A man in his forties, described as having psychological problems, was intercepted. He entered the Vatican at high speed through the St. Anne's Gate shortly after 8:00 pm.
Italian police launched a manhunt Thursday after two alleged Chinese prostitutes and a Colombian transgender sex worker were found dead in an upscale Rome neighborhood.
Four people are dead and five others are missing after a four-story building collapsed due to an explosion in the town of Ravanusa, Sicily. Two women were found alive under the rubble and rescue workers, aided by dogs, were still looking for the missing persons.
The Italian police released a video on Twitter tracing an operation conducted in Rome, Milan, Bergamo, Reggio Emilia, Venice and Padua. It is a large operation of simultaneous searches in the context of an investigation targeting people suspected of being against the anti-Covid vaccine (called No Vax in Italy). These people would have met on a messaging network to prepare a violent demonstration.
The living bodies of a woman and a man were discovered in a farmhouse in San Lorenzo, Calabria. According to the Ansa news agency, they were trying to save an olive grove from the flames. Aircraft have been deployed in the area. Fires are ravaging the regions of Calabria, Sicily and Puglia, among others.