Prosecutors to investigate Colosseum worker death
The Rome Prosecutor’s Office has opened a manslaughter investigation into the death of Andrea Moretti, who was killed on Tuesday night while installing a new lighting system at the Colosseum, Sky TG24 reported.
Moretti’s harness was reportedly not fastened to a rope when he fell from a height of 10 metres. The 22-year-old from Teramo in Abruzzo was a keen rock climber sought after for his high-altitude rope work.
Authorities initially closed the second level of the Colosseum to the public on Wednesday, later closing off the entire structure after workers’ unions objected that keeping the site open showed a lack of respect.
Italy saw a small decline of just over 3 percent in workplace fatalities last year, according to the latest annual report from workers compensation authority Inail, though the country still registered 1,189 deaths in total – an average of more than three per day.
Rome and Naples among Italian cities worst-hit by climate change
Rome and Naples are in the top three Italian cities that have been worst-affected by climate change over the past 50 years, with Foggia in southern Italy topping the list and Milan coming in 10th, according to a new study.
The 2026 edition of the 21st Century Climate Report, a joint initiative between Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and weather site ILMeteo.it, looked at criteria including the number of days of intense heat and ‘tropical’ and ‘supertropical’ nights, as well as average summer temperatures.
The mean annual temperature in Foggia rose by 3.6°C between 1975 and 2025, the data showed, with the city experiencing an additional 64 nights with temperatures over 25°C since the 1980s.
The least affected cities were Cuneo, L'Aquila, Aosta, Bolzano, and Potenza, which benefit from their high altitude and/or close proximity to mountains.
Police thwart knife attack on teacher
Members of Italy’s Carabinieri police force prevented a 14-year-old student from carrying out a knife attack on his teacher at a school in Lamezia Terme, southern Italy, national media reported on Tuesday.
Police learned of the planned attack by intercepting messages in a Telegram group, seizing the boy’s mobile phone and clothing worn in social media photos in a search of his home, according to news agency Ansa.
The student had reportedly hidden the weapon he was planning to use in the school’s restrooms.
There have been a series of attacks by pupils on teachers in Italy in recent months, including the high-profile stabbing of a teacher in Rome last Friday by a 13-year-old student who was disarmed by one of his classmates.
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