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 Jewels worth several thousands of euros and owned by Qatar's ruling family were stolen from a show at Venice’s Doge’s Palace on Wednesday morning, police said. https://www.thelocal.it/20180103/jewels-stolen-from-show-at-venices-doges-palace Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:44:27 +0100 jewels-stolen-from-show-at-venices-doges-palace A 2000-year old marble head depicting the first emperor of Rome, Augustus, was returned to Italy on Tuesday, 46 years after it was pilfered by art thieves. https://www.thelocal.it/20160615/italy-gets-back-stolen-head-of-first-roman-emperor Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:24:48 +0200 italy-gets-back-stolen-head-of-first-roman-emperor A cemetery worker has been charged for allegedly stealing gold teeth from a body dug up at a graveyard in a town near Siena. https://www.thelocal.it/20160502/italian-cemetery-worker-caught-stealing-gold-teeth-from-corpse Mon, 02 May 2016 14:50:43 +0200 italian-cemetery-worker-caught-stealing-gold-teeth-from-corpse Three fifteenth-century paintings which were stolen from the Prince of Luxembourg's Tuscan villa by Nazi forces in 1944 have been found in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20160418/italy-finds-three-masterpieces-nazis-looted-from-princes-villa Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:32:03 +0200 italy-finds-three-masterpieces-nazis-looted-from-princes-villa When Geneva-based jeweller Ronny Totah received an offer last November to view a rare Kashmir sapphire set for auction with an asking price of up to $12 million (€11 million), his jaw dropped. https://www.thelocal.it/20160119/hunt-for-sapphire-snatched-in-milan-takes-mysterious-turn Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:55:08 +0100 hunt-for-sapphire-snatched-in-milan-takes-mysterious-turn Police have dismantled an elaborate network of thieves at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, including cleaners, ground crew and passenger assistants, who were behind the theft of valuable paintings from passengers in transit. https://www.thelocal.it/20151229/rome-airport-cleaners-in-pilfered-artworks-racket Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:22:15 +0100 rome-airport-cleaners-in-pilfered-artworks-racket They’re meant to be custodians of the law, but a lawyer from Milan was caught after stealing a French tourist’s wallet in Sardinia. https://www.thelocal.it/20150810/italian-lawyer-steals-french-tourists-wallet Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:57:53 +0200 italian-lawyer-steals-french-tourists-wallet US authorities on Tuesday handed back to Italy an 18th century painting and ancient Etruscan bronze statuette at a ceremony in New York, decades after they were stolen. https://www.thelocal.it/20150225/us-returns-stolen-artwork-to-italy Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:21:00 +0100 us-returns-stolen-artwork-to-italy A highly organized crime ring is behind the distribution of stolen and fake anti-cancer drugs throughout Europe, an Italian official told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140502/mafia-is-behind-stolen-anti-cancer-drugs Fri, 02 May 2014 19:51:00 +0200 mafia-is-behind-stolen-anti-cancer-drugs Authorities in central Italy have discovered a villa transformed into a private museum, housing hundreds of Roman artefacts allegedly stolen from the state. https://www.thelocal.it/20140407/italys-looted-treasures-found-in-rome-villa-2 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:55:00 +0200 italys-looted-treasures-found-in-rome-villa-2 Italian police have recovered part of a religious relic stained with Polish pope John Paul II's blood that was thrown away by thieves thinking it worthless, the Italian press reported on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140201/police-find-john-paul-ii-relic-discarded-by-thieves Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:22:00 +0100 police-find-john-paul-ii-relic-discarded-by-thieves Thieves accused of stealing a religious relic stained with Polish Pope John Paul II's blood threw it away thinking it worthless, Italian media said on Thursday, reporting the police had detained three people. https://www.thelocal.it/20140130/thieves-threw-away-john-paul-ii-relic-reports Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:36:00 +0100 thieves-threw-away-john-paul-ii-relic-reports UPDATED: A religious relic stained with Polish pope John Paul II's blood has been stolen from a church in Italy, sparking a region-wide search with police and sniffer dogs. https://www.thelocal.it/20140127/tube-of-john-paul-iis-blood-stolen-in-italy Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:18:00 +0100 tube-of-john-paul-iis-blood-stolen-in-italy Italy's cultural police, who have taken a leading role in the fight against the smuggling of antiquities, put on show a trove of recovered stolen art in Rome from Etruscan funerary urns to Renaissance paintings. https://www.thelocal.it/20140122/italy-puts-its-stolen-masterpieces-on-show Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:59:00 +0100 italy-puts-its-stolen-masterpieces-on-show Police have arrested a man from Georgia for allegedly stealing gifts from under a family's Christmas tree along with jewellery and computers from their home in the northern Italian city of Livorno . https://www.thelocal.it/20131216/christmas-presents-stolen-from-under-familys-tree Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:59:00 +0100 christmas-presents-stolen-from-under-familys-tree Charly, the world's smallest pony that was snatched from a horse show in Umbria, central Italy, last week has been found. https://www.thelocal.it/20130919/worlds-smallest-pony-found-after-theft Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:14:00 +0200 worlds-smallest-pony-found-after-theft Maxi Lopez is the latest Serie A footballer to be targeted by thieves in Rome after his Ferrari was stolen from the capital's Fiumicino airport. https://www.thelocal.it/20130827/footballer-fouled-by-ferrari-thieves Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:41:00 +0200 footballer-fouled-by-ferrari-thieves