1. Giovanni "Gianni" Alemanno was born on 3 March 1958 and is an Italian politician who from April 2008 until June 2013 was mayor of Rome for The People of Freedom.
15 Facts About Gianni Alemanno
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Gianni Alemanno was the secretary of the National Movement for Sovereignty from 2017 to 2019.
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The second time was in 1982, when Gianni Alemanno was accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Soviet Union embassy.
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Gianni Alemanno became national secretary of the youth organization of the party in 1988.
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Between 2001 and 2006, Gianni Alemanno was Minister of Agriculture under Silvio Berlusconi.
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Gianni Alemanno stated that the couple had been "very careless" by camping in an area "forgotten by God and man" where camping was illegal.
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Gianni Alemanno said that the attack was an isolated case, and repeated that he wanted to crack down on crime, regaining total control of the territory.
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In November 2008, Gianni Alemanno decided to build a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust in a Roman park.
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Gianni Alemanno is the son-in-law of Pino Rauti, a former leader of the Italian Social Movement.
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Gianni Alemanno always wears a necklace with a Celtic cross.
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Gianni Alemanno stated he wears it only as a religious symbol and because of a personal meaning for him, being a jewel worn by his friend Paolo di Nella, a far-right militant who had been killed during the 1970s Anni di Piombo.
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In February 2009 Gianni Alemanno conferred honorary citizenship to Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
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In July 2009, Gianni Alemanno conferred honorary citizenship to captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
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In late 2014, Gianni Alemanno was investigated in the 2014 Rome corruption scandal, involving an external cooperation in a mafia association.
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In February 2019 Gianni Alemanno was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption and illicit financing in the Mafia Capitale trial.