No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wishing for a White Christmas has taken on a sinister new meaning in Coccaglio, Lombardy after the mayor Franco Claretti, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League, decided to " start to do some 'cleaning' despite Coccaglio being a country where immigration has never been a problem of security or public order ". The extensive house-to-house checks by immigration officials ostensibly...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni on Tuesday urged the European Union (EU) to help Mediterranean countries deal with illegal immigration, local media reported. Addressing a summit of Mediterranean interior ministers, Maroni said more resources were needed to combat migratory pressure at its root and enable transit countries to effectively manage the large number of African migrants who enter...
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...
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"...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ProgressiveIslam.info - Front Page (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Indonesia: Muslim civil servants obliged to read Koran. The city council in Gorantalo, central Indonesia, has ordered its Muslim civil servants to read the Koran - Islam's holy book - every Friday. Gorontalo mayor Adhan Dambea said Saturday that he was not yet satisfied with the implementation of his instructions. "Some civil servants are still unable to read the Koran fluently," he said....
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...
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...
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