Milan (CNN)A of famed Italian journalist Indro Montanelli in Milan has been painted red and sprayed with the words "racist" and "rapist," while a petition has called for its removal. While serving in the army in 1935-1936, during Italy's war in Eritrea, the 26-year-old Montanelli bought and . During a 1969 interview with Italian journalist and activist Elvira Banotti, Montanelli said he was married to the child because he "bought" her, which he said was part of the region's tradition and common among Eritrean soldiers. When Banotti pressed Montanelli on whether he had raped the girl, named...…Milan (CNN)A of famed Italian journalist Indro Montanelli in Milan has been painted red and sprayed with the words "racist" and "rapist," while a petition has called for its removal. While serving in the army in 1935-1936, during Italy's war in Eritrea, the 26-year-old Montanelli bought and . During a 1969 interview with Italian journalist and activist Elvira Banotti, Montanelli said he was married to the child because he "bought" her, which he said was part of the region's tradition and common among Eritrean soldiers. When Banotti pressed Montanelli on whether he had raped the girl, named...WW…

(CNN)Police in discovered stuffed inside individually hollowed-out coffee beans, after opening a parcel addressed to a fictional Mafia boss from a Hollywood movie.Investigators found 130 grams of cocaine in a two kilogram shipment of coffee beans that arrived at Milan's Malpensa Airport from Colombia, according to a statement from the Guardia di Finanza financial police.Customs officers decided to check the package after noticing that its intended recipient shared the name of a fictional character: Santino D'Antonio, a Mafia boss in the movie John Wick: Chapter 2, Italian police told...…(CNN)Police in discovered stuffed inside individually hollowed-out coffee beans, after opening a parcel addressed to a fictional Mafia boss from a Hollywood movie.Investigators found 130 grams of cocaine in a two kilogram shipment of coffee beans that arrived at Milan's Malpensa Airport from Colombia, according to a statement from the Guardia di Finanza financial police.Customs officers decided to check the package after noticing that its intended recipient shared the name of a fictional character: Santino D'Antonio, a Mafia boss in the movie John Wick: Chapter 2, Italian police told...WW…

By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — The late Pope John Paul II was warned about allegations of sexual impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but chose to promote him to Archbishop of Washington anyway following McCarrick’s own denials and an investigation by American bishops that returned “inaccurate and incomplete information,” an internal Vatican investigation concluded Tuesday.The report into the Vatican’s handling of the highest ranking Church figure to be defrocked over sexual abuse comes after two years of investigation, and years of scrutiny over how McCarrick was allowed...…By , , and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — The late Pope John Paul II was warned about allegations of sexual impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but chose to promote him to Archbishop of Washington anyway following McCarrick’s own denials and an investigation by American bishops that returned “inaccurate and incomplete information,” an internal Vatican investigation concluded Tuesday.The report into the Vatican’s handling of the highest ranking Church figure to be defrocked over sexual abuse comes after two years of investigation, and years of scrutiny over how McCarrick was allowed...WW…

By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — met with at the Vatican on Monday in their first meeting since Pell’s return to Rome late last month following his acquittal on child sex abuse charges in his native Australia.The Vatican did not provide any details on what the two men discussed.Pell arrived at Rome’s Fiumicino airport from Sydney on September 30. A source told CNN they did not know his official reason for for going nor how long he planned to stay there.Pell served at the Vatican from 2014-2019 as Minister of Economy, in charge of Pope Francis’ financial reforms, which largely...…By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback — met with at the Vatican on Monday in their first meeting since Pell’s return to Rome late last month following his acquittal on child sex abuse charges in his native Australia.The Vatican did not provide any details on what the two men discussed.Pell arrived at Rome’s Fiumicino airport from Sydney on September 30. A source told CNN they did not know his official reason for for going nor how long he planned to stay there.Pell served at the Vatican from 2014-2019 as Minister of Economy, in charge of Pope Francis’ financial reforms, which largely...WW…

Updated 11th June 2020Credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty ImagesBanksy artwork stolen from Paris' Bataclan theater is found in ItalyItalian police have found a Banksy artwork that was in Paris last year.Two sources with the Carabinieri paramilitary police force of the central Italian region of Abruzzo told CNN on Wednesday that one of their units found the painting in the province of Teramo.The sources were not authorized to speak on the record, and they declined to give more details of the investigation that led them to the discovery.The Italian prosecutor leading the investigation is...…Updated 11th June 2020Credit: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty ImagesBanksy artwork stolen from Paris' Bataclan theater is found in ItalyItalian police have found a Banksy artwork that was in Paris last year.Two sources with the Carabinieri paramilitary police force of the central Italian region of Abruzzo told CNN on Wednesday that one of their units found the painting in the province of Teramo.The sources were not authorized to speak on the record, and they declined to give more details of the investigation that led them to the discovery.The Italian prosecutor leading the investigation is...WW…