February 23: unknown persons pour millions of liters of hydrocarbons into the Lambro river causing an environmental disaster that involved the valley of the river itself and the
Po, in
Lombardy and
Emilia-Romagna.
April: The
AppsBuilder project is initiated by Daniele Pelleri and Luigi Giglio in Milan.[3]
May 1:
Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform Legion of Christ (LC), whose Mexican founder,
Marcial Maciel, abused children before being dismissed in 2006.