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Mayor Sala to Face City Council as Milan’s Urban Probe Intensifies

He must explain why prosecutors consolidated 74 insiders in a mega-investigation alleging planning offices served private developer interests

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Overview

  • Sala is set to report Monday on an inquiry that charges him with false statements and undue inducement linked to the Pirellino redevelopment
  • Urban regeneration assessor Giancarlo Tancredi offered to resign after prosecutors requested his house arrest over alleged pressure on the Commission for the Landscape
  • Councillors from Lega and Fratelli d’Italia staged a noisy occupation of the council chamber with resignation demands and symbolic moving boxes
  • The Partito Democratico’s city council group defended Sala’s integrity and insisted on respect for due process rather than automatic departures
  • Investigators seized computers, tablets, phones and documents to probe claims of a “shadow” planning apparatus favoring an elite circle of private developers