Italy Crime News and Criminal Investigations

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than nine out of ten refugee and migrant children arriving in Europe through Italy this year are travelling alone, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday, warning of "appalling" risks children face...

  A 2014 report by Italian government estimates that more than €3 billion has already been spent on 693 unfinished (and abandoned) structures in Italy. The bridge of San Giacomo dei Capri in Naples looks like it came out from an...

The story of the Beasts of Satan began in Golasecca, a small town near Varese, when the police discovered inside a greenhouse next to a cottage , the disfigured body, partially buried, of Mariangela Pezzotta, 27, daughter of a...

Roads closed to create private racetracks near Etna. Hundreds of Youtube videos showing horse gigs at crazy speed on city streets. Criminal exploitation of horses is a phenomenon always existed, even if mostly submerged. Sometimes, police search for weapons and...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will. In April 1920 Aleister Crowley moved to Cefalú, Sicily, to run a commune known as Abbey of Thelema, a small house...

The woman who turned people into soap. Born in Montella di Avellino in 1893 and marked by an unhappy childhood, in 1914 Leonarda Cianciulli married Raffaele Pansardi, a clerk in the registry office, and went to live in Lariano...

'Father our pain', they said, 'Will lessen if you eat us you are the one Who clothed us with this wretched flesh: we plead For you to be the one who strips it away'. … And I, Already going blind, groped over my brood Calling...

Like the stereotypical vision of Coppola's film about the Mafia, the soundtrack of Camorra is based on the romantic notes of neomelodic, a musical style originating from Naples, whose representatives are sometimes tied to criminal circles. This music is based...