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SUICIDES OUT OF CONTROL. Another suicide in prison. A foreign prisoner hanged himself behind bars in Vibo Valentia. Reached 30 inmates who have taken their own lives since the beginning of 2024, in addition to three officers. The associations and some political forces (Radicals above all) attack: “Spot maneuvers are not enough, structural interventions are needed”. The average age of the victims: 40 years. It is the worst emergency of all time for our prison system and very little is talked about. We need more psychologists and psychiatrists (frailties are the norm), more activities to fill the days, alternative sentences such as home detention, socially useful work or electronic bracelets for those who are not a danger to society or are serving their last months.
THE AOSTA MYSTERY. The case opened by the Aosta prosecutor’s office is for murder. This is the crime hypothesized by the investigators for the young woman, perhaps French, found dead in the ruined chapel in Equilivaz. A witness reveals today The print, had met the couple of boys “pale and in dark clothes” on April 2nd, they had gone shopping at the supermarket: “She: very beautiful, but suffering, emaciated. He with black curls and an olive complexion”. They told him they had arrived from the Swiss border. They didn’t have winter clothes, it had even snowed in the following days. There is no trace of him: he is wanted, but no one can say for sure whether he is alive. Autopsy today.
DEF IN THE DARK. Today the Council of Ministers will approve the Economic and Financial Document (Def), the appetizer of the next budget law. It will be a incomplete text, without the programmatic policies of the executive: the government, in addition to refinancing the measures implemented with the latest budget, is not exposing itself. Announcing specific measures would expose the government to the risk of having to backtrack, Meloni and Giorgetti want to avoid announcements of possible new cuts a few months before the European elections.
INSIDE RAFAH. “There is a date” for the entry of Israeli army troops into Rafah, says Nethanyau, for whom there is no victory in Gaza without the operation in the southern city, where according to Israel the Hamas leaders are located and the surviving hostages. In Rafah there are more than one and a half million Gazan refugees, there is a risk of further massacre. The US State Department said it had not received any information on the date, and that no credible plan to safeguard civilians had been presented. Another 15 dead in the Strip with raids on Khan Yunis and Maghazi.
RUSSIAN SHIP IN FLAMES. The Russian missile ship Serpukhov, docked off the coast of Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea, was set on fire. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the fire “disabled” the vessel and “her means of communication were completely destroyed.” This is the first attack of its kind against Russian naval assets stationed in the Baltic Sea. Alarm over a ‘serious risk of nuclear accident’ at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, which once again came under fire from the conflict between Russians and Ukrainians. Reactor casing damaged, Moscow-Kiev exchange of accusations.
TERRORIST IN ROME. What would he have done in the Italian capital? A question that needs to be answered. A citizen of Tajikistan, Ilkhomi Sayrakhmonzoda, 32 years old, was arrested by the police at Fiumicino airport: there was an international arrest warrant pending on him for having enlisted in ISIS and having gone to Syria to fight in 2014. He is an active member of the ‘organization. Had he arrived in Rome to carry out an attack? Was he supposed to meet someone? They stopped him when he disembarked from a flight from Holland: he is of the same nationality as 11 of the 12 terrorists who acted in Moscow three weeks ago at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow: 143 victims.
INHERITANCE TAX. News in sight for registration, inheritance and stamp duties. The government is working on a legislative decree in an attempt to simplify the obligations of heirs and the professionals who assist them. The content of the succession declaration is lightened but with the constraint of submitting it only electronically. The possibility of sending the report by registered mail or by other means will remain possible only for residents abroad. The decree aims to eliminate requests for so much data. For example, cadastral extracts are eliminated.
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RECORD MARCH. March 2024 was the warmest March on record. This was announced by the EU weather service Copernicus. The global average temperature last month was 14.4°C, 0.73°C higher than the 30-year average from 1991 to 2020. But it was also 1.68°C warmer than the March 1850 average – 1900, reference period of the pre-industrial era.
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. Today we are witnessing a progressive worsening of the weather in the northern regions. Showers and thunderstorms possible from the morning between Piedmont and Liguria, then from the afternoon Lombardy will also be involved and towards the evening also Veneto, especially eastern Veneto and Trentino. The phenomena could be strong and in the nature of a cloudburst with hailstorms.
MIDNIGHT EARTHQUAKE. An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 was recorded at 11.59pm in western Greece. Warned in Southern Italy, especially in Calabria and Puglia: there would be no damage.
ROAD MURDER. The thirty-one-year-old is being investigated for vehicular homicide who, having tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, caused the death of two carabinieri by running them over with her SUV along the state road that connects Eboli to Campagna, in the Salerno area. In the past the woman had been arrested for drugs.
CARERS BONUS. The launch of the carers bonus, according to sector associations, “is a significant step” towards supporting one of the most vulnerable groups: non-self-sufficient elderly people over 80 with ISEE under 6 thousand euros, who hire a domestic worker. The estimate is around 25 thousand recipients. However, the choice of such a low income limit excludes many who, with a slightly higher ISEE, live on the poverty line.
ALL IN SARDINIA. Vox populi according to which “half of Italy” will choose Sardinia in the summer of 2024 seems well founded. The 5,000 accommodation facilities are already sold out. Forecasting models based on purchasing data processed by some data centers reveal that 35% of hotel rooms are already booked. 15 percentage points more than last year.
SWISS LIMIT. The UDC, the main Swiss centre-right formation, is launching a signature collection for a popular initiative law that limits the population of the Swiss Federation to ten million inhabitants. An “anti-immigration” move that will cause a lot of discussion.
ETHAN’S LAW. A 3-year-old girl finds her father’s gun in her house and shoots himself in her eye: she is dead. She happens in Philadelphia and the debate on the issue of weapons left unattended in Americans’ homes reopens. In 2023, at least 377 unintentional shootings by children, with 145 deaths. What is Ethan’s Law.
DENGUE. Argentina received a donation from Mexico yesterday of around 20,000 packs of mosquito repellent, a product now unavailable in Buenos Aires amid the worst dengue epidemic in history.
INTER SCUDETTO. In the postponement of the 31st matchday of Serie A football, Inter beat 2-1 at Udinese and sewed half the Scudetto on their chest, moving up to +14 on Milan. Champions: tonight the first leg of the quarterfinals, with Real-City and Arsenal-Bayern.
THE PICTURE. USA and Mexico for just four minutes with their noses in the air to enjoy the most disorientating and publicized astronomical phenomenon in history, the total eclipse which stretched its shadow crossing 15 states of America at 2,400 kilometers per hour.
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