The Italian police have arrested dozens of Mafiosi, including the new head of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. In total, 46 arrests were carried out in the province of Palermo on Tuesday, police said.
The east of Sicily was hit by a small earthquake in the night from Friday to Saturday. Because of the quake with a force of 4.8, residents of the volcano were startled by Etna. Buildings suffered limited damage and several people were slightly injured.
Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'
The Italian Public Prosecution Service is investigating the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Matteo Salvini. He is accused of heavy deprivation of liberty because he did not want to leave about 150 boat refugees on land. He could get fifteen years in prison.
The Italian police found more than 20 tons of hashish in a ship's two fuel tanks with a street value of 150 to 200 million euros. The eleven passengers, all from Montenegro, have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
The most active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna, glides very slowly towards the sea. According to scientists, the mountain on the Italian island of Sicily moves 14 millimeters per year to the Mediterranean.
The changing of the electoral system, incorrectly printed or incorrectly delivered ballots and a good turnout have resulted in long queues for polling stations in some places in Italy on Sunday. In Palermo, approximately two hundred polling stations were open hours later than intended, because the ballots were not virtuous and had to be printed and delivered again.
A week before the parliamentary elections in Italy, tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in different cities of the country. Significantly more people than expected took part in an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome despite the bad weather. The protest was peaceful, said a spokesperson for the police in the evening.
A new training course for devil exorcers has been organized in the Sicilian capital of Palermo. It is badly needed, because there is a huge demand for exorcists in Italy.
With the arrest of 57 suspects, the police in Sicily struck sixteen Mafia lances on the Italian island. The \u0026 # x27; Operation Mountains \u0026 # x27; was carried out with four hundred police officers.
The Italian police have arrested twenty-five Mafiosi in a large-scale operation in Sicily. The 49-year-old Maria Angela Di Trapani is one of the 'biggest fish' that the police managed to capture.
The body of former Mafia boss Salvatore 'Totò' Riina was buried Wednesday morning in the Sicilian town of Corleone, near Palermo.
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Researchers have discovered traces of about 6000 years old in a cave in Sicily. Wine traces were found on the bottom of terracotta jars. The finding indicates the oldest wine in the world.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima resigned from the Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday evening at Palazzo Colonna in Rome. That happened after a concert and reception that the royal couple offered their Italian host as a gratitude for hospitality during the state visit started on Tuesday. With the farewell, this visit is formally completed, even though there is another follow-up in Milan on Thursday and Friday.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima go on the second day of their state visit to Italy to the capital of Sicily, Palermo. The island of Sicily, once part of a kingdom with Naples, rarely sees government guests coming to visit. The royal stay lasts only 5.5 hours, including the Sicilian concepts, very hard time for lunch at Mayor Leoluca Orlando.
There has been a sloop of 126 refugees in the Mediterranean. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) fears that the boat has been skipped and the occupants are drowned.
Beppe Grillo's Euroceptic Five Star Movement (Movimento5Stelle) has suffered considerable losses on Sunday during local elections in Italy. This is evidenced by exit polls of Italian media.
Great panic Saturday in the streets of the Sicilian city of Monreale, near Palermo. The Bengal albino tiger Oscar had escaped from his circus stay and then ambled slowly through the streets. The animal was so relaxed that he lay down quietly in front of the entrance to a hardware store and picked up the environment.
Large forest fires threaten the capital of Sicily, Palermo and other cities nearby. Several houses have already fallen prey to the flames and evacuated many residents, according to Italian media on Friday.
Together with other donors, the Italian coast guard Saturday more than 1,300 refugees from boats reached the Mediterranean Sea. The migrants tried in North Africa to make the crossing to Sicily.
In a large Italian police operation are Wednesday over a hundred suspected mafia members arrested. They are suspected of extortion and drug trafficking, among others, the police said.
Six members of a human trafficking gang convicted in Italy for the death of hundreds of people on board a refugee ship in the Mediterranean. The court in Palermo put the Eritrean condemned prison sentences of between two and six years on, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. It was the first time that the Italian court dismissed a case against traffickers sentence.
The Italian police foiled a plot by the Mafia to the Italian Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano, to murder. It has a source around the examination stated. The police officially confirmed only that a few arrests in the Corleone mafia stronghold was preventing a murder but called the name of the minister not.
