Carmelo Abbate (born 5 August 1971 in

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, Italy) is an Italian journalist and reporter.

Biography

He works for the Italian weekly magazine ''Panorama'', where he began as a collaborator and today he serves as

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, in the past he has held the same job for the cultural section of the magazine. As an undercover reporter he conducted several major investigations, in particular with regard to social and economic topics, illegal immigration and catholic church scandals such as homosexuality in the Catholic Church, or Catholic priests involved in

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. A CNN report including an interview with Carmelo Abbate
/ref> His book ''Sex and the Vatican: a secret journey in the reign of the chaste'' was ignored by most of the mainstream Italian media, but instead became a bestseller in France. Nel 2018 lancia "Storie Nere", an exceptionally highly attractive editorial format on its social channels, in which it reacts briefly with specific narrative stresses, story of cronaca nera riguardante sia la gente comune that famous characters.

Publications

*''La Trappola'', Milano, Piemme, 2008 *''L'onorata società: caste e baroni dell'Italia che lavora'', Milano, Piemme, 2009 *''Babilonia'', Milano, Piemme, 2010 *''Sex and the Vatican: viaggio segreto nel regno dei casti'', Milano, Piemme, 2011 *''Golgota: viaggio segreto tra chiesa e pedofilia'', Milano, Piemme, 2012

References

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