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 Anti-mafia campaigners and victims of the Mob voiced fury on Thursday after Italy's national broadcaster gave airtime to the son of Sicily's most notorious gangster to promote a book dedicated to his jailed father. https://www.thelocal.it/20160407/airtime-for-mafia-bosss-son-sparks-fury-in-italy Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:32:34 +0200 airtime-for-mafia-bosss-son-sparks-fury-in-italy Iconic Roma captain Francesco Totti personally paid a team of police officers for two years in a bid to thwart his son Christian being kidnapped, according to reports in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20151111/totti-paid-to-thwart-sons-kidnap-report Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:41:56 +0100 totti-paid-to-thwart-sons-kidnap-report An Italian father has been hit with a one year and four month suspended sentence by a court in Rimini for psychological mistreatment after telling his son off too harshly. https://www.thelocal.it/20151005/italian-man-sentenced-for-berating-slacker-son Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:33:39 +0200 italian-man-sentenced-for-berating-slacker-son A 33-year-old woman in Sicily is facing murder charges over the death on Monday of her five-year-old son, who reportedly overdosed on pills used to treat depression. https://www.thelocal.it/20140715/mother-faces-murder-charge-over-boys-overdose Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:03:00 +0200 mother-faces-murder-charge-over-boys-overdose Prosecutors in Milan have asked for Silvio Berlusconi’s elder son, Pier Silvio, to be sentenced to three years and two months in jail for alleged tax fraud at the family’s Mediaset empire. https://www.thelocal.it/20140522/prosecutor-seeks-jail-term-for-berlusconis-son Thu, 22 May 2014 17:51:00 +0200 prosecutor-seeks-jail-term-for-berlusconis-son A father in Piacenza, northern Italy, who last summer forgot his two-year-old son in the back of his boiling hot car resulting in the toddler’s death, was cleared of manslaughter on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140509/father-cleared-after-forgetting-son-in-car Fri, 09 May 2014 17:14:00 +0200 father-cleared-after-forgetting-son-in-car A mother in Naples, southern Italy, has been accused of beating and stabbing her disabled son to death before attempting to take her own life, Italian media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140429/mother-stabs-disabled-son-to-death Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:03:00 +0200 mother-stabs-disabled-son-to-death A 70-year-old man from Treviso, a city in the northern Italian region of Veneto, became embroiled in a bitter feud with his son after booking an escort who turned out to be his offspring’s girlfriend. https://www.thelocal.it/20140305/fury-after-italian-mans-escort-is-sons-girlfriend Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:33:00 +0100 fury-after-italian-mans-escort-is-sons-girlfriend A woman from the southern Italian region of Calabria allegedly stabbed her 11-year-old son to death over her husband's affair. https://www.thelocal.it/20140304/italian-mother-kills-son-over-fathers-affair Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0100 italian-mother-kills-son-over-fathers-affair A domestic argument ended in tragedy when a father killed in son, leaving his daughter to find the body. https://www.thelocal.it/20130829/father-kills-son-during-family-row Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:00 +0200 father-kills-son-during-family-row