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 Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.it/20200122/italian-diplomat-sentenced-for-smuggling-egyptian-artefacts Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:36:57 +0100 italian-diplomat-sentenced-for-smuggling-egyptian-artefacts Police in Italy have seized a stash of drugs that they believe Isis planned to sell to finance terrorist attacks, authorities said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171103/italian-police-seize-isis-drugs Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:56:28 +0100 italian-police-seize-isis-drugs The Italian police said on Tuesday that they had broken a smuggling ring between Tunisia and Sicily which was preparing to bring migrants with suspected jihadist links to Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20170606/italian-police-bust-migrant-trafficking-ring-in-sicily Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:04:01 +0200 italian-police-bust-migrant-trafficking-ring-in-sicily Italian police on Tuesday arrested a married couple on suspicion of sending weapons to a faction of terrorist group Isis. https://www.thelocal.it/20170201/italian-couple-arrested-for-sending-weapons-to-isis Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:45:39 +0100 italian-couple-arrested-for-sending-weapons-to-isis Italian police have arrested 13 people involved in a major people smuggling network responsible for trafficking hundreds of people across Europe, they announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170130/italian-police-bust-people-trafficking-ring-in-lombardy Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:24:51 +0100 italian-police-bust-people-trafficking-ring-in-lombardy A Somali man faces charges in Italy for murder, torture and extortion allegedly committed among refugees in Libya after several migrants identified him by chance in Milan. https://www.thelocal.it/20170119/somali-migrant-faces-murder-torture-charges-in-italy Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:53:57 +0100 somali-migrant-faces-murder-torture-charges-in-italy An international police operation has arrested 21 people in northern Italy, suspected of running a Europe-wide people-trafficking ring. https://www.thelocal.it/20160906/italy-arrests-21-for-migrant-trafficking Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:49:23 +0200 italy-arrests-21-for-migrant-trafficking Italian police Friday said they had arrested two Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of smuggling 16 Syrian refugees into the country by yacht from Turkey. https://www.thelocal.it/20160610/italy-arrests-two-ukrainians-for-smuggling-migrants-on-yacht Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:10:24 +0200 italy-arrests-two-ukrainians-for-smuggling-migrants-on-yacht A Frenchman faces up to five years in prison after he was caught trying to smuggle a carload of migrants from Italy into France. https://www.thelocal.it/20150805/man-caught-smuggling-migrants-across-italy-border Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:05:28 +0200 man-caught-smuggling-migrants-across-italy-border Border guards caught a 24-year-old man driving a Porsche trying to enter Italy from Switzerland with 27 kilograms of cocaine stashed in the vehicle, authorities in Ticino said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150413/porsche-driver-nabbed-at-border-with-cocaine-bricks Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:05:00 +0200 porsche-driver-nabbed-at-border-with-cocaine-bricks A male nurse has been put under house arrest for trying to smuggle drugs into a prison in southern Italy, national media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140709/nurse-nabbed-smuggling-drugs-into-jail Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:51:00 +0200 nurse-nabbed-smuggling-drugs-into-jail Police in the northern Italian city of Trieste have dismantled a human trafficking ring that used Italy as a base to smuggle illegal migrants into northern Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20140512/italian-police-crack-human-smuggling-ring Mon, 12 May 2014 11:36:00 +0200 italian-police-crack-human-smuggling-ring A woman in Turin has been caught by police with €75,000 worth of diamonds and designer watches hidden in her bra, Italian media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140402/diamonds-and-rolex-buried-in-womans-bra-2 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:09:00 +0200 diamonds-and-rolex-buried-in-womans-bra-2 An Italian has been stopped by police on a Swiss train, after his suspiciously large package turned out to be €40,000 in banknotes stuffed into his underwear. https://www.thelocal.it/20140319/smuggler-exposed-with-forty-thousand-euros-in-pants Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:21:00 +0100 smuggler-exposed-with-forty-thousand-euros-in-pants Italian police said Monday they had busted a ring of smugglers who attempted to traffic cocaine from Latin America to Europe by hiding it in surf boards and a sailing boat. https://www.thelocal.it/20131203/italy-busts-surfer-drug-smuggling-ring Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:55:00 +0100 italy-busts-surfer-drug-smuggling-ring The director of a Norwegian company allegedly part of a child trafficking network passing through Italy, has denied the claims and told The Local his company was merely trying to help a mother and her child. https://www.thelocal.it/20131031/norwegian-boss-denies-child-trafficking-ring Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0100 norwegian-boss-denies-child-trafficking-ring Police in the southern Italian city of Bari have arrested a man caught smuggling six tonnes of cigarettes from Greece under a pallet of watermelons. https://www.thelocal.it/20130716/police-expose-cigarette-sellers-fruity-secret Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:21:00 +0200 police-expose-cigarette-sellers-fruity-secret