ROME – The Italian town hardest hit by last month's earthquake has filed a criminal defamation complaint denouncing French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon depicting victims in ...

At issue is a cartoon in the paper’s current issue ... a special sauce made of tomatoes and guanciale ham. Consequently, restaurants in Italy and around the world have been donating proceeds ...

Mr Cicchetti told Italian news agency ANSA: “This is a macabre, senseless and inconceivable insult to victims of a natural event." Italians had reacted to the cartoons with anger, and social ...