Author: Mariangela Pinto

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

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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

The eternal boy, son of a cobbler and a washerwoman and eight decades of an incredible existence Gianni Morandi, the 80th birthday party: “More than death I’m afraid of forgetting” https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/09/news/gianni_morandi_80_anni_festa_compleanno_ricordi_cantante-423855847/?rss

With yesterday’s Consistory the Pope gave the finishing touches to the future Conclave, bringing out a new generation of cardinals Bergoglio and the rise of young cardinals: “In the next twenty years they will count” https://www.repubblica.it/vaticano/2024/12/08/news/concistoro_2024_cardinali_papa_francesco-423844781/?rss

A San Lorenzo At Piero Pizzi Cannella’s house: “The world and others in my atelier where everything talks about painting” https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/08/news/a_casa_di_piero_pizzi_cannella-423843234/?rss

Genoa — «We ​​did not expect such a stir, despite realizing the importance of the Festival in Italian society. But let me underline one thing: we are telling thousands of beach establishment managers that they have to compete and for a public good that is worth millions and millions, why should it be different?”. The president of the TAR: “The tender for the Sanremo Festival like the one for the beaches, Europe is asking for…

Just over 3 percent of the eight thousand damaged people decided to take civil action. And the municipality of Ostra, where there were five victims, is excluded from the disaster areas The Flood in the Marche, trial begins. But only 250 ask for damages: “Distrust in justice” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/07/news/alluvione_marche_processo_solo_250_chiedono_i_danni-423837941/?rss