https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A fugitive Italian mobster who had been living in Mexico under a false identity was behind bars Saturday after being tracked down on Facebook, police said. https://www.thelocal.it/20170311/facebook-search-traps-italian-mobster-in-mexico Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:54:34 +0100 facebook-search-traps-italian-mobster-in-mexico Italian police slapped cuffs on a fugitive on Thursday after a high-speed chase turned into a hobble when the mobster broke his ankle. https://www.thelocal.it/20160721/italian-police-nab-hobbling-mafia-boss Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:09:26 +0200 italian-police-nab-hobbling-mafia-boss Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, dubbed "the tractor" for the way he mowed his victims down, died on Wednesday after a long illness. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/italy-mafia-boss-bernardo-the-tractor-provenzano-dies Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:40:46 +0200 italy-mafia-boss-bernardo-the-tractor-provenzano-dies Dutch police have arrested a fugitive Italian mafia boss known in the Netherlands more for his lip-smacking pizzas than his links to organised crime, local media and prosecutors said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160520/star-pizza-makerand-mafia-boss-arrested-in-dutch-town Fri, 20 May 2016 10:00:08 +0200 star-pizza-makerand-mafia-boss-arrested-in-dutch-town The prized art collection of a mafia boss, confiscated by Italian police, has gone on show in Calabria in an exhibition billed as a "victory of the state" over organized crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20160510/art-loving-mafia-mobsters-collection-in-italy-show Tue, 10 May 2016 10:22:27 +0200 art-loving-mafia-mobsters-collection-in-italy-show The boss of an Italian company celebrated his 80th birthday by giving all 200 employees in his company a cash bonus. https://www.thelocal.it/20160420/italian-boss-gives-workers-200k-of-bonuses-to-celebrate-80th-birthday Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:45:07 +0200 italian-boss-gives-workers-200k-of-bonuses-to-celebrate-80th-birthday A mafia chief in southern Italy has been arrested by detectives disguised as pizza boys who delivered food to his home as he was watching a football match, police said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160418/pizza-delivery-cops-nab-mafia-boss Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:30:41 +0200 pizza-delivery-cops-nab-mafia-boss Anti-mafia campaigners and victims of the Mob voiced fury on Thursday after Italy's national broadcaster gave airtime to the son of Sicily's most notorious gangster to promote a book dedicated to his jailed father. https://www.thelocal.it/20160407/airtime-for-mafia-bosss-son-sparks-fury-in-italy Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:32:34 +0200 airtime-for-mafia-bosss-son-sparks-fury-in-italy An investigation is underway after a Sicilian town's Good Friday procession was redirected to pay tribute to a ruthless mafia boss. https://www.thelocal.it/20160329/investigation-opens-after-easter-parade-pays-tribute-to-mafia-boss Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:30:03 +0200 investigation-opens-after-easter-parade-pays-tribute-to-mafia-boss A court in Palermo has ruled a 65-year-old boss who allegedly groped two female colleagues was not guilty of sexual harassment but merely "immature". https://www.thelocal.it/20160202/italy-boss-cleared-of-sexual-harassment-for-being-immature Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:04:49 +0100 italy-boss-cleared-of-sexual-harassment-for-being-immature A lavish dinner, fireworks and special guests flown in from America: this is how the world’s oldest mafia boss celebrated turning 100 in his Sicilian town near Palermo, much to the fury of the mayor. https://www.thelocal.it/20160112/fury-as-mob-boss-throws-lavish-party-for-100th-birthday Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:26:16 +0100 fury-as-mob-boss-throws-lavish-party-for-100th-birthday Italian police have arrested a woman suspected of leading one of Sicily's most powerful mafia clans and helping them establish a flourishing trade in illegal fish. https://www.thelocal.it/20151216/grandmother-boss-hooked-for-illegal-fish-racket Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:32:00 +0100 grandmother-boss-hooked-for-illegal-fish-racket Italian authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of mafia "baby boss" Pasquale Sibillo, a 24-year-old suspected of orchestrating revenge killings following the death of his brother in Naples in July. https://www.thelocal.it/20151105/italian-police-arrest-mafia-baby-boss Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:16:20 +0100 italian-police-arrest-mafia-baby-boss Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has slammed the state-run broadcaster Rai for inviting the family of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica, whose lavish funeral sparked outrage last month, to appear on one of its shows. https://www.thelocal.it/20150909/rome-mayor-slams-rai-mafia-family-interview Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:48:08 +0200 rome-mayor-slams-rai-mafia-family-interview Italy's interior minister has demanded to know why a mafia boss was allowed a lavish funeral, with his coffin drawn through the streets of Rome in a gilded horse-drawn carriage as roses petals were dropped from a helicopter. https://www.thelocal.it/20150821/italy-wants-answers-on-mafia-dons-flashy-funeral Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:16:46 +0200 italy-wants-answers-on-mafia-dons-flashy-funeral More than two decades in prison spent studying and writing has made convicted Sicilian killer Giuseppe Grassonelli a changed man. https://www.thelocal.it/20150624/regrets-but-no-remorse-for-sicilys-mafia-veteran Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:43:00 +0200 regrets-but-no-remorse-for-sicilys-mafia-veteran A Sicilian former mafia boss who faced extradition to Italy after living in Britain for more than two decades has had his sentence dropped, his lawyer said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150402/extradition-of-ex-mafia-boss-from-uk-dropped Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:13:52 +0200 extradition-of-ex-mafia-boss-from-uk-dropped Uefa on Tuesday banned Italian Football Federation boss Carlo Tavecchio from its next congress and ordered him to hold an anti-racism event in punishment for widely condemned remarks. https://www.thelocal.it/20141008/uefa-punishes-italian-fa-boss-over-racist-remarks Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +0200 uefa-punishes-italian-fa-boss-over-racist-remarks Massimiliano Allegri was on Wednesday appointed the new manager of Serie A champions Juventus less than 24 hours after Antonio Conte quit the post. https://www.thelocal.it/20140716/allegri-appointed-new-juventus-boss Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:30:00 +0200 allegri-appointed-new-juventus-boss The soon-to-be director of La Scala opera house in Milan said on Friday he will prove he is "no donkey" after getting caught up in a conflict of interest row. https://www.thelocal.it/20140516/opera-boss-in-italy-row-says-he-is-no-donkey Fri, 16 May 2014 13:52:00 +0200 opera-boss-in-italy-row-says-he-is-no-donkey