A unit of crack Italian troops due to take part in a Nato exercise `invaded' the wrong country. Their plane should have touched down in Kristiansand, Norway, last Thursday but for reasons that remain mysterious touched down instead in Kristianstad, Sweden, hundreds of miles away. It was only when the 116 Alpini, complete with jaunty William Tell felt caps from which protrude a long black turkey feather, flounced off the plane - Italian soldiers don't march - and began to queue at passport control that they realised they were in the wrong country.
Italians have been known to get it wrong too.