How Italy's migrant model town Riace veered far-right The small village of Riace in southern Italy has gone from being a model for the integration of immigrants to being the emblem of Matteo Salvini's far right with the promise of the "Italians First". Former mayor Domenico "Mimmo" Lucano encouraged migrants and refugees to come to the village to counter a gradual decline of inhabitants and workers and show how migrant integration could be done. But now he is no longer even a member of the town council after his left-backed list lost in the elections, and he has been barred from the town. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES