(Rome) Rome’s former mayor in Calabria, Dominico Lugano – who was once an iconic figure in the reception and integration of immigrants in Italy – has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison.
On the left, Dominico Lugano was arrested in the fall of 2018 and placed under house arrest with the intention of welcoming immigrants to his populated village in Calabria since 2000 and reviving development and jobs.
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Details of the sentence announced Thursday by the Logri court to the press have not yet been released. But Mr Lugano was accused of arranging comfortable marriages, especially to help women who are denied asylum rights to stay in Italy.
He was criticized for calling for tenders to manage garbage in his village of 1,800 people and for allocating it to cooperatives associated with immigrants.
His lawyers announced that they would appeal the case first, emphasizing that the former mayor had not received any economic benefits in the case.
Riaz’s commune has been funded for many years by European and Italian funds.
According to Italian media, Dominico Lugano has ordered the refund of 500,000 euros in European funds.
Prosecutors have sentenced a former city council member to nearly eight years in prison after he said he was shocked by the harsher sentence announced Thursday. “I expected to be released. I will be marked forever by the deeds I do not do,” he replied.
In 2010 he was named the third “best mayor in the world” and one of the magazine’s 100 most influential people. Good luck In 2016, Mr. Wim Venders and a documentary-fiction film from a television movie were released. Lucano encouraged.
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