ROME - The Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) announced their solidarity with the Jewish community affected and offended by the resurgence of anti-Semitism that took place in Paris and in Italy.

 Raffaele Lorusso and Giuseppe Giulietti, general secretary and president of the FNSI, released a statement urging “each citizen and journalist to react firmly and to honor values ​​of respect for the dignity and differences that underlie the European Treaties, the Constitution and professional deontology.”

ROME – The Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) returned an important 16th century book, ‘Clarissima et Facillima in Quatuor facra Iefu Chrifti Evangelia,’ to Belgian Ambassador to Italy S.E. Dr. Frank Carruet after it was removed from the University Library of Mons in Belgium in 2005.

ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has signed three decrees granting pardon to three elderly men who murdered family members in despair. Franco Antonio Dri, Giancarlo Vergelli and Vitangelo Bini, murdered their drug addict son and wives suffering from Alzheimer's respectively.

PARIS – Italian bishop Luigi Ventura, papal nuncio to France, is under investigation for sexual assault accusations. The city prosecutor’s office is reviewing a report from a young man who claimed that Ventura “molested a municipal official,” Il Fatto Quotidiano reported, quoting from French newspaper Le Monde.

 The victim is allegedly a young official of the capital’s City Hall. The report claims that during an official ceremony at the Hotel de Ville on Jan. 17, the 74-year-old nuncio repeatedly violated the official.