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...Tuesday a Rome court ordered a trial for two men arrested in July 2007 outside the Coliseum. Michele F., 36, and Roberto L., 28, contend they were caught sharing a passionate kiss; the arresting officers from the carabinieri say they were engaging in oral sex. Defense lawyers have asked for the charges of lewd public acts to be dropped, having sought in vain to get access to footage from nearby security cameras that they say would show the kiss was just a kiss...
Nonetheless, even with equipment that could have come from an episode of CSI, Europe's art police can recover only a fraction of what goes missing. Italy's Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale - considered the world's best art squad - employs nearly 300 officers (versus about 30 in France and six in Britain), along with a pool of informants, undercover agents and experts. It also has the largest database, holding information on 2.6 million missing artworks. Still, the carabinieri's recovery rate is only 10%, at best...
...past Olympic standards, like a small patch of bad ice. But by late afternoon on Feb. 16 - unbeknownst to the athletes, the trainers and the worldwide TV audience - major trouble was brewing in Torino. A hurried closed-door meeting was under way at the local command center of the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police, that would lead to the one big black mark of the 20th Winter Games: a spiraling doping drama featuring a suicidal Austrian coach, a crusading Italian magistrate and an unprecedented nighttime police raid - all of which could change the way that future Olympics fight...
...That was enough to get a green light from Guariniello. So Agovino ordered 20 Carabinieri agents, including two linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes...
...says somberly. Since then, police in France and Italy have traced the works back to America, but there the trail went cold. They declined to provide any details of their investigation. "It's a bit of a mystery," an investigator for the cultural heritage protection division of Italy's Carabinieri police force says. Over the past two years, the foundation had hoped the missing works would be found, eliminating the need to make the theft public. If the Burri collection was stolen, as police believe, it represents one of the biggest heists of Italian art in years. Around the world...