Roberto Maroni

Italy arrests Mafia boss, on run for 15 years

People Daily (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Italian police arrested a top Sicilian mafia boss on Sunday who had been a fugitive for more than 15 years, dealing what a minister said was a major blow to the crime syndicate. Domenico Raccuglia, considered the most prominent member of the Cosa Nostra after the most wanted fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been convicted in absentia to three life sentences for murder and other Mafia crimes. Interior...

Mobster Domenico Raccuglia, 'The Veterinarian,' Is Arrested In Italy

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

ROME — Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said. Convicted mobster Domenico Raccuglia, who has been on the run for 15 years, now faces several life sentences for crimes including the murder of a rival's 9-year-old son, whose body was then thrown into a vat of acid. "Mimmo"...

Italy Says Terrorism Ring Is Broken

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

ROME -- Investigators have broken up an international terrorism ring in a series of raids in Europe, according to Italian officials. Seventeen people were arrested in a sweep that targeted a terrorism group allegedly involved in raising funds to finance terrorist activity, Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told a news conference. He didn't provide details on the nature of the alleged operations....

Italy: Libyan barracks bomber 'targeted' Berlusconi and other politicians

Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

The Libyan-Italian barracks bomber with the little bomb - had bigger plans! Rome, 13 Nov. ( AKI ) - The Libyan man who partly detonated his explosives at an army barracks in the Italian city of Milan in October, apparently had a dossier containing information on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and other politicians, Italian media reports said on Friday. According to joint investigations by...

How Safe are Canadian Forces Bases?

Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

From personal experience , I can tell you that a blind one legged narcoleptic could attack any number of Canadian Forces Bases with ease. Access to Canadian bases is so poorly monitored, that in one case I know of a major highway passes through the base and anybody can simply drive in and walk around without so much as having to go through a checkpoint. In most cases, anybody can get on base and commence...

Italy: Gov't worried about al-Qaeda linked terror cells

Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Italy: Gov't worried about al-Qaeda linked terror cells Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to carry out attacks in Italy. "Al-Qaeda is not present in Italy, however we are investigating terror cells...

• Italy: Al-Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks' - Eye On The World
• Italian interior minister: Barracks bombing a "turning point," more jihadist cells have "authorization" to carry out attacks - Jihad Watch

Scum rising to the top

Charles Lambert (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Last night's edition of Anno Zero talked about Fondi, the town I've lived in for the past eight years. Anno Zero is one of the programmes Berlusconi accuses of being fazioso , a holdall term that roughly translates as not being shamefully unbalanced in the speaker's favour. It's taken a while to look at what's been happening here, but it was good to see an entire edition dedicated to a situation that...

Italian police arrest suspected Camorra boss

The Observer (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

Pasquale Russo led one of the most influential clans of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate, officials say Italian police seized another suspected mafia boss today in what the government claimed to be a major victory against organised crime . Officials say Pasquale Russo, who had been on the run for over a decade, led one of the most influential and deadly clans of the Camorra, the Naples-based...

Italy to shut down anti-Berlusconi Facebook site

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009

L'Aquila, Italy - The Italian government has ordered the closure of a group on the social networking website, Facebook, calling for the death of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an official said Thursday. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni also indica...

Italy: Interior Minister Refuses To Allow Islamic Education In Schools

Torchlight (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009

This story comes to us from AKI; Roma, 19 October (AKI) - Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni from the anti-immigrant Northern League party said he would not back a proposal to teach Islam in Italian schools to improve integration. "The...

• Italy: 'No to teaching of Islam in schools', says minister - Islamization Watch
• Sanity in Italy: Roma, 19 October... - Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Italian PM: Arrivals of illegal immigrants drop 90 pc since May.

Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Landings of illegal immigrants in Italy were reduced by 90 percent in the last five months, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday. In 2008 there were 19,000 arrivals, whereas in 2009 the number has so far dropped to 1,900 and this is clearly a very positive result, Berlusconi said. According to local media, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni explained that since May 5, when the Italy-Libya...

• Italian PM: Illegal alien boat landings have fallen 90% - Council of Conservative Citizens

Italian PM: Arrivals of illegal immigrants drop 90 pc since May

People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009

Landings of illegal immigrants in Italy were reduced by 90 percent in the last five months, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday. "In 2008 there were 19,000 arrivals, whereas in 2009 the number has so far dropped to 1,900 and this is clearly a very positive result," Berlusconi said. According to local media, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni explained that "since May...

Outcry as Italy legalises vigilante patrols

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009

Silvio Berlusconi's government, which has already put several thousand soldiers on the streets of Italy, will tomorrow legalise vigilante patrols and set out the guidelines under which they will operate. The plans prompted an outcry from opposition politicians and police unions, but got a mixed reception from Italy's mayors, who must decide whether they want law enforcement volunteers in their towns....

Rift Between the North and the South

No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009

The rift between the northern and southern EU states is set to grow larger as yesterday's meeting of EU Interior Ministers in Stockholm postponed any re-examination of the Dublin II Regulation till 2014. The Dublin II Regulation, which stipulates that migrants must apply for asylum in the first EU member state they enter, has resulted in what southern EU states claim is disproportionate pressure on...

BNP leader: sink boats with migrants on board

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009

Boats carrying illegal migrants to Europe should be sunk Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, said yesterday. In a provocative intervention, Griffin, elected to the European parliament last month, called on the EU to introduce "very tough" measures to prevent illegal migrants entering Europe from Africa. "If there's measures to set up some kind of force or to help,...