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Ischia: A stolen e-bike leads to an entire warehouse of stolen vehicles: three reports filed.
Ischia - From a complaint to a chain of investigations. It all began with a mother's report: someone had stolen her son's e-bike by forcing the chain that secured it in front of the high school. A seemingly ordinary incident, but it was enough to trigger an investigation by the Carabinieri station...
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Campi Flegrei, the earth is accelerating: the ground is rising 2,5 centimeters per month.
Naples – High levels of concern remain over the Phlegraean Fields, where bradyseism has experienced a new, worrying acceleration. The ground has resumed rising at a faster rate, reaching an average of approximately 25 millimeters per month. This data emerges from the latest weekly monitoring bulletin released by the Vesuvius Observatory...
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Tragedy in Ischia: 50-year-old Ukrainian man dies in hotel; police investigate
Ischia – A 50-year-old man of Ukrainian origin was found dead this morning in a hotel in the center of Ischia Porto. Local police have opened an investigation to reconstruct the exact circumstances of the incident. According to initial reports, the 50-year-old had gone to the hotel to...
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Child gunmen in Quarto: a 15-year-old boy shoots a man in the street.
Fourth - They're just fifteen, the age of school and their first outings with friends. But their evenings, instead of spending time in a pizzeria or a town square, are spent speeding around on a scooter with a gun. This is the disconcerting picture that emerges from the operation of...
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Forio, a massive brawl broke out on the pitch at the Under-16 match: Carabinieri arrived. Ten young soccer players were involved.
Forio d'Ischia, Panza – A morning of youth sports turned into an unacceptable episode of violence at the San Leonardo municipal stadium. Yesterday, during the match between the under-16 amateur teams of ASD Barano Calcio Academy and ASD Emanuele Troise, a brawl broke out involving...
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Ambush in Pozzuoli: 52-year-old man wounded by gunshots to the legs
Pozzuoli – Moments of fear erupted this morning on Via Cicerone in Pozzuoli, where a 52-year-old man was shot. The man, already known to law enforcement, was struck in the legs by bullets fired by a still unknown assailant. He was rescued and rushed to...
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Earthquake at dawn in Naples and Campi Flegrei
Naples - A new seismic swarm struck the Campi Flegrei area and part of the city of Naples at dawn. Beginning in the early hours of November 9, 2025, the INGV seismic network recorded a sequence of at least twenty closely spaced tremors, the first shortly after...
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Ischia, the fatal tattoo: the ace of spades frames the thief
Ischia – A daring overnight theft, but an impossible-to-hide tattoo turned a masterstroke into a resounding own goal. Carabinieri from the local station have reported a 29-year-old local man, already known to law enforcement, for aggravated theft that emptied the cash register of...
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Baia is reborn with the new Cumana station: 3D statues and technology to enhance archaeology.
Bacoli – The new Baia railway station, on the Cumana line, opens its doors to the public, becoming a bridge between past and future. Inaugurated in the presence of Campania Regional President Vincenzo De Luca, Bacoli Mayor Josi della Ragione, and local authorities, the facility represents a...
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Ischia: Carabinieri raid: 52-year-old arrested for dealing cocaine from home
Ischia – He thought he could get away with it by flushing the drugs down the toilet, but the Carabinieri of the Ischia Company arrived moments earlier. A 52-year-old man, already known to law enforcement, was arrested after a raid last night at his apartment, where he had set up a veritable...
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Campi Flegrei, a €1,4 billion mega-plan: safety measures underway, combining reconstruction and prevention.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a loan of up to €1,4 billion for Italy to support the reconstruction and safety of buildings in the Campi Flegrei area, an area affected by repeated seismic events and bradyseismic phenomena since...
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Pozzuoli: Six undeclared workers and serious hygiene deficiencies discovered: premises on Via Antiniana closed.
Pozzuoli returns to the forefront of joint enforcement operations to combat illegal work and urban decay. A business on Via Antiniana was closed after a raid conducted by officers from the Pozzuoli Police Station with the support of the Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza, Municipal Police, Fire Brigade, and staff from the Naples 2 North Local Health Authority.
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Breakthrough at Campi Flegrei: Signal discovered that precedes the strongest earthquakes
Naples - A potentially decisive step forward in understanding seismic phenomena at Campi Flegrei. A new study, published in the prestigious journal JGR Solid Earth, has identified for the first time a clear "preparatory phase" preceding the highest magnitude earthquakes. The research, the result of a collaboration between...
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Earthquakes in the Phlegraean Fields: The discovery: "It's not just bradyseism, a fault is activating."
Rome – The intensifying earthquakes that have been shaking the Campi Flegrei for months, with tremors exceeding magnitude 4 and causing localized damage and significant apprehension between Pozzuoli and Bagnoli, now have a more precise scientific explanation. It's no longer (or not just) a simple "stretching"...
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Pozzuoli's Rione Terra district has signed a revitalization agreement: reopening in summer 2026.
After more than half a century, the Rione Terra district of Pozzuoli is finally preparing for rebirth. An agreement has been signed, marking the beginning of the operational phase for the protection and enhancement of the ancient Phlegraean Fortress, closed for 55 years and a symbol of a city that has never stopped looking...
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Ancient Via Campana: Traces of a Hidden Prehistoric Past Revealed
Pozzuoli – A significant archaeological discovery sheds light on a very remote era in the Phlegraean Fields, uncovering prehistoric traces along the historic Via Campana, in the Pozzuoli area. These rectangular cuts and furrows oriented northeast, identified as early as 2009, are now...
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Ischia, tragedy narrowly avoided: a remote-controlled helicopter nearly two meters high crashes into the houses.
There were moments of fear last night in Casamicciola Terme, on the island of Ischia, where a remote-controlled helicopter, measuring 1.7 meters long and weighing approximately eight kilograms, crashed into the town center on Via De Luca. The aircraft, operated by a 58-year-old local man, crashed to the ground after...
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The Campi Flegrei area is also shaking: a magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck.
A night of apprehension in Campania, where seismic activity affected two sensitive areas: the Phlegraean Fields and the Avellino area. While Irpinia is trying to recover from last night's magnitude 4.0 earthquake, the Phlegraean volcanic area was hit by an intense seismic swarm, rekindling concerns about bradyseism. Phlegraean Fields...
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Forio d'Ischia: Children write to the Carabinieri: "You are our brave angels."
Ischia - "We may not know you, but we know you protect us." "I feel safe with you; you are angels to me." These are just some of the phrases written in a halting hand but with genuine emotion by students at an elementary school in Forio d'Ischia, who wanted to dedicate a thought to the Carabinieri...
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Cumana Railway: Trains will return to Gerolomini starting tomorrow.
The Cumana line returns to its long-distance service. Starting tomorrow, train service will be extended to the Gerolomini station, restoring a long-awaited connection for commuters and residents of the Campi Flegrei area. Currently, the line was only active on the Torregaveta–Arco Felice stretch, but with the new extension, it will once again cover...
Article published on May 13, 2023 - 19:51 PM - Web Master
