Languages - Homepage: All you need to start learning a foreign language Farouk Kassam Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Il sequestro di Farouk Kassam è stato un caso di rapimento avvenuto in Italia nel 1992; vittima dell'atto criminale fu un bambino di 7 anni, Farouk Kassam, nato il 9 maggio 1984. L'ostaggio, di nazionalità libanese, naturalizzato belga, era figlio di Fateh Kassam, belga di origine indiana, gestore di un grande albergo della località turistica di Porto Cervo, in Sardegna. Il sequestro[modifica | modifica sorgente] Il sequestro avvenne il 15 gennaio 1992, nella villa dei genitori del bambino, a Porto Cervo. Farouk Kassam è stato liberato il 10 luglio dello stesso anno, in circostanze mai completamente chiarite e con la intermediazione di Graziano Mesina. Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica sorgente] Partita a tre - Il sequestro di Farouk Kassam, da La storia siamo noi
Boy free after kidnap ordeal - World - News Italian justice officials denied press speculation that the boy's family had paid around one-third of a pounds 3m ransom demanded by the kidnappers. The gang had let Farouk go as 300 police closed in on their mountain hideout, the officials insisted. But one of the country's most notorious convicted criminals, Graziano Mesina, 64 - dubbed 'The Scarlet Rose' - told reporters he had helped free the Canadian-born son of an Arab Belgian hotelier, but did not explain his role. The kidnappers had threatened to 'cut him (Farouk) up into little pieces, bit by bit' if his father, Ali Fateh Kassam, did not come up with the ransom. Mr Kassam's assets were said to have been frozen, in line with Italian law, to prevent him from dealing with the kidnappers. Farouk was seized in his pyjamas from his home on Sardinia's Emerald Coast on 15 January. Farouk's plight had gripped all of Italy. 'It's true. The scourge of Sardinia in the post-war years, Mesina later won a certain cult status.
Kidnappers Reportedly Cut Off Boy's Ear Jun. 19, 1992 4:56 PM ET CAGLIARI, SARDINIA CAGLIARI, Sardinia (AP) _ Kidnappers reportedly cut off an 8-year-old boy's earlobe to press their demands for a multimillion-dollar ransom, in a case that has enraged Italians and set off calls for a crackdown on kidnapping. Farouk Kassam, whose father owns a hotel, was kidnapped in January by masked bandits from the family villa near Olbia, a posh vacation area on Sardinia's northern coast. The kidnappers are demanding $8 million, according to press reports. A package containing an earlobe, a photo documenting the mutilation and a message to the family was sent to a priest earlier this week. The atrocity brought new appeals from public officials and church leaders in Sardinia and on the mainland for Sardinians to break the code of silence that often helps organized crime to act with impunity because of fear and intimidation. Mutilation has occurred in several kidnapping cases in Italy. J.
Anonima sequestri Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Anonima sequestri o anonima sarda è un'espressione giornalistica con la quale si identificano i collettivi delinquenziali responsabili di eventi delittuosi, soprattutto sequestri di persona, verificatisi in Sardegna, con una frequenza rilevante soprattutto a partire dagli anni sessanta del XX secolo e per alcuni decenni successivi. Cenni storici[modifica | modifica sorgente] La radice culturale che prelude alle origini delle bande identificate come Anonima Sequestri è il codice barbaricino, un regolamento di condotta e onore vigente nell'isola sin dal XIX Secolo la cui messa in atto ha fomentato la nascita dell'anonima sarda. Caratteristiche[modifica | modifica sorgente] Non si può quindi propriamente parlare di organizzazione criminale vista la mancanza di struttura e organizzazione interna, e per la totale indipendenza nella maggior parte degli episodi criminali tra loro. Territorio di attività[modifica | modifica sorgente] Codice barbaricino
Kidnap makes an ass of Italy's ransom law - News It has been a relief tinged with controversy, however, as the Italian state examines one of the most difficult kidnapping cases of recent years and the apparent failure of its idiosyncratic legislation to deal with the problem. In many ways, Mr Soffiantini's case is an illustration of how not to handle a kidnap. An attempt to rescue him back in October ended in a shoot- out in which one undercover agent was killed. Subsequent police searches through the brushland of southern Tuscany were sabotaged because someone in the police kept tipping off the media. Right up to the end, negotiations for Mr Soffiantini's release were hampered by the notoriously inefficient Italian post, which delivered ultimatums well after the deadlines laid down in them had passed. Most controversial of all has been an Italian law which bars the victim's family from paying any ransom. But in Mr Soffiantini's case, the mechanism broke down. Mr Soffiantini is not the first kidnap case to give rise to such problems.
Italy's Kidnapping Laws Criticized Feb. 5, 1998 2:18 AM ET ROME (AP) _ This is a tale of two slices of ear, a hostage with a weak heart and his family's bitter break with Italy's tough policy on kidnappings. The case of Giuseppe Soffiantini, a 62-year-old industrialist kidnapped in June, has stirred outrage against a 1990 law that freezes the assets of hostages and their families to prevent ransom payments. Law enforcement officials credit the law with a sharp drop in kidnappings, long a plague in Italy. But victims, their families and sympathetic lawmakers say it is wrong to put policy before lives. The debate has heated up since a slice of Soffiantini's right ear _ a mutilation pioneered in the 1973 kidnapping of J. ``I ask you to help me by broadcasting this cry of pain,'' he wrote, calling himself an ``innocent man condemned to death'' by the anti-kidnapping law. ``If the ransom isn't paid, I'll be killed,'' he said. In the next few days, startling details of the Soffiantini case emerged.
Child kidnapping suspense spurs `I'm Not Scared' April 23, 2004|By Robert K. Elder, Tribune staff reporter. Ten-year-old Filippo (Mattia Di Pierro) has been underground so long, he no longer opens his eyes. He can't. In fact, by the time village boy Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds Filippo in his underground prison--a pit under an abandoned house--Filippo mistakes him for an angel. Filippo, you see, thinks he's dead. A chilling tale of rural horror, Gabriele Salvatores' "I'm Not Scared" pulls its audience into the exact moment when childhood innocence shatters. The less you know going into "I'm Not Scared," the greater its impact, but it would not be giving too much away to say Salvatore deals with the moral territory linking poverty and the desperate act of kidnapping. The complicity of Michele's Sardinian village and family in such a dark crime confuses his loyalties, challenges his moral compass. Kidnappings such as Filippo's, unfortunately, are not historically uncommon in Sardinia, an island west of the Italian mainland.
Orgosolo Journal; Where Kings of the Mountains Are Kidnappers His hair had been cropped, he had acquired a fear of rats and part of his left ear had been sliced away. But when 8-year-old Farouk Kassam was freed by kidnappers last month after 177 days of captivity, not only his family rejoiced. For once, in a land where organized crime increasingly seems to know no restraint, the Italian police said they had demonstrated the power of the state over lawlessness. Yet almost immediately after the boy's release, questions and discrepancies began to intrude. Was it the authorities with their guns and tracker dogs, or, as most people here believe, was it Graziano Mesina, the "King of the Kidnappers"? The questions touch the core of mistrust that marks the relationship between Italians and the people who govern in their name. And they are much discussed in this village in the mountainous and poor Barbagia region of central Sardinia, far from Costa Smeralda to the north, where the wealthy take their evening strolls past yacht basins lined with boutiques.