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 54-year-old man from Palermo committed a horrific suicide on Wednesday by setting himself on fire in his car at a busy fruit and vegetable market. https://www.thelocal.it/20160211/unemployed-italian-burns-himself-to-death-at-sicily-market Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:59:24 +0100 unemployed-italian-burns-himself-to-death-at-sicily-market Four people are are being investigated for manslaughter after Raphael Schumacher, 27, was accidentally hanged during a live performance in Pisa. https://www.thelocal.it/20160205/four-probed-over-actor-hanged-in-during-play Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:19:17 +0100 four-probed-over-actor-hanged-in-during-play A twelve-year-old girl is in a critical condition after throwing herself from the second-floor balcony of her home in the northern Italian city of Pordenone. https://www.thelocal.it/20160118/twelve-year-old-injured-after-balcony-suicide-attempt Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:47:35 +0100 twelve-year-old-injured-after-balcony-suicide-attempt The death of a pensioner, who killed himself after losing his life savings as a result of a controversial move by the government to rescue four banks, has sparked outrage in Italy, with two consumer associations calling for a criminal case inquiry. https://www.thelocal.it/20151210/man-kills-self-after-losing-100000-in-italy-save-banks-plan Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:13:39 +0100 man-kills-self-after-losing-100000-in-italy-save-banks-plan An 11-year-old girl with anorexia is thought to have committed suicide, reportedly after rowing with her mother over food. https://www.thelocal.it/20151109/anorexic-girl-kills-herself-after-row-over-food Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:46:26 +0100 anorexic-girl-kills-herself-after-row-over-food Sixteen prison guards working at a prison in Milan have been suspended for allegedly posting offensive messages on a Facebook page about a Romanian inmate who committed suicide. https://www.thelocal.it/20150220/prison-guards-mock-inmates-suicide-on-facebook Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:31:00 +0100 prison-guards-mock-inmates-suicide-on-facebook An Italian priest who admitted to sexually abusing a young teenage girl hanged himself in the sacristy - the cleric's changing room in his church - the diocese of Santa Croce in northern Italy said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141029/italian-sex-abuse-priest-hangs-himself-in-church Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:49:00 +0100 italian-sex-abuse-priest-hangs-himself-in-church The bodies of a grandfather and his five-year-old grandson, sick with a rare genetic disorder, were discovered on Sunday in a hugging embrace afloat in a river in northeast Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20141013/grandfather-and-sick-boy-in-murder-suicide Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:13:00 +0200 grandfather-and-sick-boy-in-murder-suicide An 89-year-old man died over the weekend in Genoa after setting himself on fire, in protest at being sent to live in a care home. https://www.thelocal.it/20140728/pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:55:00 +0200 pensioner-sets-self-on-fire-in-care-home A pensioner in L’Aquila burnt himself to death on Friday morning, leaving a note in which he described his torment following the city’s 2009 earthquake which killed 309 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20140725/suicide-by-fire-over-laquila-earthquake Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:28:00 +0200 suicide-by-fire-over-laquila-earthquake A 16-year-old girl from the Emilia Romagna town of Forlì threw herself from the roof of her school building after her parents refused to let her go to China. https://www.thelocal.it/20140626/italian-schoolgirl-kills-herself-over-china-trip Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:40:00 +0200 italian-schoolgirl-kills-herself-over-china-trip Four factory workers at the Italian car manufacturer Fiat have been fired for enacting the fake suicide of CEO Sergio Marchionne in retaliation for the suicide of a colleague in May. https://www.thelocal.it/20140625/fiat-workers-sacked-for-staging-ceos-fake-suicide Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:00:00 +0200 fiat-workers-sacked-for-staging-ceos-fake-suicide A 53-year-old policeman committed suicide on Sunday at a police station in Venice. https://www.thelocal.it/20140505/venice-policeman-kills-himself Mon, 05 May 2014 14:07:00 +0200 venice-policeman-kills-himself In 2012, a 30-year-old British woman was found dead in a small village in the southern Italian region of Campania. She had ten stab wounds to the throat, in what police later dismissed as suicide. This week the case risks being closed for good, unless the family’s lawyer can convince an Italian court that she was brutally murdered. Rosie Scammell investigates. https://www.thelocal.it/20140428/british-family-seeks-truth-over-daughters-death Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:24:00 +0200 british-family-seeks-truth-over-daughters-death A 12-year-old girl from Lecce in the southern Italian region of Puglia saved her father from suicide after reading a "desperate" text message from him. https://www.thelocal.it/20140423/year-old-girl-saves-dad-from-suicide Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:22:00 +0200 year-old-girl-saves-dad-from-suicide The body of a man has been found in a school in Naples, hanging from a stairwell with his wrists tied behind his back, in what police believe to be a suicide. https://www.thelocal.it/20140423/hung-man-found-in-school-with-wrists-tied Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:17:00 +0200 hung-man-found-in-school-with-wrists-tied A 21-year-old student killed himself on Monday morning after jumping from a building at the University of Padua in the northern Italian region of Veneto. https://www.thelocal.it/20140414/student-jumps-to-death-from-university-building Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:55:00 +0200 student-jumps-to-death-from-university-building A 17-year-old girl from the Sicilian province of Trapani, committed suicide after learning how to load a gun on the internet. https://www.thelocal.it/20140311/italian-teen-kills-herself-with-fathers-gun Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:13:00 +0100 italian-teen-kills-herself-with-fathers-gun A woman in northern Italy killed her three children over the weekend, reportedly telling police afterwards that she was "desperate" and in poverty after her husband left the family. https://www.thelocal.it/20140310/desperate-mother-kills-her-three-daughters Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:17:00 +0100 desperate-mother-kills-her-three-daughters 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