BOLOGNA - Facebook has removed a controversial video of league leader Matteo Salvini, ringing the doorbell of the alleged Tunisian teenager, Yassin, in an electoral campaign stunt, which sparked strong protests by the Tunisian authorities.
In the video, Salvini asked the 17-year-old boy if he has been dealing with drugs. A lawyer for Yassin, Cathy La Torre says that they would fight till the end until the video has not been removed from Salvini’s social media page.
ROME – Marcello De Vito, president of the Capitoline Assembly (Rome city council) and spokesperson of the Five Star Movement, risks charges of corruption over the construction of the new AS Roma stadium, according to judicial sources.
TARANTO – The Italian government has authorised over 400 migrants to disembark from the Ocean Viking.
The migrants were expected to disembark Wednesday from the ship run by SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières, after a wait of four days to confirm a safe port. Meanwhile, the Alan Kurdi ship, run by the German charity Sea Eye and with 77 people aboard, has received permission to disembark in Malta. However, La Valletta refused to accept the Open Arms, carrying over 200 migrants, Corriere della Sera said.
NAPLES – A 28-year-old hospitalised with a suspected case of coronavirus does not have the disease, Italian media report.
The unnamed tourist is from China’s Hubei province, where the virus first broke out in the capital Wuhan. He has been in Italy for seven days and was hospitalised Tuesday.
The case was confirmed as negative.
Samples were sent to the Lazzaro Spallanzani institute of infectious diseases in Rome for analysis and where tests proved he did not have the illness.
TRIPOLI – Given foreign interference and more violent clashes between Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) and Fayez Sarraj’s Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), the GNA “will be forced to reconsider its participation in any talks,” their press office said on Monday.
ROME – President of Italy Sergio Mattarella gave a televised speech on Monday remembering the Holocaust, before warning that anti-Semitism is not an isolated historical phenomenon.
The event was named 'Day of Remembrance: 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz’, and it took place at the Palazzo del Quirinale. It included performances from the musician Ludovica Volari and the actress Valentina Bellè and speeches from the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni and the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina.
“There are people… who find islands somehow irresistible.” Lawrence Durrell
ROME -- The World Food Programme deputy executive director, Amir Mahmoud Abdulla, has strongly denied reports published by the Italian Insider quoting WFP sources alleging Dr. Abdulla had sexually harassed WFP women staff members.
NAPLES – Five allegedly corrupt Carabinieri paramilitary police officers were uncovered in an investigation by the anti-mafia unit in this southern port city and were placed under house arrest on Monday, according to judicial sources.
The five have been charged on account of corruption, the omission of official documents and the disclosure of secrets. There are three other carabiniere who have also been implicated, but have not been placed under house arrest. They have been suspended from service for a year.
