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 A teenage actor who appeared in the award-winning film "Piranhas", about child criminals in Naples, has been stabbed in the Italian organised crime stronghold. https://www.thelocal.it/20190429/actor-from-mafia-film-piranhas-stabbed-in-naples Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:53:06 +0200 actor-from-mafia-film-piranhas-stabbed-in-naples Italian author Roberto Saviano is the most high-profile of the many Italian journalists needing police protection - which his country's far-right interior minister has threatened to remove. https://www.thelocal.it/20190213/anti-mafia-author-saviano-wont-be-intimidated-by-salvini Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:18:11 +0100 anti-mafia-author-saviano-wont-be-intimidated-by-salvini Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday night he has filed a complaint for defamation against the anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano, one of his most virulent critics. https://www.thelocal.it/20180720/matteo-salvini-sues-anti-mafia-writer-roberto-saviano Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:49:33 +0200 matteo-salvini-sues-anti-mafia-writer-roberto-saviano Roberto Saviano, author of the mafia exposé Gomorrah and a fierce critic of Italy's new government, says he won't be intimidated by the interior minister's threat to reconsider his police protection. https://www.thelocal.it/20180622/roberto-saviano-matteo-salvini-police-protection Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:05:20 +0200 roberto-saviano-matteo-salvini-police-protection Italian mafia expert and writer Roberto Saviano on Wednesday evening blamed "criminal organizations" for the huge fire which has spread over the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, as the Italian army were deployed to tackle the blaze. https://www.thelocal.it/20170713/mafia-expert-roberto-saviano-blames-criminality-mount-vesuvius-campania-fire-italy-army-tackle-blaze Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:44:05 +0200 mafia-expert-roberto-saviano-blames-criminality-mount-vesuvius-campania-fire-italy-army-tackle-blaze The UK is "the most corrupt country in the world," Italian mafia journalist and author Roberto Saviano said in a TV interview on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170406/italian-mafia-expert-labels-uk-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-world Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:10:00 +0200 italian-mafia-expert-labels-uk-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-world "Gommorah" writer Roberto Saviano on Monday marked 10 years living under police protection by telling the mafia bosses who want him dead: "I'm still alive, you did not succeed." https://www.thelocal.it/20161017/gomorrah-writer-saviano-tells-mafia-you-did-not-succeed Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:24:55 +0200 gomorrah-writer-saviano-tells-mafia-you-did-not-succeed Italian journalist Roberto Saviano testified on Monday over death threats he has received from the Naples mafia, saying his only chance of a normal life is to live abroad under a new identity. https://www.thelocal.it/20131007/mafia-targets-war-veteran-journalist Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:52:26 +0200 mafia-targets-war-veteran-journalist Roberto Saviano, the author of mafia exposé Gomorrah, toured Naples on Monday in memory of a 26-year-old journalist who was killed by the Comorra clan. https://www.thelocal.it/20130923/saviano-remembers-journalist-slain-by-mafia Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:37:00 +0200 saviano-remembers-journalist-slain-by-mafia