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Salvini voices support for French protesters Yellow Vests and Le Pen
Quite possibly the world’s most popular leader, the Italian populist Matteo Salvini, gives his support to the French Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) protestors, who are protesting against possibly the world’s least popular leader at the moment, President Macron, over the tax rise on fuel.
Italy’s Interior Minister shared a video clip from Italian public broadcaster RAI on Twitter which showed one...
Can Italy’s Salvini stop the country from signing the UN migration pact?
The UN Global Migration Pact has caused controversy throughout the world. The list of countries withdrawing and refusing to sign it is growing by the day.
It has been presented by the UN as a ‘non-binding’ agreement that every country should sign it, however, one lawyer has already pointed out that ” … while the UN migration pact is “non-binding” on countries, it does set up a “framework”...
Refugee Ship Caught Dumping 24 Tons of TOXIC WASTE in Italy
Italy is fuming of fury after they caught a migrant taxi ship used by NGOs like Doctors Without Borders and SOS Mediterranee dumping at least 24 TONS of dangerous TOXIC WASTE in Italy, polluting several Sicily ports with biohazardous materials.
The Italian government has ordered the seizure of the NGO vessel Aquarius amid an investigation into potential illegal dumping of hazardous waste.
The ship...
Salvini dismantles dozens of illegal migrant camps in Rome
Italy has begun to clear the 27 illegal migrants’ camps in Rome, the first having just been cleared, news agency Ansa reports.
There are photos and videos showing that these camps are similar to the improvised squatters’ camps on Paris’ streets.
Italy’s most trusted and popular populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has vowed to clear all of the illegal camps and the first one closed was...
Italy has no future outside the Eurozone, EU commissioner warns
The EU commissioner is still employing bullying over Italy’s budget, insisting that Italy has “no future” outside of the Eurozone.
The European Commission disagrees with Italy’s spending plans for the coming years and has asked Rome to submit a new draft budget by 13 November. So far, government ministers have refused, saying they will not change their economic plans.
The EU’s Economics...
Italian ruling party member backs Trump and says Italy shouldn’t sign UN migration pact
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is set to be formally adopted at the UN Conference in Morocco on 10-11 December.
But, as President Trump said when speaking before the UN on 25 September, “Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens,” and Gianluca Savoini, a member of Italy’s Lega party, has said much the same on Friday.
He...
ITALY: Afghan Migrant Beat Baby Daughter, Tortured Wife Because he Wanted a Son
An Italian court has convicted an Afghan migrant of a variety of crimes stemming from extensive physical abuse inflicted upon his newborn daughter and wife, local media reports.
“He wanted a boy but fate brought him a baby girl, and he decided to beat his newborn daughter and kick, punch and strangle his wife, whom he married in Pakistan when she was 15-years-old,” Leggo reports.
The 30-year-old...
Italian Senate approves new law to make deportation of migrants easier
On Wednesday the Senate has approved the legislation making it easier to depot convicted asylum seekers.
The security and migration decree won with 163 votes in favour with only 59 against and 19 abstentions.
The decree, drafted by Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League party, was approved with a confidence vote and now moves to the Lower House.
This makes it...
Massive growth makes Salvini’s anti-migration party largest in Italy
Italian’s are happy to share their opinions and a poll published on Saturday shows the deepening divide between support for the right-wing League and its coalition partner the 5Star Movement.
The Ipsos poll published the telling results. The League, headed by the internationally popular Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has jumped to 34.7 per cent of Italians saying they would vote for the League.
In...
Italians see Matteo Salvini as Italy’s de facto leader
Matteo Salvini’s popularity isn’t going anywhere as a new poll shows that the Italian public view him as the country’s true leader.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy is shown by a survey in La Repubblica that 58 per cent consider him Italy’s leader, with only 14 per cent for fellow Deputy Prime Minister Luigi De Maio of the 5 Star Movement and Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte only...
I can’t wait to meet new president Bolsonaro – Italian Interior Minister
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini ready to go to Brazil and get former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti if the newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro agrees to extradite him to Italy as promised.
“I can’t wait to meet new president Bolsonaro,” Salvini said, and “I will be happy to got personally to Brazil also to go and get leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti and bring him...
Italy's Lega Party Says No to Muslim Group's Drive to Turn Hospital Into Mosque
Earlier this year, Lega Party leader Matteo Salvini warned that Islamization may “gain the upper hand” in Italy and that the country’s history and culture could be eradicated as a result.
Efforts by a Muslim association to convert a former hospital chapel into a mosque in the northern Italian city of Bergamo have been blocked by the country’s right-wing Lega Party.
The developments...
Italian MEP slams shoe on EU document and shouts “Italy deserves respect!”
On Tuesday, after the EU in an aberrant move rejected Italy’s budget, Italian MEP Angelo Ciocca, who represents the League, slammed his shoe on his notes and shouted “Italy deserves respect!” to the European Commissioner for finance.
The month long stand-off between the populist government and the EU over the Italian government’s budget came to a head Wednesday. The EU saying that the budget...
Two illegal migrants arrested for being involved in gang rape and death of Italian teen girl
Late Wednesday night two arrests were made in connection with the rape and possible murder of the 16-year-old Italian girl Desiree Mariottini.
The teen girl was found dead in an abandoned building in a suburb in Rome. It is believed that she was drugged and gang raped while being unconscious, investigators say.
Two illegal Senegalese migrants have been arrested: Mamadou Gara, 26, and Brian Minteh,...
16 year old Italian Girl Drugged and Gang Raped to Death in Rome by Africans and Arabs
Last Saturday the body of the 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini was found in an abandoned building in Rome, Italy. According to an autopsy the girl was drugged and raped, Italian media report.
A Senegalese boy, who was a witness, told the police:
“They drugged and raped her… A girl was screaming… I looked at the woman screaming and there was another girl in bed: they had put a blanket up to her...