Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $17,023
21%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 21%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: robertocastelli

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Italy justice minister wants to fine burka wearers

    06/17/2005 11:42:40 AM PDT · by an italian · 10 replies · 587+ views
    world news article ^ | 16th june 2005 | an italian
    By Rachel Sanderson ROME (Reuters) - Italy's justice minister, a member of the right-wing Northern League party, was accused of fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment in Italy on Sunday after saying he would fine women wearing the all-covering burka. Roberto Castelli said an Italian law banning the covering of a person's face in public would be applied to women wearing the full-length religious robe that hides the head and face. "To go around with your face covered is a crime, you can't do it," Castelli told reporters. "Women who do so must be reported to the police and fined." Castelli's outburst is...
  • Italy goes after it's lost terrorists

    09/26/2004 8:40:08 AM PDT · by LadyDoc · 8 replies · 701+ views
    The New Zealand News ^ | 8-26-04 | Peter Popham
    Italy goes after its lost terrorists 26.08.2004 By PETER POPHAM in Rome Incensed by the disappearance last weekend from Paris of convicted terrorist Cesari Battisti, Italy says it will press France and Nicaragua to return 12 other convicted left-wing terrorists who have evaded justice by living in exile. They include Alessio Casimirri, the only member of the Red Brigade gang that kidnapped and killed former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro still at liberty. He is living in Nicaragua. All the others are believed to be in France. France agreed in 2002 to return Italians who are wanted for serious crimes,...