2007 in Italy
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Events during the year 2007 in Italy.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 January - Abu Omar case: hearings begin on whether to charge 25 CIA agents with kidnapping for the "extraordinary rendition" of Osama Nasr in 2003. The named agents have left the country. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
- 13 January - 10 former members of the SS are sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for their role in the Marzabotto massacre, the worst massacre in Italy during World War II. (BBC)
- 2 February - One 38-year-old policeman is killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy. 71 people are taken to the hospital.
- 3 February - After calls from Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi to cancel all matches, Italian Football Federation commissioner Luca Pancalli indefinitely suspends all football matches in Italy while an investigation into riots begins. (The Guardian) (Wikinews)
- 12 February - Police arrest 15 people in raids in northern Italy, who the police claimed were associated with the Red Brigades terrorist group. (BBC)
- 16 February - An Italian judge has ordered 26 U.S. citizens, most of them CIA agents, to stand trial over the Osama Nasr kidnapping in Milan in 2003. (BBC)
- 16 February - The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai meets in Rome with the Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi to discuss Italian contributions to the fight against the Taliban and drug traffickers in Afghanistan. (BBC) (→ Afghanistan–Italy relations)
- 17 February - Italians demonstrate against the expansion of a United States Army base in Vicenza, home of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. (BBC)
- 19 February - Between 40,000 to 100,000 Italians march in protest against the extension of Caserma Ederle, a United States Army military base near Vicenza. (BBC)
- 21 February - Romano Prodi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, after a defeat by two votes in the Senate. (Ansa Notizie) (BBC)
- 22 February - Leaders of Italy's centre-left coalition have agreed to support Romano Prodi and a 12-point program meaning that he can resume serving as Prime Minister of Italy. (Reuters via Swissinfo)
- 27 February - The ambassadors from the United States and Italy to Sri Lanka are injured by mortar fire while visiting eastern Sri Lanka. (CNN) (→ Sri Lankan civil war)
- 28 February - Romano Prodi survives a no-confidence motion in the Senate. (CNN)
- 1 March - India requests the extradition of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi from Argentina in relation to the Bofors scandal. (NDTV)
- 2 March - Italian leader Romano Prodi is reinstated as prime minister after winning his second and final confidence vote in the Parliament, ending a political crisis that began last week when Prodi resigned after losing a foreign policy vote. (CNN)
- 7 March - The Taliban claim that they have kidnapped Daniele Mastrogiacomo, an Italian journalist working for La Repubblica newspaper. (Washington Post)
- 10 March - Thousands of supporters of legislation giving equal rights on issues to heterosexual and gay couples in Italy attend a rally in Rome. (AP via the Houston Chronicle)
- 15 March - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta frees two Italian oilworkers that it took captive last year in Nigeria. (Reuters via CNN)
- 18 March - Cesare Battisti, convicted in absentia of two murders in Italy in the 1970s and who later became a crime writer in France, is arrested in Brazil. (Fox News)
- 19 March - Daniele Mastrogiacomo is set free by the Taliban. He had been kidnapped in the Afghan province of Helmand on March 6. (BBC)
- 13 August - Murder of Chiara Poggi[1]
- 11 November - Murder of Gabriele Sandri[2]
Literature
- The Italian, novel by Sebastiano Vassalli
- Manituana, novel by the writers' collective Wu Ming
- The Track of Sand, novel by Andrea Camilleri
Births
- 17 February – Tara Dragas, rhythmic gymnast
Deaths
- 26 January – Emanuele Luzzati, painter, production designer and animator (b. 1921).[3]
- 8 February – Adele Faccio, civil right activist (b. 1920).[4]
- 26 February – Angelo Arcidiacono, fencer (b. 1955).[5]
- 3 March –
- Osvaldo Cavandoli, cartoonist (b. 1920).[6]
- Benito Lorenzi, footballer (b. 1925).[7]
- 19 March – Giampaolo Calanchini, fencer (b. 1937).[8]
- 21 May – Bruno Mattei, film director, screenwriter and editor (b. 1931)[9]
- 23 July – Franco Cuomo, writer (b. 1938).[10]
- 24 July – Giorgio Anglesio, fencer (b. 1922).[11]
- 6 September – Luciano Pavarotti, operatic tenor (b. 1935).
- 21 September – Mauro Mellano, Italian economist and university professor.[12]
- 7 October – Luciana Frassati Gawronska, writer (b. 1902).[13]
- 2 December – Eleonora Rossi Drago, actress (b. 1925).[14]