Difference between revisions of "Italy"

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**[http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=325120 Shanghai Daily: Italy creates national DNA database to enhance anti-terror fight (26th March 2016)]
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**[http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/italy-sets-up-dna-database-says-its-key-for-national-security_446531.html Europe Online Magazine: Italy sets up DNA database, says it's key for national security (25th March 2016)]
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**[http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2016/03/24/italy-to-get-dna-database_3c7726ce-fa99-406f-88b2-227cfee02121.html ANSA: Italy to get DNA database (24th March 2016)]
 
**[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/world/europe/in-search-for-killer-dna-sweep-exposes-intimate-family-secrets-in-italy.html New York Times: In Search for Killer, DNA Sweep Exposes Intimate Family Secrets in Italy (26th July 2014)]
 
**[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/world/europe/in-search-for-killer-dna-sweep-exposes-intimate-family-secrets-in-italy.html New York Times: In Search for Killer, DNA Sweep Exposes Intimate Family Secrets in Italy (26th July 2014)]
 
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24534110 BBC: Kercher trial: How does DNA contamination occur? (30th January 2014)]
 
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24534110 BBC: Kercher trial: How does DNA contamination occur? (30th January 2014)]

Revision as of 10:23, 7 April 2016

According to Interpol, a DNA database is planned in Italy. Italy passed DNA database legislation for convicted offenders in June 2009. Suspects can be profiled when requested by a judge. Innocent people's DNA profiles are supposed to be deleted from the database and their samples destroyed.

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It is unclear to what extent Italy has implemented its legislation. The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes' 2013 report records no DNA profiles stored on the database.

The use of DNA evidence in court has come under intense media scrutiny in the trials of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007.

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