Two years after the seizure of approximately 23.000 ancient coins and 195 archaeological finds aboard a ship from Alexandria, Egypt, investigators have closed their investigation into a vast trafficking network of archaeological finds to Italy.
Two years after the seizure of approximately 23.000 ancient coins and 195 archaeological artifacts aboard a ship from Alexandria, Egypt—including gold funerary masks, several amphorae, and a sarcophagus—in the port of Salerno, investigators have closed their investigation into a large-scale trafficking of archaeological artifacts to Italy. Egyptian Attorney General Ahmed Sadek has issued an international arrest warrant for the former Italian Honorary Consul in Luxor, LOS.
The former consul, upon the conclusion of his mandate, no longer had any contact with Italian diplomacy. As part of the same investigation, several Egyptian officials were arrested and the former consul's Cairo home was searched. Egyptian experts identified the artifacts. They came from clandestine excavations in the Minya region, 250 kilometers south of Cairo, home to catacombs dating to the late Pharaonic period, from 664 to 332 BC. This area has been subjected to several lootings since 2011.
Naples – Tense moments occurred last night at Naples Central Station, where a routine security check escalated into violence. A man, a non-EU citizen who was later found to be illegally residing in Italy, was arrested by the State Police on charges of resisting arrest and assaulting a public official after attacking train staff…
Maddaloni, a 14-year-old boy robbed by two peers armed with knives: the stolen goods were recovered.
MADDALONI – They threatened a peer with a knife and stole his wallet, smartphone, and electric bicycle. The two minors involved in the incident were both reported to the Juvenile Court for conspiracy to commit robbery after the intervention of the Carabinieri of the local station.
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon, around 16.30pm, near a bar in via Forche Caudine, in Maddaloni, in the province of Caserta. According to the military's reconstruction, the victim, a 14-year-old boy who was with a friend, was approached by two peers. After threatening him with a knife, the two men took his personal belongings and then quickly fled.
NAPLES – The child admitted to Monaldi Hospital in serious condition after receiving a damaged heart transplant has been placed first on the Italian transplant list. His mother, Patrizia, announced the news during a live broadcast on the program. Life live su Rai 1.
"They've put him first on the Italian transplant list," the woman explained, noting that she was informed directly by the ministry. This news represents a crucial step in the race against time to save the little boy, whose condition remains delicate but, according to the doctors, is compatible with another operation.
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