Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of the Corvaccio Squat and the Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014 in Milan
On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, the anarchist occupations Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera – Occupied Anarchist Space, located on Via Ravenna in Milan’s Corvetto neighborhood, were being evicted with a huge number of trucks, cops, DIGOS, helicopters, and the like.
On July 3, 2023, the trial process for those resisting the eviction and the ensuing day of struggle that lasted well into the evening came to an end, with sentences of up to eight months.
Support the occupations, against all evictions: solidarity and resistance!
[Taken from the web and republished at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/05/sentenza-del-processo-per-gli-scontri-e-la-resistenza-allo-sgombero-del-corvaccio-squat-e-del-rosa-nera-il-18-novembre-2014-a-milano/]
To put the facts in context, below is a text published in November 2014:
Corvaccio resists, Corvetto ignites
Communiqué for the evictions of the Corvaccio squat and the Rosa Nera anarchist space
An abnormal awakening for Corvetto on Tuesday, November 18: in Via Ravenna instead of cappuccino and brioche, breakfast with tear gas and barricades.
It is 7 a.m. when the neighborhood, already alert and on the alert for the much heralded “eviction emergency,” notices the approach of a large number of pickup trucks. They head for Ravenna Street and close with vehicles and men two entire blocks with the clear intention of evicting Corvaccio and Rosa Nera. The former is an occupied house in which little less than a dozen rebels have lived for more than two years, while the latter an an anarchist space that for almost eight months has been hosting concerts and aperitifs in support of the prisoners, meetings, screenings and assemblies on various issues of struggle, and where at low speed a drumming class, a screen-printing workshop, a gymnasium and a documentation center are also coming to life.
The fierce press campaign, which for a week now in all newspapers nationwide has been painting those two spaces as the nerve centers of a phantom “black immovables,” turns out to be insubstantial in comparison to the relationships of trust and commonality, which day by day are growing among the neighborhood’s occupants, who are now accustomed to taking to the streets to resist the evictions together.
In front of the apes with shield and baton, the occupants of the area immediately gather, men and women from different parts of the world, babies and children, girls and boys of all ages. A few rebels are seen on the roof of the Corvaccio, and as even the furniture proves unexpectedly supportive, it appears that plainclothes officers are having some difficulty getting inside the house, until the scum decide to throw tear gas inside the rooms. At this news, the garbage bags and bins outside the surrounding buildings awaiting weekly pickup end up on the celere ropes, to return some of their fetid stench. As the people inside the house, some in handcuffs, are about to be transported to police headquarters, several bins and dumpsters spill out into the middle of the street and burst into flames. Twice an attempt is made to prevent the approach of the fire truck, which had lent itself to the infamous work of opening the houses of three comrades in the area for a search the previous day. At this juncture the scum advance, lashing their batons without looking children and pregnant women in the face. Those present gather behind a barricade of already burning dumpsters and glass collection and shattered sidewalk batons go to their aid by pouring over the guards’ helmets and shields. The uniformed pigs respond with tear gas at eye level, and the soliders move behind another barricade of burning dumpsters. The same scene is repeated and so several more times until they reach the central square of the neighborhood, where the local market is held that day. During the charges two boys and a girl are caught. From there we move in a procession through the streets of the neighborhood, through the market, blocking an access intersection to the area, until we return near Corvaccio, where a permanent garrison is set up. In the house the shits hurl furniture, clothes and all the personal belongings of the inhabitants out of the windows and then load them into some containers headed for the landfill.
During the afternoon we learn that the three people apprehended in the charges and three of those who were inside the house will be released on charges at large, while the other three caught at Corvaccio will be held under arrest. In the early hours of darkness, the three rebels who were still resisting come down from the roof without being identified and join the protest, which, turning into a demonstration, again crosses the streets of the neighborhood and arrives to block Piazzale Corvetto. From there it spills into the subway with the intention of reaching San Vittore to bring warmth to the two boys arrested the previous day during clashes over an apartment eviction in Giambellino and the three comrades taken inside Corvaccio. The procession re-emerges in Piazza Duomo, and as it travels down one of the luxury streets of downtown Milan, it smashes the windows of a dozen or so banks, real estate agencies and stores. The baboons advance, squeezing from both sides the procession, which shelters a small crosswalk, and from there they unleash, a manhunt for a few kilometers, preceded once again by tear gas thrown at eye level.
The following morning at the Milan courthouse a summary trial should take place for the three of our people still in the hands of the scumbags, but we learn that the prosecutor on duty has decided not to validate the arrest and the boys are released in the early afternoon hours.
Only the fight pays off.
Corvaccio Squat
Anarchist Space Rosa Nera
[Taken from https://rosanera.noblogs.org/post/2014/11/27/comunicato-di-corvaccio-e-rosa-nera-su-sgomberi-resistenza-e-solidarieta/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20230321234436/https://it.squat.net/2014/11/26/milano-corvaccio-resiste-corvetto-sinfiamma/ | Also originally published at http://www.informa-azione.info/print/17486 (website no longer searchable)]
Source: La Nemesi
