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 Italian police on Tuesday launched a crackdown on illegal immigration from China, on the day President Xi Jinping was due to arrive for a stopover visit. https://www.thelocal.it/20161116/italy-cracks-down-on-illegal-immigration-from-china Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:04:01 +0100 italy-cracks-down-on-illegal-immigration-from-china Italian police said on Friday they had raided nine premises as part of an investigation into a Chinese criminal gang they suspect of being behind a spate of attacks on North Africans. https://www.thelocal.it/20160701/police-raid-italys-chinese-mafia-over-race-crime Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:57:08 +0200 police-raid-italys-chinese-mafia-over-race-crime Pope Francis will visit one of Italy's largest Chinese communities in November, at a time when the Vatican is engaged in negotiations to normalize relations with Beijing, the Holy See said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150327/pope-to-visit-chinese-community-in-florence Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:02:08 +0100 pope-to-visit-chinese-community-in-florence Three Chinese managers were found guilty of multiple manslaughter by an Italian court on Monday, a year after a deadly fire in a garment factory in Tuscany which left seven people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20150113/chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:20:00 +0100 chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire A man has admitted to killing a Chinese woman, whose body was found in an apartment in the Tuscan textiles-hub of Prato on Monday, in what he reportedly said was a “crime of passion”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140520/man-admits-to-killing-chinese-woman-in-prato Tue, 20 May 2014 14:31:00 +0200 man-admits-to-killing-chinese-woman-in-prato Five people were detained Thursday as part of an inquiry into a fire last December that killed seven people in a Chinese-run garment factory in Italy's Tuscany region. https://www.thelocal.it/20140321/five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:07:57 +0100 five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire A woman, believed to be in her seventies, robbed a bank near Florence with what is understood to have been a toy gun on Monday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20140310/elderly-woman-robs-bank-with-toy-gun Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:18:00 +0100 elderly-woman-robs-bank-with-toy-gun Police on Thursday uncovered an "enormous" haul of cannabis in Tuscany, seizing 5,000 plants and arresting a Chinese gang accused of being behind the drug factory. https://www.thelocal.it/20140227/italian-police-bust-enormous-cannabis-farm Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:39:00 +0100 italian-police-bust-enormous-cannabis-farm Italian police on Thursday arrested eleven people in connection with an alleged Chinese immigration racket in and around the Tuscan town of Prato, where seven people died in a Chinese-run clothes factory on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131205/italian-police-bust-chinese-illegal-immigration-ring Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:09:00 +0100 italian-police-bust-chinese-illegal-immigration-ring Italian prosecutors have said they were hunting for the owner of a Chinese-run garment factory and dormitory where seven workers died in a fire, as the town of Prato declared a day of mourning. https://www.thelocal.it/20131203/police-hunt-factory-owner-after-deadly-fire Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:00:00 +0100 police-hunt-factory-owner-after-deadly-fire A Democratic Party councillor in the Tuscan town of Prato has caused a minor stir this week after taking to Facebook to unleash an extraordinary tirade against "thieving" non-EU foreigners, saying they should "die immediately". https://www.thelocal.it/20130621/foreigners-must-die-says-councillor-in-tuscany Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200 foreigners-must-die-says-councillor-in-tuscany