Letter from Massimo Passamani, who has been in preventive prison for over four months in the Trento, Italy prosecution’s “Operation Ixodidae” targeting persons in the NO TAV movement which is resisting the construction of the high-speed train infrastructure through Italy, especially in the Susa Valley.
from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:
Rovereto, December 5, 2012
A Fact
Reflections on repression, solidarity and the NO TAV movement
November 29, 2012. Another wave of arrests and repressive measures against the NO TAV movement. Certainly, it cannot be said that the Ministry of the Interior is sleeping. The different Prosecutors keep taking arrest warrants out of the oven, which the judges accept or, if not, restructure in number and form, but almost never leaving the judges empty-handed. Today one ends up in prison or under house arrest under charges for which in the past one would have undergone trial in freedom. The reason is not fortuitous and has nothing to do with judicial questions. Continue reading →