Italian PM Meloni calls Olympics protestors 'enemies of Italy'
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called those who demonstrate against the Winter Olympic Games "enemies of Italy" following weekend protests against the presence of US ICE agents and environmental and sustainability concerns.
Large crowds marched in Milan on Saturday in protest against the Games, with a small number setting off fireworks and clashing with police in riot shields, AFP reported.
"Thousands and thousands of Italians are working so that everything functions during the Olympics," the premier wrote on social media on Sunday.
"Then there are the enemies of Italy and of the Italians, who demonstrate 'against the Olympics,' causing these images [of clashes with police] to end up on televisions around the world."
Food delivery company investigated over rider exploitation
The Milan Prosecutor's Office has filed a request for Foodinho, the food delivery service owned by Spanish giant Glovo, to be placed under judicial administration over alleged labour exploitation, Sky Italia reported on Monday.
Foodinho, which employs around 40,000 riders across Italy, paid workers wages "below the poverty line," according to the emergency order signed by Prosecutor Paolo Storari.
A preliminary investigations judge will decide whether to grant the request, which would involve replacing the company's management with a court-appointed judicial administrator.
Foodinho and its Spanish CEO Pierre Miquel Oscar have reportedly been placed under investigation for gangmastering.
Italian suspect questioned over Sarajevo sniper killings
An 80-year-old man suspected of being a "weekend sniper" who paid the Bosnian Serb army to let him shoot civilians during the 1990s siege of Sarajevo was questioned Monday in Milan, AFP reported on Monday.
The octogenarian former truck driver from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy is suspected by Milan prosecutors of "voluntary homicide aggravated by abject motives", according to Ansa.
In October, prosecutors opened an investigation into what Italian media dubbed "weekend snipers" or "war tourists": mostly wealthy, gun-loving, far-right sympathisers who allegedly gathered in Trieste and were taken to the hills surrounding Sarajevo where they fired on civilians for sport.
Lawyer Giovanni Menegon told journalists that his client had answered questions from prosecutors and police and "reaffirmed his complete innocence".
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