11 and 12, told only this, only to then return to entrench themselves in a silence broken only by a disconsolate cry. Emanuela beaten to death by her husband. The children open the door to the rescuers https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/20/news/ascoli_femminicidio_emanuela_uccisa_a_botte_dal_marito_i_figli_aprono_la_porta_ai_soccorritori-423897693/?rss
RIPABERARDA (ASCOLI PICENO) – He killed his wife with a knife and then attempted suicide by cutting his wrists with the same blade. It happened this morning just before 7 in Ripaberarda (Ascoli Piceno). The man, an Italian, is currently hospitalized. The wife died following the stab wounds that her husband inflicted on her. The couple’s children were also present in the house at the time of the tragedy. The causes of the argument that…
Three deaths in one day: the “camallo” hit by a colleague on the quay of the port of Genoa, the mechanic crushed by the truck he was repairing in the industrial area of Cagliari, the worker hit by the tailgate of the truck being unloaded in the Salerno area.Continues The worker, the mechanic and the port clerk: endless massacre at work https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/incidente_genova_cagliari_lavoro_morti-423895382/?rss
The speleologist outside the cave at three in the morning after three days of travel in the tunnels. Friends: “We want you to come back and explore with us one day.” The volunteers: “Enough controversy about costs” Ottavia Piana, tears with her boyfriend and hugs to the rescuers: “I knew you would save me” https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/ottavia_piana_speleologa_bloccata_racconto-423895315/?rss
He takes the floor for the first time since Giovanni Toti, Aldo Spinelli and Paolo Emilio Signorini were arrested. Moreover, explains Genoa’s chief prosecutor Nicola Piacente shortly after the GUP’s approval of the plea bargains, with deputy Vittorio Ranieri Miniati at his side, «we have always tried to keep a low, sober profile. Plea deal Toti, the prosecutor Piacente: “Quick investigation. And not even a seized trowel” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/patteggiamento_toti_corruzione_il_procuratore_piacente_inchiesta_rapida_neppure_una_cazzuola_sequestrata-423895252/?rss
«Andrea and I arrived on November 8th together with a 40-foot container loaded with food for the families and children of Congo. We were supposed to stay until the end of December but he returned to Italy first because he had to close a company by the end of the year. Congo, the dead man’s partner: “We are traveling to the Equator, now he is patient zero” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/congo_febbre_emorragica_la_compagna_dell_uomo_morto_a_treviso-423893556/?rss
Two raids by the financial police in the Port Authority, passed almost in silence, certify that the investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Eppo (European Public Prosecutor’s Office), on the Genoa dam is in full swing. The financiers of the group that works exclusively for Eppo in the Turin office showed up at Palazzo San Giorgio on 10 October and 11 November to acquire various folders of documentation, partly downloaded from some computers…
Treviso, a 55-year-old found lifeless at home. ISS and ministry are investigating. African authorities: there is a serious form of malaria He returns from Congo with a fever and dies. “He looked after himself” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/18/news/congo_malattia_misteriosa_morto_treviso-423893301/?rss
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
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