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Italian police raid hackers who took on Vatican
Italian police on Friday arrested four alleged hackers believed to belong to the activist group Anonymous for attacking websites, including those of the Vatican and the parliament in Rome. The four have been placed under house arrest and communications police carried out a dozen raids. They are suspected of launching…
Italian police nab gangster son of mafia ‘pirate’
Italian police on Monday arrested the son of a powerful mafia “pirate” on charges of extortion, swooping in on him in a pub in a move described as a significant blow to the ruthless Casalesi clan. Carmine Schiavone, son of the crime boss Francesco Schiavone — nicknamed “Sandokan” after a…
Italian police use Facebook to track mafia
Italian police are making use of Facebook to identify criminal networks and even to catch gangsters who cannot resist posting updates while on the run, L’Espresso weekly reported on Friday. “For us it is an important tool,” Alessandro Giuliano, head of police detectives in Milan, was quoted as saying. “It…
Italian police forced to apologize for gay slur in training manual
Italian police apologised this week after they were forced to change a training manual that listed homosexuality as a “sexual deviance” in the same category as bestiality, incest and necrophilia. A passage in the 585-page manual, which was being used internally in officer exams in the Carabinieri police force, read:…
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