«I no longer exist – he says – if she meets me with someone give me life imprisonment. I don’t date anyone anymore.” At half past twelve, the mafia boss Franco Bonura returns home, to Via Ausonia, accompanied by a factotum. «Good morning, can I ask you some questions?», I ask him. Bonura, the free boss: “If I meet anyone, give me a life sentence”. And he says to the reporter: “Don’t write” https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/07/news/bonura_mafioso_libero_indagine-423836676/?rss
CAGLIARI – Two spouses, a 79-year-old man and an 82-year-old woman, were found dead in their apartment in Cagliari. It was the 44-year-old son who called the police when he found his parents’ bodies in the house in Via Ghibli. The medical examiner, from an initial inspection, ruled out that the death was due to violent causes and there were no signs of forced entry. To clarify the circumstances of the two deaths, the house…
CROTONE – The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Crotone Operations Department have arrested, in execution of a precautionary custody order in prison from the investigating judge, four family members of Francesco Chimirri, the 44-year-old killed on 7 October last by a gunshot fired by the deputy police inspector Giuseppe Sortino after having witnessed a road accident caused by the victim. They are under investigation for the beating of the policeman and accused, for…
Interview with the Turin businesswoman who was accused of betrayal at a party by her partner: “I have been defamed by many keyboard lions. The prosecutor is wrong if he asks to dismiss” Cristina Seymandi: “Do not acquit those who spread hatred online. The violence begins there” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/06/news/cristina_seymandi_segre_odio_violenza_in_rete-423826508/?rss
On 8 December, the day of Sant’Ambrogio, the largest ski area in the world turns 50. The Dolomiti Superski, around the Sella Group between Alto Adige, Veneto and Trentino, was born at the end of 1974 at the table of a hotel in Corvara, in Val Badia. Sandro Lazzari: “That pact born at the table, so 50 years ago we created the grand ski tour” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/06/news/sci_alpi_sandro_lazzari_superski_dolomiti-423826518/?rss
«We are imagining the component where the aeronautical activities will be concentrated in Turin Caselle». With these words, pronounced before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission of the Senate, trails of future for the aeronautics and aerospace sector begin to emerge above the skies of Turin. Leonardo brings the new super-fighter of the three-way alliance to Turin https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/05/news/leonardo_torino_gcap_caccia-423824723/?rss
«We are faced with a law of the sea that is leaking from all sides», Oscar Camps, the founder of Open Arms, the NGO which has filed a civil action against the former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, does not mince his words. accused in Palermo of kidnapping for keeping 147 migrants stranded on a ship in August 2019. Oscar Camps: “The flows decree, a law of the sea that leaks from all sides” https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/05/news/oscar_camps_decreti_flussi_critiche-423824393/?rss
It is one of the mysteries of naval history: the fate of the crew of the Mary Celeste remains shrouded in fog. The brig had sailed from New York Harbor in early November 1872 with ten people on board, bound for Genoa. The sailing ship was found a few weeks later, on December 5, adrift in the middle of the Atlantic, off the coast of the Azores. Its commercial cargo – alcohol, above all –…
“Not recognizing stalking is a lack of respect for the victim’s family. And it is yet another confirmation that the institutions don’t care about women.” Elena Cecchettin, Giulia’s sister, returns to talk on social media. This time he does it on the first degree sentence that sentenced Filippo Turetta to life imprisonment. Judgment and reality are not the same thing “A judicial sentence does not always correspond to the reality of the facts – Elena…
Two years ago, on January 11th, Lorenza Olcese woke up and stopped talking. “Suddenly, the sentences weren’t coming out. My son came home, and I wasn’t responding.” Lorenza is 62 years old, she worked with her husband in the family business, they sell air conditioners. disability day lorenza olcese stroke for therapies years waiting https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/04/news/lorenza_olcese_sanita_dopo_ictus_non_parlavo_piu_per_cure_anni_di_attesa_ho_pagato_io-423816274/?rss
Today’s almanac, December 4 On December 4, 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, also known as Bokassa I, crowned himself emperor of Central Africa in 1977. For the ceremony he emptied the state coffers for the ceremony, building a 2-ton eagle-shaped throne. He was well-known crimes and extravagances, but also served as the president. He became the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) after seizing power in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d’état on 1 January 1966. An…
«Let’s meet at the Santoro bar – he says on the phone – in a quarter of an hour». Santino Di Matteo, the justice collaborator who first revealed the secrets of the Capaci massacre, avoids staying in one place for too long. He has been out of the protection program for years now, and the State has never forgiven him for returning to Sicily in 1994 to look for his son Giuseppe, who had been…
Venice — Before being accompanied to the third floor of the Verona prison, in the section dedicated to sex offenders, in the cell he shares with another inmate, Filippo Turetta has time to talk to those who follow him every day. He spent a whole day in court. He awaited the verdict against him in an isolated courtroom, surrounded by prison police officers, where he spent all six hours of the judges’ chambers. Finally he…
VENICE – It’s sentencing day. Today Filippo Turetta, 22 years old, on trial for the feminicide of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, will be before the Court of Assizes of the Venice court to hear the verdict. It is the fifth and final hearing of a lightning trial. Filippo Turetta, today the sentence in the trial for the murder of Giulia Cecchettin https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/03/news/filippo_turetta_giulia_cecchettin_sentenza_processo_oggi-423810311/?rss
A recent YouGov survey certifies it: traditional fish and chips are still the second most popular dish in the United Kingdom… surpassed only by French fries alone. If cod has existed in the British Isles since the dawn of time, the love story with the potato has a beginning date: some sources date the arrival of the precious tuber in England to 3 December 1586. Sir Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician, brought it from the…
The circular on short-term rentals: the identity of guests must be verified, the Municipalities must check Viminale’s grip on key boxes, B&Bs in revolt: “We are discriminated against” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/03/news/piantedosi_b_b_key_box_rivolta-423805910/?rss
From green to grey. Every second 2.3 square meters of Italy lose color. 20 hectares per day are fading. In all of 2023, 72.5 square kilometers went from looking natural to the drab shade of concrete. The march of roads, roofs, car parks, construction sites and warehouses has proceeded inexorably since, in 2006, Ispra began regular monitoring of land consumption in Italy. Two square meters disappeared per second, Italy devoured by concrete https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/03/news/ispra_consumo_suolo_popolazione-423805716/?rss
A man died in an apartment fire that broke out today around 10.20 am in Jesolo (Venice). The firefighters, arriving from the local detachment, entered the house from which smoke was coming out, equipped with self-contained breathing apparatus, and began extinguishing operations. During the rescue, the man’s body was found and entrusted to the Suem 118 staff. The flames, which mainly affected the bedroom, were completely extinguished. Clean-up operations and an inspection by the officer…
Secluded but connected. The penitentiary police have seized around twenty telephones used by Italian prisoners belonging to criminal organizations in prison in the High Security pavilion. First the raid by the Parma Department and the Mobile Operations Department of Reggio Emilia under the direction of Commander Mauro Pellegrino who found five smartphones with SIM cards and USB cable for charging, then the operation of the penitentiary police, in the presence of the magistrate of surveillance…
“The head of the crown-wearer lies restless,” says Shakespeare’s Henry IV. While waiting for the official reopening of the Parisian cathedral, scheduled for next December 7th, we remember the coronation which took place at Notre-Dame exactly 220 years ago, on December 2nd 1804. That morning Napoleon woke up early in the Tuileries and with the his Josephine reached the church in a carriage pulled by eight bay horses. Waiting outside, there were thousands of people,…
The wife of the US president, who will hand over to Trump on January 15, in her grandfather’s town, a hamlet of Messina The American first lady in Sicily: Jill Biden on Wednesday in the village of Gesso https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/01/news/jill_biden_sicilia_visita-423785887/?rss
The door of the home of the Fratelli di Italia MEP, Francesco Ventola, in Canosa di Puglia, in the north of Bari, was set on fire last night while the politician and his family were at home. No injuries were reported. The fire, which broke out around three o’clock last night, was apparently caused by the throwing of a Molotov cocktail. MEP Ventola’s front door set on fire: the FdI politician and his family were…
Whether it was an accident or an adverse event will emerge only after investigations. But one thing is certain at the moment: a worker at the Casaccia research center was contaminated by plutonium and Isin, the body responsible for monitoring, found out about it after 4 days. The Ministry of the Environment, however, became aware of it 8 days later, when the Ageei news agency launched the news. While the prosecutor’s office is still waiting…
Florence — «There is an issue of controls and security to be strengthened on the structures that welcome tourists, also by exploiting artificial intelligence as we are doing. But above all we need a national law that allows Municipalities to regulate short-term rentals.” Sara Funaro: “The police are not enough: let’s track down Bnb squatters with artificial intelligence” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/01/news/affitti_brevi_bnb_funaro_firenze_airbnb-423778269/?rss
The Chicago meat industry introduced assembly line prototypes. Then the idea was adopted at Ford. On December 1, 1913, at the Highland Park factory, the Model T began production entirely on the assembly line. The system allowed a car to be put together in just over an hour. An innovation that was not taken well by the workers: it was seen as an insult to the more qualified workforce and as yet another example of…
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