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Chile: Raids for explosive device investigation

Posted on 2024/07/09 by darknights

As Informativo Anarquista, we aim to provide a brief update on recent events unfolding since the early hours of July 6, prior to the commemoration of the late compañera Luisa Toledo.

– Police conducted a series of raids on Radio Villa Francia, Comedor Popular Luisa Toledo, and multiple residences across various communes including Estación Central, Macul, Santiago Centro, La Granja, Cerrillos, and Maipú.

– During the operations, law enforcement uncovered artisanal and industrial weapons such as pistols, revolvers, a rifle, and a submachine gun alongside ammunition at one location.

– An industrial explosive intended for mining was discovered at another residence.

– Moreover, a homemade grenade containing black powder and a tear gas bomb were seized during a separate raid.

Subsequent to these events, on the afternoon of July 6, several individuals were formally charged. As of July 8, one person remains hospitalized. Of the detained individuals, one has been placed in preventive detention, two are under nighttime house arrest, nine have been deemed unlawfully detained, and one is awaiting an appeal.

Today, July 8, the preventive detention of a comrade and the house arrest of two others have been confirmed. The nine comrades previously held unlawfully are still awaiting a decision until July 9. Meanwhile, the comrade awaiting appeal has been placed under house arrest upon payment of bail. However, the Southern Prosecutor’s Office has lodged an appeal, which the Court of Appeals is set to deliberate on Wednesday, July 9. Furthermore, the hospitalized individual has been formally charged and placed in preventive detention.

These raids follow an investigation stemming from the incursion involving an explosive device placed in a Nissan car company in December 2023 and the deployment of a “sticky bomb” on a police vehicle during the March 29 skirmishes, coinciding with Día del Joven Combatiente (Day of the Combatant Youth).

Solidarity with those currently detained or imprisoned.

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Genoa, Italy: First-degree sentence of the Diamante trial

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

First-degree sentence of the Diamante trial (Genoa, Italy, July 5, 2023)

The first-degree sentence of the Diamante trial against anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca (arrested on March 16th, 2022) was read out today, July 5th, at the Genoa court. Evelin was acquitted of all accusations and Gianluca was convicted to 4 years and 6 months of prison (plus a fine of 15,000 euro) for ‘illegal possession of explosives’ (art. 1 and 2 of law 895/67) and ‘attempted crime’ (art. 56 c. p., Italian criminal code), while he was acquitted of the accusation of ‘manufacture or possession of explosive materials with the purpose of endangering public safety’ (art. 435 c. p.). The comrades were not tried under the ‘aggravating circumstance of the purpose of terrorism or subversion of the democratic order’ (in relation to art. 270 bis 1 c. p.) because for this aggravating circumstance, present during the investigation phase, there had been no indictment for trial. The prosecutor’s requests had been for 5 years and 6 months (plus a fine of 15,000 euro) for Evelin and 9 years and 6 months (plus 30,000 euro) for Gianluca. We recall that the latter is still under house arrest with all restrictions (prohibition of meetings with persons other than close family members, prohibition of communication and exit permits, etc.). Solidarity!

Italy: Solidarity presence at the sentencing hearing of the Diamante trial. Solidarity with Gianluca and Evelin! (Genoa, July 5, 2023)

Posted on 2023/07/04 by darknights

On July 5th, the court of Genoa will hold the hearing for the sentence in the trial against anarchists Gianluca and Evelin, who were arrested on March 16th, 2022, within the Diamante investigation and charged with fabrication and possession of explosive and explosive material. During the hearings on June 7th and 8th, the prosecutor requested a sentence of 9 years and 6 months (plus a fine of 30,000 euros) for Gianluca and 5 years and 6 months (plus 15,000 euros) for Evelin. We recall that Gianluca — who is also under investigation in the Sibilla proceeding against the anarchist paper ‘Vetriolo’ — is still under house arrest with all the restrictions for the Diamante trial (the comrades were transferred to house arrest after a period of imprisonment in Rome’s Rebibbia prison), while Evelin was released in April 2022 following the re-examination hearing on the precautionary measures.

Along with the poster for the solidarity presence of July 5th, we also enclose some texts (in Italian) concerning the investigation and trial: “Ci troverete al nostro posto, che al vostro non ci sappiamo stare. A proposito dell’inchiesta Diamante” (‘You will find us in our place, we don’t know how to be in yours. About the Diamante investigation’, May 2022) [PDF], “Breve resoconto dell’udienza preliminare del processo di Genova contro Gianluca ed Evelin” (‘Short account of the preliminary hearing of the Genoa trial against Gianluca and Evelin’, December 2022) [PDF] and “Aggiornamenti sul processo di Genova a Gianluca ed Evelin” (‘Update on the Genoa trial against Gianluca and Evelin’, April 2023) [PDF].

SOLIDARITY PRESENCE AT THE SENTENCING HEARING OF THE DIAMANTE TRIAL

On July 5th, the first-degree verdict of the ‘Diamante’ trial involving anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca as defendants will be handed down at the Genoa court. We will be there for a warm greeting to them and to renew our hatred against the State and the judiciary.

Revolutionary and complicit solidarity with Gianluca and Evelin. For anarchy!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th, 2023, 9 A.M., IN FRONT OF THE COURT OF GENOA.

Source: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/04/solidarity-presence-at-the-sentencing-hearing-of-the-diamante-trial-solidarity-with-gianluca-and-evelin-genoa-italy-july-5-2023/]

Italy: Update about the comrades arrested on March 16th: Evelin’s arrest order annulled and Gianluca’s confirmed

Posted on 2022/04/10 by darknights

On April 6th was held the hearing of the re-examination court on the precautionary measures for Gianluca and Evelin, anarchist comrades accused of “possession of deflagrant and explosive material, attempted manufacture of improvised explosive devices and possession of deflagrant material with the aim of attacking public safety”, arrested on March 16th on a warrant from the public prosecutor’s office of Genoa and later transferred under house arrest.

Today, April 8th, the comrades were notified of the result of the hearing: the arrest order against Evelin was “annulled for lack of serious evidence of guilt”, therefore the comrade is released from house arrest, while it is confirmed for Gianluca, who remains under house arrest, without any change in the specific restrictions (no communication with persons other than close family members, no leaving the perimeter of the house even to buy food, no receiving correspondence, etc., and periodic checks by the police).

We remind that a solidarity fund has been activated to support the expenses of the comrades (currently the fund is only active on italian territory). The coordinates for sending contributions are:

Postepay account number: 4023 6010 2286 1819
Tax code: BGNPPL79M18E472O

Solidarity with Gianluca and all imprisoned anarchists!

Italy: Update about the comrades arrested on March 16th: Evelin also transferred to house arrest and coordinates of solidarity fund

Posted on 2022/04/08 by darknights

Evelin was transferred to house arrest in Rovereto on March 26th. Both she and Gianluca are subject to all restrictions (no communication with each other, no communication with persons other than close family members, no leaving the perimeter of the house even to buy food, no receiving correspondence, etc., and periodic checks by the police).

A solidarity fund has been set up to support the expenses of the two comrades (currently the fund is only active on italian territory). The coordinates for sending contributions are:

Postepay account number: 4023 6010 2286 1819
Tax code: BGNPPL79M18E472O

[Note: The comrades were arrested in Rome on March 16th. The investigation and the repressive operation are the result of a joint work between the ROS (“Special Operational Grouping” of carabinieri) and the DIGOS (“General Investigations and Special Operations Division”, political police), coordinated by the Genoa public prosecutor’s office. The two comrades are charged with “possession of deflagrant and explosive material, attempted manufacture of improvised explosive devices, as well as possession of deflagrant material with the aim of attacking public safety”, in conspiracy with unknown persons, in relation to the discovery by the repressive forces of explosive material in June 2021 in a wood near Genoa].