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 An Italian politician has called for an investigation into allegations that a teacher at a school in Rome locked a disabled boy in a classroom to "calm him down". https://www.thelocal.it/20140710/disabled-pupil-beaten-and-locked-in-classroom Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:36:00 +0200 disabled-pupil-beaten-and-locked-in-classroom An eight-year-old boy was rejected by a church-run summer school in Rivoli, a town in the province of Turin, because workers there “are not equipped” to handle his developmental disability. https://www.thelocal.it/20140702/boy-with-learning-problem-rejected-by-turin-school Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:34:00 +0200 boy-with-learning-problem-rejected-by-turin-school A mother in Naples, southern Italy, has been accused of beating and stabbing her disabled son to death before attempting to take her own life, Italian media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140429/mother-stabs-disabled-son-to-death Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:03:00 +0200 mother-stabs-disabled-son-to-death Italy's former premier and billionaire tycoon Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he was happy to do his community service in a centre for disabled and elderly people and would do his best to be helpful. https://www.thelocal.it/20140418/berlusconi-is-pleased-to-be-helping-the-needy Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:33:00 +0200 berlusconi-is-pleased-to-be-helping-the-needy A teaching assistant in central Italy has been caught on camera hitting and insulting a 12-year-old disabled boy in her care, Italian media reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140403/teacher-hit-and-ridiculed-disabled-boy-2 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:00:00 +0200 teacher-hit-and-ridiculed-disabled-boy-2 A disabled tourist from Sweden has been charged after holding up a train in northern Italy for 40 minutes in protest over the lack of facilities allowing disabled people to board trains with ease. https://www.thelocal.it/20131111/swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:30:00 +0100 swede-stops-train-in-row-over-disabled-access The mother of a disabled 30-year-old man in Treviso, northern Italy, is appealing for brothels to be reopened in Italy so that her son can have an active and safe sex life. https://www.thelocal.it/20130830/mother-calls-for-brothels-to-be-reopened Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:26:00 +0200 mother-calls-for-brothels-to-be-reopened A Nigerian man faces paralysis after being beaten by a disabled passenger on a bus in Florence following a row over a seat. https://www.thelocal.it/20130718/disabled-passenger-beats-man-on-florence-bus Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:34:00 +0200 disabled-passenger-beats-man-on-florence-bus The mother of a disabled young man in Italy said in an interview on Wednesday that she would like her son to have a ‘sex assistant’. https://www.thelocal.it/20130606/i-want-my-son-to-have-a-sex-assistant Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:45:00 +0200 i-want-my-son-to-have-a-sex-assistant