MADRID( Reuters)-Spanish and Italian police said on Monday they had arrested 106 people for belonging to a gang that allegedly laundered money for mafia groups and made millions of euros through online scams. Most of the suspected members were Italian nationals and the majority of the arrests took place on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, Europol said in a statement. According to Italy's police force, the suspects tricked their victims, who were also mostly Italian, into sending large sums

A reputed top Naples crime syndicate boss was arrested Saturday as she was about to board a flight to Spain, Italian authorities said. Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese praised the arrest of Maria Licciardi, 70, by Carabinieri officers on orders of Naples prosecutors. Police from the paramilitary Carabinieri's special operations unit who carried out the arrest weren't immediately available for details.... But the Carabinieri press office posted a dispatch by the Italian news agency ANSA sayin

Italian police have warned that anti-vaccine protestors have planned to commit violence at upcoming demonstrations. Authorities carried out searches at the homes of eight activists across Italy on Thursday and seized a number of computers. Police said the group had posted on social media about potential" violent actions" they would carry out at protests against COVID-19 health passes. The activists were" active" members of a group on the Telegram messaging platform called" I Guerrieri"(" the War

ROME( Reuters)-Italian police on Saturday used water cannon to push back hundreds of people demonstrating in Rome against coronavirus vaccination, seeking to keep them from the prime minister's office.... Around 10, 000 people took to the streets in the heart of the Italian capital to protest against the Green Pass, a digital or paper certificate showing someone has received at least one dose of the vaccine, tested negative for COVID-19 or recently recovered from the virus, local media reported

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for July 7 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... Check out what's clicking on Foxnews. com. Six men in Italy were fined Sunday after patrol officers spotted them going full nude on the shore of a lake, according to reports.... Italian media reported that officers aboard a carabinieri police boat spotted naturists while patrolling the beaches of Abbadia Lariana – located in Lake Como – to enforce social distancing....

An envelope containing three bullets and addressed to Pope Francis has been found near Milan. Authorities are now investigating the source of the envelope and who could be behind it, according to Italian paramilitary police.It was sent from France and intercepted by postal employees working on sorting the mail overnight in the small sorting facility of Peschiera Borromeo in a Milan suburb, the carabinieri provincial command in Milan said.It reportedly contained three 9-calibre Flobert-type pelle

ROME-A fugitive member of the Camorra mafia due to serve almost 19 years in prison for drug trafficking has been arrested in Colombia, Italian police said on Friday. Luigi Belvedere had been on the run since December 2020 and was on the Italian interior ministry's list of dangerous fugitives, a statement said, adding he was apprehended in the city of Medellin.In announcing his arrest, police distributed a picture of Belvedere posing by the grave of the notorious late Colombian drug lord Pablo Es

Migrants walk along a quay after disembarking in Roccella Jonica in the Calabria region, southern Italy, on Nov.... Later Sunday, after an Italian customs police boat spotted spotted another fishing vessel in difficulty off Calabria, coast guard crews ferried 250 migrants to the same port, Associated Press journalists in Roccella Jonica reported.... While most migrants seeking to reach Italy in the central Mediterranean depart from Libya or Tunisia, authorities say an increasing number of traf

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadMILAN( Reuters)-A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he allegedly stabbed four women and a six-year-old child in the tourist town of Rimini on Saturday night, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday. Investigators were for the moment ruling out terrorism as the motive, ANSA added. Interior minister Luciana Lamorgese called the incident “ extremely serious ” and said in a statement that she would be in Rimini on Monday to attend a security meeting. The

ROME( AFP)-An Italian man who received government welfare for years due to blindness was arrested on Wednesday( Dec 15) on suspicion of fraud after being seen driving, window shopping and riding a scooter, news reports said. The man in Palermo, Sicily, received at least €170, 000( S$ 262, 000) in benefits since 2008 after attesting that he was" totally blind" as a result of a congenital problem, local media reported. Italy's financial police were alerted after the man renewed his driver's licenc