“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…
The woman responsible for the ASL bribes in Bari remains in prison. “It’s not easy to pocket money… you can’t joke with money, you’ll go to jail…”: Connie Sciannimanico said this last June, speaking on the phone with a friend of hers. He was talking to friend about a colleague from the local health authority who had been transferred because he was suspected of having favoured entrepreneurs in exchange for money. Caught by a paper…
A new serious episode of violence against the school’s teaching staff occurred this time at the Paciolo-D’Annunzio high school in Fidenza. The parent of a student punched a teacher in the face, who required medical attention. At the origin of the aggression there would be arguments originating from the violent behavior carried out at school by the child of the violent parent. The episode shook the Fidentina school community. A banner condemning the violence was…
When it was built, in 1851, the Crystal Palace in London was a true pride of Victorian civilization, a prodigy of iron architecture. Completed in a few months of work in Hyde Park – and inaugurated by the Queen herself. After hosting the Great exhibition of 1851, (it was the reason why it was built) it was dismantled and reassembled in a park a little outside the city, in Sydenham Hill, around which an elegant…
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg declared inadmissible the appeal presented by the lawyers of Sabrina Misseri and Cosima Serrano sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2017 for the death of Sarah Scazzi, the fifteen year old killed on 26 August 2010 in Avetrana, in province of Taranto. Sarah Scazzi, no from the Supreme Court to the premium permit for Sabrina Misseri: “Socially dangerous” 24 March 2022 The appeal was presented to the…
He had been a chain smoker all his life, the master. In 1923 he began to suffer from chronic sore throat and the following year the verdict came: inoperable tumor. Puccini made one last attempt and went to Brussels to undergo an experimental surgery, but died on November 29, 1924, aged 65. Greatest Italian composer of the early twentieth century, for many years – too many – his enormous success among the public did not…
VIGEVANO — League against League. Thus began, an internal struggle in the Northern League. It ended up with handcuffs and warnings. For corruption. And the outcome is mocking: both factions got into trouble – at the end of two years of investigations by the judiciary. “Corruption to keep the council from falling”, the Northern League mayor of Vigevano arrested https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/29/news/vigevano_arresto_sindaco_andrea_ceffa-423760262/?rss
Every time the right opportunity arises, and the context allows it, Imperia’s chief prosecutor Alberto Lari repeats the same blessed words. He also did it two evenings ago, in Diano Marina, an area at the center of a recent first degree sentence on drug trafficking and extortion, with 22 convictions of which 17 with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. Mafia in Imperia, the chief prosecutor Lari: “No one reports”. Mayor Scajola: “Because he…
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake occurred in the province of Cosenza with its epicenter in the municipality of Mangone. INGV announced this, explaining that the earthquake occurred at 00.54 at a depth of 20 kilometres. A second shock of magnitude 2.0 was detected at 1.16 with an epicenter 4 km east of Mangone. The earthquake was felt in Cosenza city, but also in Rende and neighboring towns where citizens were woken up in the middle of…
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