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 Grieving relatives wept over the coffins of dozens of victims of Genoa's bridge disaster Friday amid growing fury over a planned state funeral, while rescuers pressed on with their tireless search for those missing in the rubble. https://www.thelocal.it/20180818/relatives-grieve-over-victims-of-genoa-bridge-disaster Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:41:13 +0200 relatives-grieve-over-victims-of-genoa-bridge-disaster A priest in Bari province has stirred controversy after inviting churchgoers to a mass dedicated to Rocco Sollecito, a mafia boss shot dead in Canada in May. https://www.thelocal.it/20161227/uproar-as-priest-invites-public-to-mass-for-slain-canada-mafia-boss Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:03:10 +0100 uproar-as-priest-invites-public-to-mass-for-slain-canada-mafia-boss A grieving family was forced to halt a funeral in southern Italy when it emerged that they were about to bury the wrong man. https://www.thelocal.it/20161108/italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:16:18 +0100 italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Thousands of mourners sang as they walked through the streets of Milan Saturday to pay their respects to Italy's Nobel prize-winning dramatist Dario Fo at a lay ceremony in front of the city's Gothic cathedral. https://www.thelocal.it/20161015/singing-in-the-rain-at-send-off-for-italys-dario-fo Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:37:20 +0200 singing-in-the-rain-at-send-off-for-italys-dario-fo Hundreds of mourners flocked to Milan's Sforza Castle on Tuesday to pay their respects to Italian literary giant Umberto Eco, the intellectual phenomenon behind the best-selling "The Name of the Rose". https://www.thelocal.it/20160223/italys-castle-farewell-to-literary-giant-umberto-eco Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:50:30 +0100 italys-castle-farewell-to-literary-giant-umberto-eco 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 The daughter of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica, who was last month given a lavish funeral in Rome, has sparked more outrage after comparing him to Pope Francis. https://www.thelocal.it/20150909/mafia-boss-dad-was-good-like-pope-john-paul-ii Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:59:10 +0200 mafia-boss-dad-was-good-like-pope-john-paul-ii Three Italian journalists have received death threats for reporting on the lavish Hollywood-style funeral of crime boss Vittorio Casamonica in Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20150826/journalists-get-death-threats-over-mafia-funeral Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:50:26 +0200 journalists-get-death-threats-over-mafia-funeral 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 A gilded horse-drawn carriage, rose petals thrown from a helicopter and the theme tune from The Godfather. You really couldn’t make it up: this was how mourners paid their last respects to a mafia boss in Rome on Thursday, sparking outrage in a city embroiled in a mafia-linked corruption scandal. https://www.thelocal.it/20150821/outcry-after-mafia-boss-given-lavish-send-off Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:02:45 +0200 outcry-after-mafia-boss-given-lavish-send-off Mourners were left in shock at a Rome funeral when the coffin caved in, reportedly as the deceased man was particularly "heavy". https://www.thelocal.it/20150216/horror-as-heavy-mans-coffin-splits-at-italian-funeral Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:31:00 +0100 horror-as-heavy-mans-coffin-splits-at-italian-funeral Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge and the mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, are due to attend the funeral on Friday of a transgender Colombian, who was beaten to death in the Italian capital in July. https://www.thelocal.it/20131227/mp-attends-funeral-of-murdered-transsexual Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:40:00 +0100 mp-attends-funeral-of-murdered-transsexual Italian authorities appeared at a loss Thursday on what to do with the body of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died last week while living under house arrest for massacring 335 civilians. https://www.thelocal.it/20131017/italy-at-a-loss-over-dead-nazi-war-criminal Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:26:00 +0200 italy-at-a-loss-over-dead-nazi-war-criminal Thousands turned out for a mass funeral on Tuesday for the victims of a coach crash in southern Italy as flags flew at half-mast and the nation mourned the 38 dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20130730/mass-funeral-held-for-italys-bus-crash-victims Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:00:00 +0200 mass-funeral-held-for-italys-bus-crash-victims Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will join bereaved relatives at a mass funeral on Tuesday for the 38 people killed in Italy when a coach plunged off a viaduct near Naples. He also announced a national day of mourning for Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130730/letta-attends-funeral-for-coach-crash-victims Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:07:09 +0200 letta-attends-funeral-for-coach-crash-victims