Policing and criminal justice system in Italy
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Berlusconi attacks multiculturalism during election debate
In the run-up to the April general election, the then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, stated on state-run radio that 'We don't want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country.
1 July 2006 (173 words)
Issues in the Italian general election
Freedom House alliance includes far-Right
1 May 2006 (461 words)
Senate president backs deposed Northern League minister
The president of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, said that no apologies should be made for the actions of Roberto Calderoli, even if 'he had made a mistake' since 'if we genuflect before them, we shall lose'.
22 February 2006 (126 words)
Naples: Berlusconi alliance in bribes allegation
The Spanish daily El Mundo has reported allegations that supporters of Berlusconi's centre-right coalition, the House of Freedoms, bribed poor voters in the southern city of Naples with the offer of 30 euros in return for voting for Gianfranco Fini.
16 June 2004 (111 words)
European elections: modest gains for extreme-Right
The Alleanza Nazionale (AN) and the Lega Nord made modest gains in the June European parliament elections, largely at the expense of prime minister Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
11 June 2004 (92 words)
Journalist who posed as migrant sentenced
Fabrizio Gatti, who, in 2000, posed as a migrant worker in order to expose the treatment of workers and conditions at the temporary detention centre in via Corelli, Milan, has been found guilty in May 2004 at a Lombardy court of 'providing false declaration of identity' and given a 20-day suspended sentence.
1 May 2004 (106 words)
Northern League introduces amendment to legalise torture
The Northern League has been criticised by Amnesty International after League member Carolina Lussana drafted an amendment to legislation suggesting torture would only be illegal if it was a repeated act.
23 April 2004 (103 words)
Rome: police Travellers' unit established
A special unit of Rome's municipal police force has been created to police Travellers' camps.
8 October 2003 (37 words)
Left-winger killed by extreme-Right but police turn on victim's friends
During the night of 16 March, Davide Cesare died after being knifed by three members of an extreme-right organisation, the youngest of whom was 17.
27 September 2003 (113 words)
Focus on police violence in Temporary Holding Centres for Aliens
Lecce: detention violence against North Africans alleged
5 June 2003 (323 words)
Police shoot dead immigrant from New Guinea
A mentally-disturbed immigrant from New Guinea has been shot dead by a carabiniere in Naples.
4 April 2003 (84 words)
Three carabinieri sentenced following death of Tunisian
Three carabinieri officers have been found not guilty of causing the death of the Tunisian national, Eddine Imed Bouabid in March 2001 but guilty of abandoning an incapacitated person and altering their official report of the incident.
1 February 2003 (233 words)
Roma dies following roadblock confrontation
The public prosecutor has launched an investigation after Fabio Halilovic, a 16-year-old Roma, died after the car he was travelling in failed to stop at a police roadblock on the outskirts of Rome.
1 August 2002 (190 words)
Deaths by drowning follows police chase
There have been yet another two cases in which young Moroccans have drowned after being chased by the police.
1 August 2002 (75 words)
At least two dead, following police identity checks
An immigrant youth is presumed drowned after jumping in the river Tiber in May 2001 in an attempt to escape a police chase.
1 January 2002 (186 words)
Pistoia police station assault on Albanian youths
Six young people, five of whom were Albanian, were picked up by police in Pistoia and severely beaten at the police station.
1 January 2002 (99 words)
Far-Right attack university students
Far-Right thugs attacked students at Pisa's faculty of letters, leading to the hospitalisation of six students.
1 January 2002 (26 words)
Mounting evidence that police target anti-fascists
Brescia police charge anti-fascist protesters
1 January 2002 (124 words)
Police suspected after death of Tunisian immigrant
An investigation into the activities of three members of the carabinieri has been launched after the body of Edine Imed Bouabid, a Tunisian immigrant was found on the hard shoulder of the Rome-Civitavecchia motorway on 15 March 2001.
1 January 2002 (178 words)
Rome - Moroccan youth dies after police chase
Mourad Fikki, an unarmed 17-year-old Moroccan youth, has died on the banks of the Tiber in Rome after being shot by a police officer in disputed circumstances.
1 January 2001 (315 words)
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