The Court of Locri, in application of the Severino law, declared Mimmo Lucano as mayor of Riace fallen.
The sentence was filed today by the judges, who accepted the appeal presented to the civil court by the prefecture of Reggio Calabria later to the final sentence to 18 months in prison for false, with suspended sentenceimposed on Lucano in the context in the “Xenia” trial on the alleged illicit in the management of thereception of migrants in Riace. Lucano is European parliamentarian, elected with the Green and Left Alliance list.
Lucano: “The resistance continues: I will not stop”
“By now I am used to the idea that certain battles never end up fighting, because if you persist in carrying out a political project of equality, freedom, dignity and redemption of the last, you cannot expect the powers that impose the status quo let you make it achieve”. This is what wrote a little while ago on social media by Lucano.
The Court of Locri believed that the sentence for a fake in a municipal determination, which did not cause any damage of any kind, which was not perpetrated with abuse of power, for which the judges had excluded the application of the accessory penis (also because it is made in good faith) is sufficient to cause the forfeiture of my office as a mayor.
My only crime was to propose a human model of welcome and social, political, economic and moral growth, which completely overturns the xenophobic narrative launched by the right to swell fears and electoral consents.
The resistance continues: I will not stop. With my lawyers I will appeal against this unjust sentence, and I will remain mayor until the decision of the Court of Cassation, which are certainly fully legitimized the effects of the popular will.
The Victoria Siempre “
Oliverio: “Lucano’s decadence leaves estimated and incredulous”
«The decadence of Mimmo Lucano as mayor leaves extremes and incredulous. It proposes the absurdity of rules that are in clear contrast with the democratic and constitutional principles and an anachronistic judicial system “. This was stated in a note by the former president of the Calabria Region, Mario Oliverio. “Mimmo Lucano, after having undergone injustice and the devastating shots of a distorted judicial system; after years of ordeal, marked by precautionary measures and abnormal convictions, deleted by a motivated absolute sentence during the appeal – adds Oliverio – was re -elected mayor of Riace to Furor di Popolo. It is clear that the return of Mimmo Lucano is Relating of that reception project that has made the center of Locride an important point of reference internationally. Judgment that decides to cancel the will of the voters and to frustrate popular sovereignty. They will be able to cancel and obscure strength and limpidity ».