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 Thirteen people have been placed under house arrest in the southern Isernia province – including the local mayor – for allegedly abusing elderly people and psychiatric patients at a "care home of horrors". https://www.thelocal.it/20141008/italian-mayor-arrested-over-care-home-scandal Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:25:00 +0200 italian-mayor-arrested-over-care-home-scandal An 89-year-old man died over the weekend in Genoa after setting himself on fire, in protest at being sent to live in a care home. https://www.thelocal.it/20140728/pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:55:00 +0200 pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home Two people have been put under house arrest over accusations that they physically and mentally tormented dementia sufferers at a Milan care home. https://www.thelocal.it/20140620/milan-care-home-residents-were-slapped-and-insulted Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:34:00 +0200 milan-care-home-residents-were-slapped-and-insulted A 12-year-old boy, who escaped from a care home in Piemonte, was seen "peddling like a madman" along the fast lane of a busy motorway in a bid to "get home to his mum" in Turin. https://www.thelocal.it/20131113/boy-in-motorway-cycle-bid-to-get-home-to-mum Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:41:00 +0100 boy-in-motorway-cycle-bid-to-get-home-to-mum