Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Curfew hits Rome as increase in wild boar attacks

According to residents in several neighborhoods, people living in Rome began imposing curfews Tuesday after a growing number of encounters with wild boars. Community leaders in the northern part of the Italian capital are warning people against wandering the streets late at night because of several recent attacks by aggressive wild animals. One man in the … Read more

Romans had enough invasion of wild boars in the city

Over the years, Gauls, Visigoths, and criminals have attacked Rome, but the Eternal City is now facing a raiding force of a new kind: garbage-eating wild boars. Entire families of wild boars have become a common sight in Rome, as groups of ten to thirty young and elderly creatures emerge from the city’s enormous parks … Read more