(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 12 – The supreme Court of Cassation on Wednesday upheld a suspended 18-month prison term against Italian MEP Mimmo Lucano, the mayor of the Calabrian town of Riace, for making false declarations in public acts, making the sentence definitive.
The supreme court also rejected an appeal by prosecutors against the acquittal of Lucano, who earned fame for integrating migrants and repopulating the location according to the ‘Riace Model’, on other charges, including the crime of fraud against the State.
Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Lucano, 66, settled 450 refugees in Riace, a town of 1,800 inhabitants, revitalising it and preventing the closure of the local school.
He came second in the 2010 World Mayor Competition and was named 40th in a Fortune poll of the world’s greatest leaders in 2016.
Lucano had initially been charged with arranging marriages for citizenship but that charge was subsequently struck down.
However, he was convicted by a first instance court of a series of felonies over the management of migrants and asylum seekers and initially sentenced to 13 years, two months in jail in 2021 An appeals court struck down nearly all those charges in 2023.
Lucano served as Riace mayor from 2004 to 2018 and was re-elected its first citizen last year, when also won a seat for the Green-Left Alliance in the European elections. (ANSA).
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The supreme court also rejected an appeal by prosecutors against the acquittal of Lucano, who earned fame for integrating migrants and repopulating the location according to the ‘Riace Model’, on other charges, including the crime of fraud against the State.
Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Lucano, 66, settled 450 refugees in Riace, a town of 1,800 inhabitants, revitalising it and preventing the closure of the local school.
He came second in the 2010 World Mayor Competition and was named 40th in a Fortune poll of the world’s greatest leaders in 2016.
Lucano had initially been charged with arranging marriages for citizenship but that charge was subsequently struck down.
However, he was convicted by a first instance court of a series of felonies over the management of migrants and asylum seekers and initially sentenced to 13 years, two months in jail in 2021 An appeals court struck down nearly all those charges in 2023.
Lucano served as Riace mayor from 2004 to 2018 and was re-elected its first citizen last year, when also won a seat for the Green-Left Alliance in the European elections. (ANSA).
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