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2022 in Italy

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The following is a list of events during the year 2022 in Italy.

Economically, the country suffered the impact of a global inflation surge following the COVID-19 pandemic. Politically, in January President Sergio Mattarella was re-elected for a second term, and in February the Italian government responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a partner of the Atlantic alliance authorising weapons shipments to Ukraine. The country also experienced a government crisis, with subsequent elections, which brought in office the first female Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.

• President: Sergio Mattarella
• Prime Minister: Mario Draghi (until 22 October), Giorgia Meloni (from 22 October)

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Italy Ongoing – Protests over COVID-19 policies in Italy

• 1 January: Despite the public ban on not using New Year's barrels throughout Italy there were 14 seriously injured after the use of unauthorized fires.^[1]
• 3 January: A 40 year old woman drowns her son in the sea in Torre del Greco.^[2]
• 8 January: The Scala dei Turchi monument in Agrigento (Realmonte) is vandalized.^[3]
  • Serie A announces a closure of football stadiums that have a capacity of over 5,000 due to the spread of the Omicron variant.^[4]
• 13 January: The tenth anniversary of the sinking of the Costa Concordia in which 32 people died.^[5]
• 15 January: In Turin a man kills a little girl by knocking her off a balcony during a game.^[6]
• 16 January: In Naples there is a boom in electric bike sales in a single day 15 thousand models are sold.^[7]
• 17 January: Following the spread of the omicron variant, the Aosta Balley passed into the orange zone.^[8]
  • An egalitarian marriage committee is created to speed up the approval process for same sex marriage in Italy.^[9]
  • Naples appears to be the city that pays more attention to animals, 10 out of 9 stray dogs find a home.^[10]
• 19 January: A man from Viareggio suffering from psychological disorders barricades himself at home with his elderly father, will be arrested for attempted murder of a firefighter.^[11]
  • interior minister Luciana Lamorgese signs a security pact against crime and gomorrah in Naples.^[12]
• 20 January: a family from Syria and with serious physical problems will be taken to Italy where they will live in Siena and will be cared for by caritas.^[13]
  • the royal palace of Caserta celebrates 270 years of construction.^[14]
• 21 January: Work begins on the construction of the new Salerno airport which will be completed by 2024.^[15]
  • the historic Japanese cartoon Tiger Mask turns 40 years after its arrival in Italy.^[16]
  • the European court of human rights condemns Italy for having separated a mother from her daughter in the city of Brescia.^[17]
• 22 January: Silvio Berlusconi withdraws his candidacy a few days before the elections for the president of the republic.^[18]
  • inTaranto a man injures 2 officers who were chasing his car.^[19]
  • in Italy there is yet another death at work, it is an 18-year-old boy who worked as an interninUdine.^[20]
  • 23 people are arrested between Apulia and Calabria for participating in an international drug dealing from Turkey and the Netherlands.^[21]
  • Starbucks closes its stores in Milan, however the US chain announces that it has great news for Italy.^[22]
  • A few dozen people protest in Milan against vaccines and green passes.^[23]
• 23 January: in Brescia (Rezzato) there is a terrible accident between a car and a bus 5 young people die.^[24]
  • According to a survey, Milan is the most expensive city in Italy, spending 47% more than Naples. Naples, Palermo and Pescara are the cheapest cities.^[25]
• 24 January: 2022 Italian presidential election
  • following the spread of COVID-19 (omicron variant) the health minister Roberto Speranza has decided to sign an ordinance that puts Piedmont, Sicily and Friuli in the orange zone, while Apulia and Sardinia go yellow.^[26]
• 26 January: in Livorno a twelve-year-old is beaten and laughed at by a group of boys for being Jews, a fact that upset Patrizio Bianchi minister of education.^[27]
  • IPTV broadcasters were searched in the regions of Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, allowing free viewing of Sky channels, DAZN and films.^[28]
  • The financial police confiscate 50 smartphones and shut down an illegal service where Sky's paid service was broadcast completely free of charge.^[29]
• 28 January: in Ostia, a girl denounces her parents to the carabinieri following Islamic extremism against her by her family.^[30]
• 29 January: Sergio Mattarella is re-elected as President for a second term.^[31]
• 30 January: a fire in an apartment in Reggio Emilia kills 2 children.^[32]

• 1–5 February: The Sanremo Music Festival 2022 takes place in Sanremo.
• 1 February: Russian President Vladimir Putin telephones Prime Minister Mario Draghi for reassurance on gas supplies for Italy.^[33]
  • In the city of Agrigento a policeman kills his son with a service pistol.^[34]
  • InCagliari a newborn is hit by a hijacker in front of his mother, the man shows up at the barracks and is sentenced.^[35]
• 2 February: In Rome a group of activists vandalized the headquarters of the ministry of ecological transition.^[36]
  • InGrumo Nevano, Naples, a man strangles a 23-year-old woman to death, the man is arrested.^[37]
• 3 February: Sergio Mattarella is sworn in as President of Italy, starting his second term.^[38]
• 5 February: Milan is classified as a big European city, with a total of 20 skyscrapers.^[39]
  • US broadcaster CBS broadcasts the Inter-Milan derby in order to promote football in the United States. The match was broadcast live from San Siro.^[40]
• 8 February: Carabinieri control a Rom camp in Giugliano, Naples, finding ultra-light aircraft engines stolen the night before.^[41]
  • InComo an elderly woman who died 2 years earlier is found sitting on a chair in a complete state of decomposition, the woman is found by the police who had been called for investigations.^[42]
• 9 February: Following an investigation into corruption in Salerno, 5 people are arrested including the PM Roberto Penna.^[43]
• 11 February: Mount Etna erupts during the night.^[44]
• 15 February: A man from Rome finds a ticket, alleged to be from an African slave in China, in a COVID-19 mask, however, there is no evidence of the ticket's accuracy.^[45]
• 18 February: In Turin during a demonstration on the safety of young people on internships, a group of students attacks the confindustria using eggs against the police, seven injured are recorded.^[46]
  • A ship between Italy and Greece is damaged by a fire.^[47]
• 19 February: Protestors mainly consisting of university students and activists protest the Green Pass in Milan.^[48]
• 24 February: Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio condemn Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.^[49]
• 27 February: Following the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Mario Draghi announces that Italy aligns itself with the harsh sanctions of the European Union against Russia.^[50]
  • The Italian government closes its airspace to Russian planes.^[51]
• 28 February: The first Ukrainian refugees arrive in Italy mostly direct by bus to Trieste, Milan, Rome and Naples.^[52]
  • The Italian government sends weapons and equipment to Ukraine whilst Italian soldiers are positioned in Romania alongside other NATO forces.^[53]

• 1 March: Mario Draghi announces the reopening of the coal factories due to the ongoing gas crisis.^[54]
  • The 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Lady Oscar is commemorated ^[55]
  • The Italian embassy in Ukraine is moved from KyivtoLviv due to security reasons.^[56]
• 5 March: A demonstration against the war in Ukraine is held in Rome with over 50,000 people taking part, however some people demonstrate against NATO.^[57]
• 6 March: the police seize villas, yachts and luxury goods from the Russian oligarchs present in Italy following the economic sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.^[58]
• 7 March: Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the prices of wheat and gasoline rise throughout Italy and Europe.^[59]
• 12 March: Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio visits Angola and the Republic of the Congo to find new agreements on gas supplies in Italy.^[60]
• 16 March: In Vicenza, a 25-year-old man kills his parents to steal their money and investments.^[61]
  • Schools in Somma Vesuviana, Naples, welcome Ukrainian children who have escaped from the war.^[62]
• 17 March: The 161st Anniversary of Italian unification is commemorated.
• 24 March: The Italy national team remains out of the FIFA World Cup for the second consecutive time after Russia 2018. losing 1-0 in the playoff match against North MacedoniainPalermo.^[63]
• 29 March: Mario Draghi visits the city of Naples where he is met with protestors demonstrating against unemployment and COVID-19 vaccinations^[64]
• 30 March: Mario Draghi and Russian President Vladimir Putin discuss peace in Ukraine.^[65]
• 31 March: The state of emergency related to the on COVID-19 pandemic officially ends.^[66]
  • A storm in Palermo causes damage to buildings in the city.^[67]

• 1 April: A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Italy is presented for the first time in the Senate.^[68]
  • After a year the parliamentary commission closes the Denise Pipitone case, ending with no progress.^[69]
• 3 April: Bari Calcio returns to Serie B after 5 years.^[70]
• 5 April: Thirteen earthquakes are recorded in the Phlegraean fields.^[71]
• 11 April: after the sentence of 23 December, Catania Calcio was expelled from the Serie C championship, declaring total bankruptcy.^[72]
• 16 April: Mario Draghi and Maio's foreign minister travel to Angola for an agreement on the import of gas.^[73]
• 17 April: An attack in Piazza San Carlo near the Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Naples kills a 25-year-old man.^[74]
  • numerous attacks take place in Trieste and Trento, a 14-year-old boy is seriously injured by a stab.^[75]
• 18 April: during the Napoli-Roma football match, 91 cars are seized, 135 reports are made and 27 squatters are surprised.^[76]
• 21 April: foreign minister Luigi Di Maio signs an agreement for gas supplies to italy with the Republic of Congo.^[77]
• 24 April: for the first time in the history of Italian football, a team from Trentino Alto Adige lands in Serie B Is Südtirol.^[78]
  • Modena F.C returns to Serie B.^[79]
• 25 April: Liberation Day
  • A brawl between baby gangs in Naples, the problem of baby gangs grows in the main Italian cities, including Naples and Milan.^[80]
  • Crotone Calcio definitively collapses after having excited between Serie A and Serie B returns to Serie C 13 years later.^[81]
• 27 April: the Nola caritas welcomed around 120 Ukrainians who fled the war.^[82]
  • During the celebration of April 25, the secretary of the PD Enrico Letta is harshly contested by a group of the extreme left that calls for the exit of Italy from NATO.^[83]
• 28 April: a 60-year-old bartender from Pesaro is sentenced to 3 years in prison for pedophilia on a child.^[84]
  • Football prosecutor Mino Raiola is hospitalized urgently for a lung disease, rumors about his death begin to circulate and are immediately denied.^[85]
• 30 April: the cassation canceled the acquittal of Simone Pillon after 6 years the senator of the lega will return to trial for homophobic discrimination.^[86]
  • according to a former Russian minister, Russia is preparing an attack on the NATO countries and a target to hit would be in Aviano (Pordenone).^[87]
  • After 2 days of speculation, the death of Mino Raiola is officially announced by the prosecutor's family.^[88]

• 1 May: the government removes major restrictions against covid except masks.^[89]
  • some owners of a fishmonger are attacked by a bunch of boys, while they were opening the fishmonger in Naples.^[90]
  • Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov threatens Italy to be in the front row against Russia.^[91]
• 2 May: The Roman group Måneskin join the spotify Billions club.^[92]
• 4 May: A woman from Macerata is brutally beaten by her husband after discovering her divorce intentions after discovering she is a lesbian.^[93]
  • Postal police and Save the Children recommend greater attention to online games, as pedophile victims have risen to 47% across Italy.^[94]
  • InSomma Vesuviana car thefts occur, the carabinieri arrest 2 people.^[95]
• 5 May: In Milan, a 90-year-old woman is robbed by thieves who had promoted to help her with an ATM.^[96]
  • Roma becomes the first Italian team to reach the UEFA Conference League final.^[97]
• 6 May: Cremonese returns to Serie A after 26 years.^[98]
  • Lecce returns to Serie A after 2 Years.^[99]
• 7 May: Dimitri Roveri, a provincial footballer of the Mantova 1911 team, dies on the pitch following a cardiac arrest.^[100]
  • The dead body of a boy is found in Milan.^[101]
  • a Labrador dog farm in the city of Sessa Aurunca is closed as illegal.^[102]
• 8 May: A man from Somma Vesuviana manages to escape from a robbery attempt while thieves shoot his car at him.^[103]
  • In the city of Alessandria a lesbian woman is beaten and sent to the emergency room.^[104]
  • San Donato Tavarnelle arrives in Serie C for the first time. Its promotion confirms the best period of the provincial teams since 2010.^[105]
• 10–14 May: Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is held in Turin, and won by Ukrainian folk rap group Kalush Orchestra with the song Stefania.
• 10 May: A drug dealer from Rome escapes on a scooter after being chased by the police, the man will be arrested inside a McDonald's.^[106]
• 11 May: 2021–22 Coppa Italia final Inter-Juventus. Inter win 2-4
• 13 May: Milan becomes the first city in Italy to use the QR Code in restaurants that allows you to pay the bill without waiting.^[107]
• 14 May: in a retirement home in San Vitaliano (Naples) gave expired drugs to the elderly.^[108]
  • The Filadelfia Stadium in Turin is reopened.^[109]
• 15 May: 2 boys are stabbed while walking in the maritime area of Naples.^[110]
  • After 15 years of Serie A, Genoa were relegated to Serie B.^[111]
• 16 May: Rome is put on red alert zone for swine fever spread because of boars.^[112]
  • In the town of Brusciano (Naples) are arrested 17 representatives from groups linked to gomorra.^[113]
• 17 May: Milan proclaims area of freedom for LGBT people, without proper legal procedures also it recognizes the sex change of trans people.^[114]
• 20 May: monkeypox arrives in Italy.^[115]
• 22 May: Milan wins Serie A after 11 years.^[116]
  • Salernitana becomes the first team not to be relegated to Serie B with 31 points.^[117]
• 23 May: 30 years after the Capaci massacre where the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone was killed.^[118]
  • first hospitalization for monkeypox in Arezzo.^[119]
• 24 May: The police seize an orange truck containing drugs in Turin, the 2 drivers are arrested.^[120]
  • The first positive cases of monkeypoxinLombardy.^[121]
• 29 May: a shooting takes place in the city of Qualiano (Naples).^[122]
• 30 May: In a school in Bergamo, a cylinder explodes and 5 children are burned.^[123]
  • 2 sisters are scarred with acid in Naples.^[124]

• 3 June: The first municipality to approve the gender register is Milan.^[125]
• 10 June: The case of Chievo Verona which could return to Serie B is reopened.^[126]
• 18 June: In Catania, an 11-year-old girl is killed by her mother.^[127]
• 21 June: The political party Movimento 5 stelle splits following the farewell of Luigi Di Maio who will form a new party, the rift should not trigger a government crisis according to experts.^[128]
• 23–24 June: Written test of the final exams.
• 27 June: After the Caserta pride, homophobic writings and homophobic attacks were recorded.^[129]

• 3 July: 2022 Marmolada serac collapse
• 3–6 July: Olympics of the real Neapolitan pizza.^[130]
• 8 July: A storm strikes Naples, creating a lot of inconvenience and damage even in the provinces.^[131]
  • Teramo Calcio and Campobasso Calcio are excluded from Serie C 2022-23.^[132]
• 11 July: First convictions for the attacks on the CGIL in the autumn, all Forza Nuova participants are sentenced to 6 years in prison, except the 2 leaders who are sentenced to house arrest.^[133]
• 13 July: In Lecce, the gender register for Trans and non-binary people is approved, it is the second Italian municipality to do so.^[134]
  • The Catania football team is re-founded and will restart from Serie D.^[135]
• 14 July: the 2022 Italian government crisis of the Draghi Cabinet begins.^[136]
• 16 July: The West Nile virus returns to Italy, the first cases in Veneto and Emilia Romagna, one death registered.^[137]
• 20 July: The senate votes for 95 of the senators in favor of the trust in Mario Draghi who is rejected.^[138]
• 21 July: Prime Minister Mario Draghi announces his resignation while President Sergio Mattarella dissolves the chambers and establishes new elections.^[138]

• 9 August: Domino's Pizza announces it is pulling out of the Italian market after seven years.^[139]

• 6 September: the case of Angela Celentano reopens.^[140]
• 9 September: Controversial on the cartoon Peppa Pig for a lesbian couple by Brothers of Italy, the episode was also broadcast by RAI.^[141]
• 15–16 September: 2022 Marche flood
• 25 September: 2022 Italian general election
• 26 September: The students of the Manzoni high school in Milan occupy the building in protest against Meloni's victory.^[142]

• 13 October: Ignazio La Russa becomes the President of the Senate of the Republic.^[143] He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate, the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.^[144]
• 14 October: Ultraconservative Lorenzo Fontana becomes the President of the Chamber of Deputies since 14 October 2022.^[145]
• 19 October: Volleyball player Paola Egonu decides to leave the Italian national team after various racist insults.^[146]
• 20 October: In Naples, the NAS^{[clarification needed]} close the pizzeria that invented the pizza Margherita (in 1889) due to poor cleaning.^[147]
  • The Salerno police and the financial police arrest a drug dealer who was selling drugs on the seafront.^[148]
• 21 October: Giorgia Meloni receives the task of forming a new government from President Sergio Mattarella, She become first female prime minister in Italian history.^[149]
  • Anillegal immigrant from the Gambia who had been selling drugs for six years in Salerno is arrested and repatriated.^[150]
  • Six people are put under house arrest after stealing fish from Salerno markets.^[151]
• 22 October: The Meloni Cabinet becomes operational. It was variously described as a shift to the political right,^[152] as well as the first far-right-led coalition in Italy since World War II.^[153][154]
• 27 October: A man stabs five people including the Monza Calcio player Pablo Marì in the city of Assago (Milan).^[155]
• 27–29 October: The 100th year anniversary of the March on Rome.
  • Thousands of supporters of Benito Mussolini parade.^[156][157]

• 16 November: Italy is officially a candidate to host Euro 2032^[158]
• 26 November: 2022 Ischia landslide

• 7 December: in Verona 13 people from groups linked to the fascist extreme right attack a group of Moroccan families who were celebrating Morocco's victory over Spain with sticks and iron chains. ^[159]
• 22 December: Denise Pipitone case, Former prosecutor Maria Angioni is arrested for making false claims about the investigation to find the girl who disappeared 18 years ago.^[160]

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