Author: Mariangela Pinto

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…

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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…

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“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,…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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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There is a dispute in the centre-right, or perhaps not, over the reconfirmation of Evelina Christillin as president of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities Foundation until 2028. But in reality the act could bring with it the reconfirmation of Christian Greco as director of the museum. Egizio, the board of directors is compact: Greco towards reconfirmation. For him the ban is useless https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/28/news/egizio_cda_greco_verso_riconferma-423757390/?rss

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Very little is known about the life of Anne Shakespeare (born Anne Hathaway), other than a few references in legal documents. His personality and his relationship with the bard have been the focus of various speculations by historians and writers. What is certainly known is that on 28 November 1582, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the two paid forty pounds (a small fortune at the time) for an “express” marriage license which allowed them to marry immediately, without…

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The Supreme Court’s decision is expected today. Negligent disaster and annulment of the acquittals requested by the PG for the regional managers. “That day there was a risk of avalanche, the hotel had to be empty” Rigopiano, the mothers of the victims arrive before the Court of Cassation: “Now the truth, no more lies” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/28/news/sentenza_rigopiano_cassazione_mamme_giustizia-423753070/?rss

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Prosecutor Paola De Martino requested the indictment of five members of the family held responsible for the attack on five doctors at the Foggia Polyclinic last September 4, after the news that their 23-year-old relative, Natasha Pugliese, had died during a surgery. “In the hospital in Foggia we made Gomorrah, but my sister died and a family is sentenced to life imprisonment” Michela Magnifico 07 September 2024 According to what was reported by the Gazzetta…

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“I will never make my story yet another case of pain pornography: what happened to me and how I will tell it only in my small circle of close people.” This is how Francesca Ghio, the Genoese opposition city councilor, clarifies it yesterday The councilor who denounced the violence in the classroom: “My story to give everyone a voice” https://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/27/news/francesca_ghio_violenza_12_anni_intervista_genova-423740958/?rss

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The high school teacher and 24 economics students accused of copying, through the teacher, degree papers or exam sessions will get away with being put to the test and with an “appropriate” compensation offer to the University. One instead decided to go to ordinary trial (Marco Cesari), while another (Francesco Ceriana) agreed to a plea deal for three months converted into 180 hours of volunteer work. The Economics ‘scripts’ avoid the trial with useful work…

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The investigation into a round of certifications sent from Taranto to the rest of Italy by a network of 118 rescuers, ASL employees and anti-vax customers: the Prosecutor’s Office had asked for them to be archived but the investigating judge ordered otherwise Fake green passes worth 350 euros, forced indictment for 55 people: “To the limits of a procured massacre” https://bari.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/11/26/news/green_pass_falsi_covid_taranto_processo_procurata_strage-423733383/?rss

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