(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 11 - Ex Riace mayor and integration hero
Mimmo Lucano said after an appeals court slashed his sentence
for alleged immigration irregularities from over 13 years to a
suspended 18 months that it had been he end of a nightmare that
had brought him down.
"It is the end of a nightmare that over the years has brought me
down so much, humiliated me, offended me. It is the end of a
nightmare that for years, unjustly, made me look like a
delinquent in the eyes of the people," he said.
Lucano has been attacked, denigrated, and accused, even
politically and not only, therefore, judicially, of destroying
the 'Riace model', the extraordinary opportunity created to
welcome hundreds of people who were in need and to revive and
repopulate the centres of Calabria.
"At this point I hope that even (state broadcaster) RAI will
change its mind and air the famous series filmed with (showman
and actor) Fiorello in Riace". (ANSA).
End of nightmare that brought me down says Lucano
For years unfairly depicted as criminal says ex-Riace mayor