Italian court dismisses asylum claim where applicant failed to prove well-founded fear of persecution.

The Corte di Cassazione dismissed the asylum applicant's appeal, upholding the lower court's rejection of the claim. The applicant argued that specific threats in their home country constituted a well-founded fear of persecution, but the evidence presented was deemed insufficient to meet the legal threshold. The court ruled that without credible and specific proof of targeted danger, the statutory requirements for granting asylum were not satisfied.