Italy’s conservative government on Thursday approved a new decree banning face-covering Islamic veils — including burqas and niqabs — in schools and putting a limit on the number of students with a poor command of the Italian language in each classroom.
After a 20-year-old Italian citizen of Egyptian origin allegedly raped a 12-year-old boy, the child’s relatives used convenience store surveillance footage to identify the suspect and later stabbed him in the legs. The Egyptian-Italian suspect was arrested and confessed to sexually assaulting the boy in a public park in Turin’s northern outskirts, authorities said.
I don’t think they were going for his legs.
Piddington’s recent declaration of independence may not have stopped the UK government’s plan to turn a nearby army base into a migrant camp. But the Oxfordshire village has nevertheless been hugely successful in drawing attention to the problem of where to house illegal migrants.
ROME (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Sunday she’ll soon introduce a measure to her government that would cap the number of foreign students in classrooms and ban the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools.
Meloni told the youth wing of her nationalist conservative Brothers of Italy party that the measure would also make Italian language lessons compulsory for parents of foreign students having “serious difficulties integrating into the school system.”
"If you want to wear hijab or burqa, leave. Burn hijab!" A loud and clear message from Pontida, Italy. Muslims have been crying for hours because they don't want this video to spread. https://t.co/eMYZNqeTWS pic.twitter.com/VdrDFnKQ0Y
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) September 20, 2026
Italy’s political row over judges’ lenient handling of migrant criminals has intensified after a 42-year-old Bangladeshi shop assistant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the outskirts of Turin was released from prison after just two nights.
The crime occurred on Saturday, August 29th in Madonna di Campagna, a multi-ethnic district in the northern Italian city.
According to the girl’s account, she entered a minimarket to buy three fruit drinks for her younger siblings. She said the shop assistant gave her a drink, asked whether she had a boyfriend and how old she was, before sexually assaulting her.
Italy cancels U.S. trip after Meloni denies Trump’s claim she ‘begged for a photo’
Italian PM Meloni to Trump:
So, certain things deserve an immediate response.
Donald Trump's statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly appalled. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his allies; after all, it's not the first time… pic.twitter.com/6ahylULwmX
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 19, 2026
Context: Meloni’s statement was a direct response to a claim Donald Trump made in a recent interview with Italian TV channel La7 (on the program Aria che Tira).
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Trump alleged that at the recent G7 summit in France, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had “begged” him for a joint photograph. He said words to the effect of: “She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.” He also suggested she was probably happy he even spoke to her.
A classic
h/t Mauser
Several thousand people took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to demand remigration policies, stronger border controls, and increased deportations of illegal immigrants.
The demonstration was organized by the citizen initiative “Remigration and Reconquest,” which says it has collected around 50,000 signatures in support of a legislative proposal on immigration and migrant returns that it intends to submit to the Italian Parliament.
President Donald Trump threatened last week to withdraw troops from Italy. The threat followed his public accusation that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “lacked courage” after she defended Pope Leo XIV against Trump’s attacks, and refused to allow U.S. warplanes to transit Italian airspace for strikes on Iran. These two leaders began 2025 as close allies. That now seems like a long time ago.
A network of migration lawyers in Italy is allegedly gaming asylum laws by presenting migrants as gay or at risk of family persecution to halt deportations, an investigation by Il Giornale claims.
The paper also alleges that the lawyers tell migrants to say they would face persecution from their families if they returned home.
Sex attack horror as young Italian couple are surrounded by three migrants who smash into their car and force boyfriend to watch as they rape his 18-year-old fiancée
A man was held down and forced to watch as migrants who smashed into his car raped his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to police in Rome.
The couple had parked in a quiet corner of Tor Tre Teste, a park in the eastern part of the capital, for privacy, minutes before they were surrounded by the group who attacked their vehicle.
Police said the attackers broke the window and first pulled the man, 24, from the car before forcing the woman out as she tried to cover herself with an item of clothing.
Can someone please put this woman in charge of the southern border, and pronto? Based on her recent success in staunching the flow of illegal migrants, the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, might work wonders where Vice President Harris has, for the most part, failed.
According to new figures from the Italian interior ministry, illegal arrivals in 2024 to date have fallen by 65 percent compared to last year, with 40,138 migrants disembarking on Italian shores as of August 27 compared to 113,469 over the same period in 2023.
The Italian government could give 1,000 euros a month to economically disadvantaged women who choose not to have an abortion.
A bill, which is due to be tabled in the coming days, would award the monthly payments for five years to women who would have terminated their pregnancies due to financial hardship. Women who are on low household incomes and who are Italian citizens residing in Italy will qualify for the measures, Corriere della Sera reports.
Following in the footsteps of the European capitals of Paris and Brussels, Rome is fast emerging as a place where would-be Islamists are made, an undercover investigation by the conservative daily Il Tempo reveals.
Several underground mosques in the Eternal City, the report states, are spreading hatred for the Western world, its values, and its people.
Described as “hidden places of worship,” these underground mosques—initially founded to serve the increasing number of Muslim immigrants following the 2015 European migrant crisis—are seen as potential hotbeds for radicalization, with fears that individuals may be indoctrinated into extremist ideologies, posing security threats to society.
Over the weekend, a homeless Nigerian migrant attacked an Italian woman in the street in an apparent rape attempt so vicious that the woman later died in hospital from her injuries. The case is causing tensions between members of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition as League leader Matteo Salvini has demanded to know why the man was even in Italy in the first place.
Italian special forces have stormed a cargo ship sailing from Turkey to France after about 15 migrants armed with knives attempted to hijack the vessel.
The asylum seekers, whose nationality has not been disclosed, had allegedly sneaked undetected on to the roll-on, roll-off cargo ship, named Galatea Seaways, in the hope of reaching Europe.
The vessel, designed to carry vehicles and sailing under a Turkish flag with 22 crew members, set off from Topçular in Turkey on 7 June and was headed for Sète in southern France, Italy’s defence ministry told the press.
