Overview
- Corrado Cuccurullo quit hours after Tuesday’s demolition ceremony at Palazzo Fienga, where Prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso said the administration still shows links to organized crime.
- Fragliasso told the crowd he sees “too many shadows,” including alleged ties to clans and illegal acts inside the municipality.
- The resignation takes legal effect after 20 days, which keeps Cuccurullo in office briefly as procedures unfold.
- A proposal to dissolve the administration for mafia infiltration is pending on a report by an access commission, a step that could return the city to prefect-run control.
- Cuccurullo, elected in June 2024 after a 2022 dissolution and two years under commissioners, defended work to boost municipal police, expand cameras, clear illegal occupiers, and assign seized assets to the nonprofit Agrorinasce.