Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Italian mayor under house arrest for helping migrants
A mayor in Italy has been put under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal migrants.
Domenico Lucano was placed under home confinement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prosecutors said.
The 60-year-old is the mayor of Riace, a town in southern Italy's poor Calabria region.
A statement said Mr Lucano had organised arranged marriages with "particular ruthlessness" between locals and immigrant women, and had set up "simple yet efficient" systems aimed at bypassing rules for migrants to be granted entrance to Italy.
He would have approved of this.
A mayor in Italy has been put under house arrest for allegedly helping illegal migrants.
Domenico Lucano was placed under home confinement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, prosecutors said.
The 60-year-old is the mayor of Riace, a town in southern Italy's poor Calabria region.
A statement said Mr Lucano had organised arranged marriages with "particular ruthlessness" between locals and immigrant women, and had set up "simple yet efficient" systems aimed at bypassing rules for migrants to be granted entrance to Italy.
He would have approved of this.