Mimmo Lucano triumphs on the European Championships and returns mayor to Riace: “Salvini was flawed”

“A zero,” he had addressed him Matthew SalviniMinister of the Inside on the time. Mimmo Lucano below investigation with the defamatory accusation of getting constructed as mayor of Riace not a mannequin of reception however a legal system, helplessly he watched it crumble earlier than his eyes. Years have handed since then, a sentence branded these accusations as “completely groundless”. “Now the zeros to depend are a couple of extra”, replies Lucano, who yesterday additionally gained the municipal elections in his Riace, after the bitter defeat of 2019.

In half of Italy he collects greater than 188 thousand preferences, he who drove these accountable loopy Avs who have been attempting to place collectively an electoral marketing campaign as a result of he by no means had any intention of travelling an excessive amount of, he averted the levels “as a result of I wish to look individuals within the eye”, he did not even wish to hear about employees and press workplaces. He’s the primary of the Alliance’s elected representatives in Europe, greater than Ilaria Salisnevertheless candidate in two fewer constituencies.

We have fun it on social media, Riace fills up, he stays gloomy and tense for half a day. Cap with visor on his head, a black t-shirt with the phrases “Love music, hate fascism”, surrounded by his closest mates and collaborators. “I have not slept a wink since Sunday,” he says, now that he is lastly smiling. And sure, the outcomes have been already consolidated at daybreak, he was virtually mathematically elected. However that wasn’t the sport that was closest to his coronary heart, or quite not the one one. “If we do not repair this, we can’t repair Europe,” he repeated all through the electoral marketing campaign.

Right here, Riace, the place all of it started, the place all the pieces risked ending. The place he has now additionally returned as mayor. A victory that he looks like redemption. “It’s a very powerful, probably the most painful, it comes from a historical past of resistance”. 5 years in the past, the investigation overwhelmed him a couple of months earlier than the pure expiry of his mandate, it poisoned the electoral competitors instantly afterwards, Riace turned his again on him, Lucano ended up in opposition. Then got here the trial, a sentence virtually like a harmful robber, whereas the host city was emptying. “The sunshine got here again in October,” he says. The Courtroom of Attraction dropped all the fees, all that remained was an abuse of workplace so irrelevant as to deserve the suspension of the sentence. The explanations for that sentence a couple of months later dismantled the investigation piece by piece. “In Riace the one mission was to assist the least,” the judges wrote.

In Riace “the one mission was to assist the least”. The judges rehabilitate Mimmo Lucano and the welcoming city

by Alessia Candito

April 12, 2024

“Little by little issues received so as”, he remembers, who mentioned no to the Democratic Get together which courted him for months, however with Avs he determined to wage the battle for Brussels. And now comes a double victory, which can take him to Brussels after as soon as once more placing down agency roots in Riace. “I invite Salvini to come back again right here. He got here when he thought all the pieces was over, he was very flawed and we proved it to him.” A gauntlet. To Europe, he guarantees, he’ll carry “the story of this neighborhood which transmitted a message of humanity to the world and located a approach to withstand, to not die”. Just like the left in an more and more black Europe? “From the periphery of Italy and Europe comes the message that it’s doable, within the EU and on the earth”.