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Criminal records and pending proceedings, being inconsistent with the aim of social and occupational reintegration of the requested person, do not constitute factual elements capable of establishing the existence of a stable and non-temporary territorial integration in the State. The circumstances put forward by the person concerned — who, at the validation hearing, stated that he had been living in Italy for more than twenty years, that he had been cohabiting with his partner and her children for more than two years, and that he worked as a builder and gardener without a contract — amount to mere verbal assertions unsupported by evidence. The information derived from the fingerprint records can at most indicate the individual’s choice to identify the national territory as the center of his criminal activities, but not to prove effective integration, which, insofar as it is relevant for the recognition of the sentence for enforcement in Italy, implies adherence to socially shared values.