16 February: Three workers are killed, three are injured and two are missing after a collapse during the construction of a new supermarket inFlorence.[3]
17 June: Elevenmigrants are killed and 64 others are reported missing following sinkings involving two separate vessels off thesouthern Italian coast.[17]
TheItalian Parliament passes a law granting more autonomy to the country'sregions following a night of debate. The oppositionDemocratic Party and former Prime MinisterMatteo Renzi express opposition to the bill, with the latter launching a campaign to force a referendum.[19]
21 June – Eight workers are critically injured during an explosion at a factory inBolzano.[20]
18 July – A court convicts journalist Giulia Cortese for "body shaming" Prime MinisterGiorgia Meloni on social media and sentences her to pay €5,000 in damages.[27]
23 July – Two people are killed while 12 others are injured after a walkway collapses at a housing complex inNaples.[28]
26 July – Italy appoints an ambassador toSyria after 12 years, becoming the firstG7 country to do so since theSyrian Civil War.[29]
19 August – The luxury yachtBayesiansinks in a heavy storm off the coast ofPorticello,Sicily, leaving seven people dead, including British tech entrepreneurMike Lynch. Fifteen people are rescued.[31][32]
4 September – Seven people are rescued and at least 21 others remain missing after a boat carrying Syrian migrants fromLibya capsizes off the coast ofLampedusa in thePelagie Islands.[33]
5 September – One person is reported missing following floods nearTurin.[34]
6 September – Culture ministerGennaro Sangiuliano resigns after admitting to having an affair with a ministry consultant and is replaced byAlessandro Giuli.[35]
12 September – Three Chinese nationals are killed in a suspectedarson attack on a shop inMilan.[37]
13 September – TheGuardia di Finanza carries out a major operation againstvideo game piracy involving 47 million euros worth of games from the 1980s and 1990s installed on unauthorized consoles and plagiarism of the originals, leading to the dismantling of shops and suppliers inTurin,Naples, andBari.[38]
22 September – Three people are killed, three others are injured, and one person is reported missing after a two-story building collapses inNaples.[40]
25 September – Three people are killed and three others are injured in ashooting spree inNuoro. The perpetrator kills himself.[41]
30 September – Nineteen people are arrested by police following nationwide raids on suspicion of involvement with the'Ndrangheta, including the leaders of the respectiveultras ofInter Milan andAC Milan.[43]
3 October – 184 people are evacuated fromRyanair Flight FR8826, aBoeing 737-800 after it caught fire after a no.2 engine surge atBrindisi Airport while taxiing the runway.[44]
7 October – Football playerMarco Curto is given a 10-match ban byFIFA, with five them of them suspended, for racially abusing South Korean playerHwang Hee-chan in a pre-season friendly.[45]
14 October – Italy initiates the transfer ofmigrants toAlbania under a new agreement.[47]
16 October – TheSenate votes 84-58 in favor of extending a ban onsurrogacy to couples who go abroad to avail of the procedure.[48]
18 October – A court in Italy orders a halt to the government's policy of sending migrants to Albania, citing rulings by theEuropean Court of Justice regarding the safety of repatriating migrants to their countries of origin.[49]
20 October –
One person is killed during flooding caused by heavy rains in Botteghino di Zocca (frazione ofPianoro,Emilia-Romagna).[50]
21 October – The government removesCameroon,Colombia andNigeria from its list of countries deemed safe to return migrants to in response to legal challenges.[52]
27 October – Authorities announce the arrest of four people as part of an investigation intocyberattacks that targeted law enforcement, tax authorities and other sensitive public data and compromised information regarding 800,000 people as early as 2022 on behalf of a private investigative agency.[53]
19 November – Authorities announce the recovery ofEtruscan artifacts valued at 8 million euros ($8.5 million) from an illegal excavation site inUmbria.[55]
9 December – Four people are killed in an explosion at anEni fuel depot inCalenzano,Tuscany.[57]
20 December – A court inPalermo acquits deputy prime ministerMatteo Salvini of charges relating to the illegal detention of 100 migrants that he refused to disembark from the humanitarian rescue vesselOpen Arms that docked inLampedusa in 2019.[58]
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