The final death count may yet top 300 with a handful of people unaccounted for and some hospitalised victims in a critical condition. The icing on the satirical image shows people squashed in the rubble with feet sticking out between the floors of a collapsed building with the sign reading “Lasagna”.
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Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano weighed into the row over Charlie Hebdo’s quake cartoons on Saturday (Sep 3) with an unusually undiplomatic outburst against the French satirical weekly.
“The drawings are repugnant”, said Italian Justice Minister Andrea Orlando, as furious reactions began flooding social media sites.
It was barking, coming from beneath the rubble of what a couple once called home.
The cartoon prompted a swift response in Italy and online.
“I’m sure it doesn’t correspond to the real sentiment of the French people”, Italian national news agency ANSA quoted the mayor as saying.
Pirozzi added irony is always welcome, but one should not satirize disasters.
In the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, a magnitude-6.8 temblor killed at least three people and damaged almost 100 ancient Buddhist pagodas.
The preeminent Italian architect and engineer Renzo Piano has been asked by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to help with reconstruction efforts in central Italy after last week’s 6.2-magnitude natural disaster devastated the region’s cultural heritage, the Guardian reports.
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“All this is disgusting”, said Italian President of Senate Pietro Grasso while the French embassy in Rome Friday clarified that the cartoon “does not absolutely represent the position of France”, according to RT. The quake has taken lives of at least 294 people.
