{"id":715,"date":"2011-05-04T18:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:38:26","slug":"italy-repressive-operation-targeting-anarchists-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Repressive operation targeting anarchists in Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following communiques from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informa-azione.info\/firenze_operazione_repressiva_contro_compagni_anarchici_arresti_e_perquisizioni\">informa-azione<\/a> concern the recent searches and arrests targeting 78 anarchists in Florence, 22 of whom are being charged with subversive association in relation to incitement of a whole series of crimes: numerous and repeated acts of damage, defacement and destruction to ATMs, video surveillance systems, party headquarters, trade unions, and other institutions; illegal occupations of properties; resisting, assaulting and insulting police officers; blockades interrupting road and railway traffic; and violence&#8230; roughly translated by War on Society (5\/4\/2011):<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><del><\/del><\/em><!--more-->Florence &#8211; Repressive operation on anarchists [arrests and searches]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around  6 am the homes of various comrades active in Florence have  been invaded by the agents of repression to implement a new stage in  the attack on Anarchy. As recently took  place in Bologna, as in this case, the instrument used to strike and arrest the comrades, is the crime of conspiracy. From  what we can learn from the diffuse tissues of the state media, this  time it would take a new declination: If the prosecution for his fellow  Bolognese was initially a &#8220;criminal association with subversive  purposes,&#8221; this time it would, with a strange spin, of  &#8220;conspiracy to incitement to commit a crime,&#8221; supported by specific  crimes such as illegal occupation of public buildings; damage,  disfigurement, and contamination of real property; resistance, violence  and insulting a public official; interruption of public service and  private violence.<\/p>\n<p>Note how this  attack on the anarchist movement and students in Florence, in addition to  having obvious promoters in local administration, has involved the  central apparatus of repression Italian as explained in this excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The measures were carried out by the Digos and coordinated by the<br \/>\nCentral Directorate of Police Prevention (Ucigos). [&#8230;] The survey also contributed<br \/>\nSecret Service (AISI) with their information support. &#8220;[Ansa.it]<\/p>\n<p>To combine  specific minor criminal offenses and bring them together under the  hat of the crime of association appears to be a strategy administered at the national level, directly involving the nerve centers  of repression, to undermine the reality of conflict, dissent and  counter-information in the different cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Attacks  of this kind reveal the fear that it instills in Democratic Power, in  observing how certain practices and certain relationships that are reproducible and  multiplicatable may disturb the rituals and forms with which Power tries to conceal  the reality of oppression and violence.<\/p>\n<p><em>In solidarity with the Florence comrades<\/em><br \/>\n<em>informa-azione<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>We collect the following reflections and announcements about what is happening in Florence:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Da La Riottosa<\/strong> <em>(&#8220;The Riotous&#8221; &#8211; transl.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At  the end of the operation (devoid of outcome, needless to say?) the comrade who  was sleeping in the trailer was brought to his home address to  another search warrant, then he is notified of the obligation to sign. We  learn that this is one of the 24 measures imposed by the court in an  investigation involving several members of the student movement in  Florence under Article 416 (criminal conspiracy), who evidently yet  another intimidation in the past months  was opposed to this deadly climate, of course (prophesy) another  tenuous investigation, based only on the political will to strike any  dissent, in line with the indications of Maroni, and what happens  throughout Italy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We express our warm  affection, our absolute support, our total complicity with those who are  affected today by the prosecution, certain that solidarity in the  coming hours will be expanded greatly, and the comrades will not be  left alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom for all suspects!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Riottosa Sguott<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solidarity from the Occupied Asylum of Turin <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even  the comrades of the spazio liberato 400colpi, after the attack on the  Fuoriluogo in Bologna are the target of a repressive campaign that aims to  strike and to silence all individuals engaged in ongoing conflict and  direct action, whoever translates into daily life the radical critique of the existent. This  is the price to pay for those who will not bend to compromise, for  those who insist to rise and create cracks in the oppressive drabness of  the imposed pacification. What  cops and judges can not grab, because beyond the patterns of their dull  vision, and that the intolerance to the anger that threaten them can  not be reduced to an acronym, to limit the scope of labels, actors,  fantastic organizational charts or suspected identity, pergiunta created ad hoc. Because they lurk everywhere. Because they are latent and ready to spread everywhere, from every interstice of your control. The media coverage of 22 comrades arrested, those who made a practical  contribution to student protests this fall, the determination to be a  stimulus to the struggles. We  do not know anything more precise, we do not care to discuss the field  of crime and accusations, we leave that to the courts and to our enemies. <strong>What  does interest us is to use solidarity as a practical weapon to defuse  the repressive mechanisms, to emphasize that we have no intention of  retreating. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solidarity comrades of Florence, solidarity with the Spazio Liberato 400colpi! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asilo Occupato &#8211; Torino<br \/>\nWed, 5\/4\/2011 &#8211; 10:13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following communiques from informa-azione concern the recent searches and arrests targeting 78 anarchists in Florence, 22 of whom are being charged with subversive association in relation to incitement of a whole series of crimes: numerous and repeated acts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[78,13,120],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-fuoriluogo","tag-italy","tag-spazio-liberato-400colpi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}