Profiting from 32 Deaths – Costa Concordia Tragedy
The Costa Concordia cruise ship incident claimed the lives of 32 innocent people. The captain of the ship, one Franscesco Schettino is likely to face charges of multiple homicide, failing to assist the victims, abandoning his ship and failing to communicate with maritime authorities. Such grave accusations are not stopping the good captain Schettino from profiting […]
Italy Has One Million Invisible Homes
The clampdown on fiddles in Italy is producing some remarkable results. How about discovering that more than one million homes in Italy are invisible? No, it is not April 1st! Presumably inhibited by millions of invisible Italians, these invisible homes have been identified from satellite images by officials trying to sort out Italy’s cadaster – […]
Amanda Knox Supported by Silvio Berlusconi
Amanda Knox, an American student in Perugia, her then boyfriend, an Italian Raffaele Solecito, and Rudy Guede were convicted of the murder of English student Meridith Kercher in a case which has sparked seemingly endless controversy. Now, even Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has become involved. Many in the United States of America are unhappy […]
Italy – The Vatican and the Mafia
When mention is made of Italy mixed in with thoughts of pasta and wine will be the Vatican and, the mafia.
Corruption and Extortion in Italian
Those of you who are not Italian, but read Italian newspapers, will often come across the words ‘corruzione’ and ‘concussione’. Do you know what ‘concussione’ means?
Free Camping in Italy
The incidents concerning attacks on German and Dutch tourists in Italy are sweeping the world, and these appalling happenings have been handled rather insensitively by the Italian authorities, as a read of the post on Beppe Grillo’s blog will tell you.
Mugging in Milan
This post has been updated to make it more accurate – Alex Roe, 22.02.1008. I was rather worried to learn from the guy I work with that he had been mugged a couple of weeks back. As if mugging in any circumstances were not bad enough, this case is worse. You see, this guy was […]
Rom or Romanian?
As I wrote a few days back, Italy has taken measures to extradite European Union citizens who have been involved in criminal activities here. The Italian law enforcement spotlight has been shining heavily on those from Romania, and the police have been rounding up Romanians by the dozen in preparation for having them sent back […]