Franco Roberti
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Franco Roberti OMRI, MEP |
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Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy |
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Assumed office 2 July 2019 |
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Born | Naples, Italy |
16 November 1947
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Democratic Party |
Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
Profession | Magistrate |
Franco Roberti (born 16 November 1947) is an Italian magistrate and politician, member of the European Parliament since 2019.[1][2]
Biography
Career as prosecutor
Early in his career, Roberti worked as anti-mafia prosecutor in Naples. In 2007, he managed to arrest mafia boss Edoardo Contini, at the time considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives.[3]
Roberti served as National anti-mafia and anti-terrorist prosecutor from 2013 to 2017.[4] During his time in office, he led a 2016 effort of Italian, Colombian and U.S. police to seize 11 tonnes of cocaine and arrest 33 people from a mafia-linked ring which refined the drug in the jungles of Colombia and smuggled it out in containers of tropical fruits.[5] He also worked to ensure the mafia is blocked from playing any role in reconstruction after the August 2016 Central Italy earthquake that killed nearly 300 people.[6]
Member of the European Parliament
In 2019 Robert has been elected as a member of the European Parliament.[7] In the European Parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). In addition to his committees assignments, he is a member of the parliament's delegations for relations with the Mashreq countries and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. He is also a substitute member of several other EP committees, including LIBE (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs).
References
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- ↑ Laura Viggiano (December 15, 2007), Italian police arrest Naples mafia boss Reuters.
- ↑ https://www.democratica.com/focus/franco-roberti-capolista-sud-pd-europee/
- ↑ Philip Pullella (June 30, 2016), Italy, Colombia, U.S. seize 11 tonnes of cocaine, arrest 33 people Reuters.
- ↑ Josephine McKenna (August 28, 2016), Italy must block mafia from earthquake rebuild, says prosecutor The Guardian.
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