The Local Italy 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 Two men jailed in Italy for social media terror threats A Milan court on Wednesday sentenced a Pakistani and a Tunisian to six years in prison for threatening terror attacks in Italy via social media. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/pakistani-and-tunisian-jailed-in-italy-for-terror-threats Thu, 26 May 2016 09:49:33 +0200 pakistani-and-tunisian-jailed-in-italy-for-terror-threats Trafficker jailed for 18 years over boat disaster A Tunisian people smuggler who survived one of the worst migrant boat disasters in the Mediterranean was given an 18-year jail sentence on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150702/trafficker-jailed-for-18-years-over-migrant-boat-disaster Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:25:00 +0200 trafficker-jailed-for-18-years-over-migrant-boat-disaster Ex-policeman jailed in Couchsurfing rape case An Italian ex-policeman has been jailed for raping a 16-year-old Australian girl who stayed with him through the Couchsurfing website. https://www.thelocal.it/20150415/ex-policeman-jailed-in-couchsurfing-rape-case Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:03:49 +0200 ex-policeman-jailed-in-couchsurfing-rape-case Man jailed for grabbing ex’s phone to read texts An 24-year-old from Puglia has been jailed for two years and two months for robbery, after he snatched his ex-girlfriend’s phone from her to read her text messages. https://www.thelocal.it/20150320/man-jailed-for-grabbing-girlfriends-phone-to-read-texts Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:12:45 +0100 man-jailed-for-grabbing-girlfriends-phone-to-read-texts Teacher gets 11-year term for sexual abuse A teacher at a school in Costigliole Saluzzo, a town in the northern Italian province of Cuneo, has been sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison for sexually abusing 19 pupils. https://www.thelocal.it/20150318/teacher-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-19-pupils Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:45:10 +0100 teacher-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-19-pupils Jailed Italians MPs will continue to get paid Jailed Italian politicians will continue to receive their salary after a request by the Five Star Movement (M5S) to have a former Democratic Party MP’s salary frozen was rejected. https://www.thelocal.it/20140710/jailed-italians-mps-will-continue-to-get-paid Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:21:00 +0200 jailed-italians-mps-will-continue-to-get-paid Mother fakes son's death to rob employer of €4,500 A woman in central Italy has been jailed for eight months after telling her boss that her son had died, in order to steal €4,500 from the company, when the seven-year-old boy was in fact alive and well. https://www.thelocal.it/20140515/mother-fakes-sons-death-to-rob-4500 Thu, 15 May 2014 17:17:00 +0200 mother-fakes-sons-death-to-rob-4500 Jailed mafia godfather hospitalized in Milan Jailed former Sicilian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano has been taken to hospital in Milan from a maximum security prison suffering from "neurological pathologies", Italian media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140410/jailed-mafia-godfather-hospitalized-in-milan Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:57:00 +0200 jailed-mafia-godfather-hospitalized-in-milan Man used porn to get daughter to have sex An Italian man from Cremona, in the northern region of Lombardy, has been jailed for one year and five months after trying to have sex with his 11-year-old daughter. https://www.thelocal.it/20140110/man-jailed-for-attempting-sex-with-daughter-through-porn Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:02:00 +0100 man-jailed-for-attempting-sex-with-daughter-through-porn