Italian president Sergio Mattarella has effectively pardoned a former CIA agent convicted of involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric as part of a controversial US programme that kidnapped suspects for interrogation.
A group of youths accosted an Italian Jewish sportscaster after their team lost a key match in London.
A senior source at the Egyptian forensics authority on Saturday revealed that 28-year-old Giulio Regeni, an Italian student found dead in Cairo last week, was tortured to death in a highly unusual and disturbing manner.
The president of the Italian Football Federation said he has “nothing against” Jews and gays, but that he prefers to keep such people at a distance.