Ticino councillors want to take Il Caffè offline

 The petition committee of the Ticino Grand Council is demanding that the homepage of the Sunday newspaper Il Caffè be blocked. Last weekend, the paper had quoted from secret minutes of meetings and then posted them on the Internet. The case was forwarded to the public prosecutor's office for investigation. According to a communiqué issued by the Commission on Monday, there has been a breach of official secrecy and violations of the Data Protection Act. The published minutes reflected a discussion about naturalization applications. This was controversial because some of the petitioners apparently had criminal records.
The Sunday newspaper Il Caffè is published by Ringier and Rezzonico Editore. It plans to launch the online free newspaper Caffè quotidiano in March (see
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