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Today Italian news media report the death of Raffaele Cutolo, founder/boss of 'Nuova Camorra Organizzata', a ruthless killer who'd been held under art. 41bis prison régime for 34 years. But,
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11 February 2004, Attilio Manca, a 34-year-old urologist from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Sicily), dies in his flat in Viterbo in mysterious circumstances. It is suspected that he unknowingly operated
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24 January 1944, future Presidents of Italy, Giuseppe Saragat (1964-71, photo right) & Sandro Pertini (1978-85, photo left) escape together from Rome's Regina Coeli prison, where they were detained by
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[Thread] My summary of Monday's RAI3 programme 'Report' begins with the murder of Piersanti Mattarella by Cosa Nostra in Palermo on this day in 1980. Letizia Battaglia's iconic photo shows
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5.20 a.m. Monday 28 December 1908, the city of Messina is asleep. The evening before saw the inauguration of the city's new public lighting system & a Christmas performance of
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Sunday 23 December 1984, an express train packed full of people going home or to visit relatives for Christmas is travelling from Naples to Milan. At about 6.30 p.m. 'Rapido
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The Italian government is staging an early season pantomine over management of Health Services in Calabria that might be laughable if it weren't in the middle of a pandemic and
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Short thread on events of 7 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly
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