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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Italy will take special measures to meet the new terror threat posed by attacks such as the one in India that has killed over 100 people, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Friday. The minister said Italian security chiefs were consulting American and European counterparts and would draft new security guidelines as soon as possible. "What happened in Mumbai was an exceptional event and requires...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Italy's Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, has described it as a civil war – and 18 bullets pumped into an innocent man playing cards on a Sunday morning proved him right.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Madrid - Spain and Italy clarified their spat over Madrid's immigration policies on Friday, after Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni described Spain's system as permissive, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
The local mafia in southern Italy has declared a "war on the state", Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni warns.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
The Camorra, the Naples organized crime group, has declared civil war on the state, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told the Italian Senate.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Milan - Italy's Minister of Interior Roberto Maroni has censured Catania's general manager Piero Lo Monaco for a verbal attack against Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho. I'm frankly amazed by the statements of certain Serie A managers, which sound lik...
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ESPN (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni announced on Wednesday that Catania fans will be banned from travelling to the San Siro on Saturday for their team's away Serie A game at Internazionale.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni plans to request a substantial increase in troops to patrol the country's major cities, boosting the 3,000 soldiers deployed last month to help police combat crime and improve security, Italian News Agency ADNKRONOS said on Friday. "The results have been extremely interesting. The soldiers and members of the Italian security forces have done a great job together,"...
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Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
A while back I was shocked top hear that Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni had proposed a policy of police fingerprinting of all members of the Italian Roma/Gypsy Community. Photo: Ruscombe tree I am now even more shocked to learn that according to the Guardian newspaper, fingerprinting of Roma children has already begun. Moreover, Italy's highest appeal court has, in effect, ruled that
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Milan - The Italian government Wednesday issued a ban on Napoli fans attending away games the Serie A side play this season as part of a package of measures designed to curb football hooliganism. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced the crackdo...
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BLOGDIAL (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana hit out at the religious values of the Italian government on Monday as the furore over a plan by Interior Minister Roberto Maroni to fingerprint all children in the country’s gypsy camps rumbled on. “The ‘Catholic’ ministers of Silvio Berlusconi’s government have fallen at the first hurdle, without appeal,” said the weekly, [...] ShareThis
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Italian officials say the number of illegal immigrants to their nation has doubled over one year ago.More than 15,000 illegal immigrants, mostly from North Africa, came to the European Union through Italy in the first seven months of 2008, the BBC reported Saturday.Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, whose Northern League party has campaigned strongly against clandestine immigration, made the announcement....
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
I don't think anyone is under any illusions – apart from the British media as to why Berlusconi has put 3,000 armed troops on the streets of major Italian cities. Ostensibly a measure to "help cut down crime", something claimed by both interior minister Roberto Maroni and his defence colleague Ignazio La Russo, this is nothing more than a fig-leaf, the Italians themselves being very well aware that...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
The Italian government Tuesday said it is deploying 3,000 military troops on the streets of Rome and other cities, responding to calls to fight crime.Interior Minister Roberto Maroni and Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said they would launch a six-month pilot effort to deploy the soldiers starting next week, the Italian news service ANSA reported.The officials said some of the military units would...
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Shariah Finance Watch (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni threatened to shut down the Viale Jenner mosque in Milan. The European Affairs minister, Andrea Rochi, threatened to dismiss imams who do not recognize Israel. Italy also featured on the news when the story broke of an eleven year old who was sold by her parents to a 21 year [...]
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www.italica.sm | 05/08/2008
[ Italica ] – Silvio Berlusconi was sworn in today as Prime Minister of the 62nd Italy's post-war government. His cabinet is composed by 21 members and only four of them are women. Ministers for foreign and internal affairs are respectively Franco Frattini and Roberto Maroni, justice minister is now Angelino Alfano and Ignazio La Russa is defence minister. Giulio Tremonti becomes finance minister
