ROME — Ilaria Salis, the Italian left-wing activist who has spent 15 months in a Hungarian prison awaiting trial for allegedly assaulting two neo-Nazis, will be transferred to house arrest in Budapest.
A Hungarian court granted Salis' lawyers' appeal on Thursday. Her legal team had contested a March 28 decision forbidding Salis from moving to house arrest in either Hungary or Italy.
ROME -- A Swedish tourist died on impact after falling 15 M (50 feet) onto the bank of the Tiber early Wednesday morning, judicial sources said.
Corriere della Sera identified the 29-year-old as Anders Jacob Karl Ekman. Carabinieri said that Elkman landed on the riverbank between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Garibaldi after tumbling off the embankment wall of Lungotevere Sanzio, a stretch of Trastevere's riverside boulevard.
Carabinieri who viewed surveillance camera footage of the scene said Elkman was "visibly drunk" as he "staggered" along the Lungotevere's wall.
ROME -- Pasquale Napolitano, a reporter for the newspaper Il Giornale has been sentenced to an 8-month prison sentence for defamation according to judicial sources.
ROME -- Five members of the Contini Camorra clan have been arrested for allegedly running one of Naples’ most renowned pizzerias, according to police reports.
ROME -- The English Theatre of Rome will be opening auditions this week for a performance of “Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elise. The auditions will be held on Wednesday 15 May and Thursday 16 May from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Club Montevecchio.
American director, Carl Granieri, will be returning to Rome to tell the tale of a young orphan who eventually grows up to become Peter Pan.
