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Crime

Pro-migrant Italian mayor’s trial adjourned

June 11, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Government & Politics

How Italy’s migrant model town Riace veered far-right

June 7, 2019 Kelly Velasquez  

(AFP) The sign reading “Riace, land of welcome” still hangs in the small town, but its dream of migrant integration is over after the far-right’s “Italians first” election victory. The new mayor of the one-time “global village” in southern Italy’s rural Calabria […]

Crime

Pro-migrant Italian mayor charged with setting up fake marriages

April 11, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) A high-profile pro-migrant mayor in populist-ruled Italy was ordered Thursday to face court over charges he set up fake marriages to help foreign women stay in the country after their asylum applications were rejected. Domenico Lucano, under house arrest after being […]

Government & Politics

Italy’s model migrant town struggles to survive

October 18, 2018 Franck Iovene  

(AFP) The artisan shops in Riace’s historic centre are shuttered and its alleyways quiet as locals wait to see what will happen to Italy’s world-renowned model of migrant integration. The mayor of the hilltop hamlet in Calabria was hounded out of town […]

Government & Politics

Outrage over far-right ‘war’ on Italy migrant town

October 14, 2018 Ella Ide  

(AFP) Anger in Italy grew Sunday over an interior ministry order to transfer all migrants out of a town at the centre of a national debate on the integration of asylum-seekers. The ministry has said all migrants must leave the Calabrian town […]

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Italy shutters tiny town’s landmark migrant model

October 13, 2018 Unlisted Author  

(AFP) Italy’s interior ministry ordered Saturday that all migrants be transferred out of a tiny southern town that had welcomed them but which triggered a national debate on integration after its mayor was arrested. Domenico Lucano, the left-leaning mayor of Riace, made […]

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