National scandal erupts after news that Italy’s only Black MP is being investigated for fraud and migrant abuse
Italian pro-migration MP Aboubakar Soumahoro, who had been heralded as a potential leader of Italy’s leftist coalition, has resigned in disgrace from his parliamentary group, the Alliance of the Greens and the Left (Alleanza Verdi Sinistra), due to ongoing investigations against his wife and mother-in-law for tax fraud and mistreatment of migrants.
Despite initial claims from Soumahoro that he knew nothing of what was going on in at the migrant centers, witnesses have come forward to be interviewed on the Italian television program “Non è l’arena,” which ran a broadcast Sunday evening covering the scandal.
The news report indicates that the situation at the centers was “serious,” with one worker there saying,
“Sometimes there was no hot water, the radiators didn’t work, and there was no gas.” He also added that Soumahoro “knew very well everything that was happening, he knows all about the situation of each house.”
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