(AFP) A court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of a high-profile pro-migrant former mayor in populist-ruled Italy on charges he set up fake marriages to help asylum seekers stay in the country.
Domenico Lucano has been under house arrest since being apprehended in October and the court in the southern town of Locri adjourned the trial to June 17, media reported.
Tuesday’s initial hearing was given over to procedural matters, as is usual in the Italian justice system.
Lucano made a name for himself over the past two decades for welcoming migrants as mayor of his village of Riace, population 1,800, to counter a gradual decline of residents and workers.
