Riace, Italy – The cobbled street leading to an arched passage known as the “water gate”, one of the entrances to the hilltop hamlet of Riace, is as quiet as the valley it overlooks. Inside the ancient walls, shops are shut and homes are up for sale. “Normality clashes with a world intoxicated with hatred and prejudice,” said Riace’s former mayor, Domenico Lucano, speaking to Al Jazeera by phone from Caulonia, another small town on southern Italy’s Ionic coast. Accused of aiding undocumented migration, Lucano has found refuge there since he was banned from living in his native village in mid-October. “Riace has been destroyed,” he said in his typically emotional manner. Lucano became Riace’s mayor in 2004 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2014. His idea of reviving the dying village’s economy by hosting refugees in homes left empty by Italians who had migrated abroad attracted international spotlight. The Prosecutor’s Office of Locri in Calabria announced on October 2, 2018 the arrest of Lucano, the mayor of Riace, a small village that has been hosting migrants and asylum seekers for years, on the grounds of suspected aid to undocumented immigration [Mario Laporta/AFP] Bayram, a 52-year-old from a Kurdish village… Read full this story
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