Now in its 115th edition and set in Pontasserchio in the Parco della Pace
it is made with tent structures that accommodate companies in pavilions divided into “islands” and lanes divided by type
Agrifiera promotes the agricultural sector with a special orientation towards the enhancement of the territory
the authenticity of food and wine products
There is no shortage of appointments: robots that operate in agriculture
in addition to the traditional educational workshops for children
the zootechnics spaces and the remake of a medieval village
the passage of ultra-light aircraft in formation with the Italian tricolor
musical evenings and the presence of street food
which stops in Piazza Metastasio (La Fontina) and Via Verri (San Giuliano Terme middle school) from 10:00 to 14:00 every hour and from 14:00 to 20:00 every half hour
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who allegedly spent church funds on parties and escorts
An Italian former priest dubbed “Don Euro” by his parishioners because he kept pestering them for money has been jailed for extorting a former bishop
Luca Morini served as a priest in the Tuscan village of Pontasserchio before being defrocked by the Vatican amid a series of scandals
culminating with a court in Massa Carrara sentencing him on Wednesday to seven and a half years in prison for extortion
He was also convicted of assuming a false identity after masquerading as a judge when hiring male sex workers but acquitted on charges of extorting a nun
Morini was reportedly considered “a good-natured priest” when he first arrived in Pontasserchio
a village of about 2,600 inhabitants close to Pisa
But he soon earned the nickname Don Euro after persuading his mostly elderly parishioners to donate generously to the church’s collection plate
with the money allegedly being splurged on parties
luxury holidays with sex workers and visits to swingers’ clubs
Legal investigations into his shenanigans only began in 2015 after one of the sex workers blew the whistle on him and his lavish spending
revealing that Morini had posed as a judge
and after he was exposed by the TV show Le Iene
brought a case against Morini for false identity and were awarded €14,000 (£12,000) in compensation by the court
Morini’s parishioners claimed to Le Iene that he was always pestering them for money
although they never officially reported him
Morini’s conviction for extortion related to Giovanni Santucci
Santucci had suspended Morini from priest duties and was allegedly blackmailed into loaning him thousands of euros and buying him a €200,000 house
Prosecutors had asked for a prison term of eight and a half years
but Morini’s defence team argued that he was suffering from mental illness and his sentence was reduced
Morini’s conviction comes two months after a court in the Tuscan city of Prato handed a jail term of three years and four months to a parish priest who was found guilty of stealing money from his church’s offertory and using it to buy drugs for sex parties.