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Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

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. Continue reading “Milan, Italy: Sentence from the trial for the clashes and resistance to the eviction of Corvaccio Squat and Rosa Nera on November 18, 2014” →

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: Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino were sentenced to 23 years and to 17 years and 9 months

Posted on 2023/07/04 by darknights

While waiting for a more detailed text about the hearing, we inform that on June 26th, the Turin court of assizes of appeal established the extent of the convictions against anarchists Anna Beniamino and Alfredo Cospito in the Scripta Manent trial, sentencing them to 17 years and 9 months and 23 years respectively. Therefore, the possibility of a life sentence for Alfredo (and 27 years and 1 month for Anna), requested by the Turin public prosecutor’s office during the appeal hearing of December 5th, 2022, and later on June 19th and 26th, was definitively ruled out.

We remind that during the Scripta Manent trial — in addition to accusations of subversive association with the purpose of terrorism and subversion of the democratic order, attack with terrorist purposes, incitement to commit crimes aggravated by the purpose of terrorism, etc. — several accusations and convictions for massacre followed against Anna and Alfredo, first for the action in the bourgeois district of Crocetta (Turin, 2007) and later for the action against Caserma Allievi Carabinieri (Cadets of Carabinieri Barracks, Fossano, 2006). With the requalification by the court of cassation (July 6th, 2022) of the conviction for massacre against public safety (art. 422 of the Italian penal code) into massacre against State security (art. 285 of the penal code), the comrade risked a life sentence due to the prevalence of repeated recidivism over mitigating circumstances. The legislation that established the mandatory life sentence was subsequently amended by the constitutional court with the hearing on April 18th: not a “victory” for the rule of law or a “return” to the principles of the constitution, but a result achieved by the hunger strike against 41 bis prison regime and life imprisonment without possibility of parole and the international solidarity movement that developed between May 2022 and April 2023.

DEATH TO THE STATE AND CAPITAL! SOLIDARITY WITH ANNA BENIAMINO, ALFREDO COSPITO AND ALL IMPRISONED ANARCHISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES!

[Translated into english and published by https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/02/alfredo-cospito-and-anna-beniamino-were-sentenced-to-23-years-and-17-years-and-9-months-italy/ | Originally published in italian, on June 27th, at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/27/alfredo-cospito-e-anna-beniamino-sono-stati-condannati-a-23-anni-e-a-17-anni-e-9-mesi/]

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(IT) Alfredo Cospito e Anna Beniamino sono stati condannati a 23 anni e a 17 anni e 9 mesi
(EN) Alfredo Cospito and Anna Beniamino were sentenced to 23 years and to 17 years and 9 months (Italy)
(FR) Alfredo Cospito et Anna Beniamino condamnés à 23 ans et à 17 ans et 9 mois (Italie)

Italy: Statements of Alfredo Cospito & Anna Beniamino at the hearing on June 19, 2023 at the Turin Court of Appeals

Posted on 2023/06/25 by darknights

We are circulating Alfredo Cospito’s statement at the June 19 hearing in the court of appeals in Turin on the calculation of sentences against Alfredo himself and Anna Beniamino as part of the Scripta Manent trial. The comrade was connected via video-conference from the Bancali prison in Sassari (as known, the regulations do not require in-person presence). Replications and sentencing against the comrades are postponed to a later hearing scheduled for Monday, June 26, at 12 noon, also at the Turin court.

Alfredo Cospito: Statement at the June 19, 2023 hearing at the Turin Court of Appeal

This statement of mine is closely related to the trial because it goes into the merits of the sanctioning treatment you imposed on me. Sanctioning treatment that is unconstitutional and contradicts your own laws. Sanctioning treatment, 41 bis, that distorts the very meaning of my imprisonment, imposing on me a senseless censure that limits my right to defense.

It is obvious to all how my trial affair has been used as a sort of cudgel by one political party, “the government,” against another political party, the so-called “opposition.” My last-minute transfer from one section to another in anticipation of the arrival of PD parliamentarians is a striking example. Which shows how the DAP and 41 bis have been exploited for political purposes.

These facts are closely related to this trial because they are the product of past political dynamics that led to our disproportionate prosecution and conviction for political slaughter. To shut my mouth now, at the only time I can defend myself would mean endorsing this dangerous and totalitarian drift. Before talking about Fossano and the so-called “massacre” (although there is little to say, it would be enough to look at the images of the damage of the tremendous explosion) for just two minutes I will have to mention three deaths, two of which I am somehow responsible for, the third death that of Cosimo occurred at the clinical center of Opera, ward 41 bis. Continue reading “Italy: Statements of Alfredo Cospito & Anna Beniamino at the hearing on June 19, 2023 at the Turin Court of Appeals” →

Italy: Update on the June 7-8 hearings of the Diamante trial: prosecutor’s indictment and upcoming hearing for the sentence

Posted on 2023/06/25 by darknights

Update on the June 7-8 hearings of the Diamante trial: prosecutor’s indictment and upcoming hearing for the sentence (Italy)

On June 7th and 8th, at the Court of Genoa, there was the prosecutor’s indictment and the defence lawyers’ discussion of the trial against anarchist comrades Evelin and Gianluca. The prosecutor’s requests were for 5 years and 6 months and a fine of 15,000 euro for Evelin and 9 years and 6 months and 30,000 euro for Gianluca [the comrade is currently under house arrest with all restrictions].

A further hearing was postponed to July 5th for the reading of the first-degree sentence.

Updates will follow.

[Published in italian at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/08/aggiornamenti-sulle-udienze-del-7-8-giugno-del-processo-diamante-richieste-di-condanna-del-pubblico-ministero-e-prossima-udienza-per-la-sentenza/ | English translation published at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/09/update-on-the-june-7-8-hearings-of-the-diamante-trial-prosecutors-indictment-and-upcoming-hearing-for-the-sentence-italy/]

Italy: È uscito “Bezmotivny”, quindicinale anarchico internazionalista, anno III, numero 11, 12 giugno 2023

Posted on 2023/06/25 by darknights

È uscito “Bezmotivny”, quindicinale anarchico internazionalista, anno III, numero 11, 12 giugno 2023

Sommario:

— L’uomo che cadde sulla terra, “Le vite degli altri”
— Rivoluzione, “Il rinvio”
— “Il vento dell’anarchia”
— “Appello all’azione internazionale in solidarietà con l’anarchico in sciopero della fame G. Michailidis”
— “Stop cop city. Appello internazionale alla solidarietà con gli anarchici ad Atlanta, USA”
— “Notizie dalla Sicilia. Nuovi progetti militari”
— Qualcun* dal territorio che non c’è, “Contro il militarismo. Per una vita fuori dagli Stati”
— “Vademecum per gli amici della lotta”
— “Strage di via dei Georgofili. Indagata un’anarchica”
— Alfredo M. Bonanno, “L’amore e la morte”
— Assemblea di solidarietà con Alfredo Cospito e i prigionieri rivoluzionari, “Uno più mille insuscettibili di ravvedimento. Contributo sulla mobilitazione in solidarietà con Alfredo Cospito”
— “Operazione Panico”
— “Arrestato Greg”
— un’anarchica, “Con l’acqua alla gola. Uno sguardo anarchico sull’alluvione in Romagna”
— Brígadas Anárquicas Luis Ramírez Olaechea, “Attacco esplosivo contro la Fundación Paz Ciudadana”
— “UK: rivolta a Cardiff”
— “Cardiff. Una notte di rivolta, vendetta, rabbia e sfida”
— “Patrasso. Raffica di attacchi alle banche”
— “Salonicco, Grecia. Incendiato un furgone della COSMOTE”
— “Roussillon, Francia. Sabotaggio della linea ad alta tensione che alimenta l’azienda Hexcel in solidarietà a Serge”
— “Tolosa, Francia. Né metro né lavoro”

“Bezmotivny”, quindicinale anarchico internazionalista, anno III, numero 11, 12 giugno 2023. Per ricevere copie e/o abbonarsi scrivere all’e-mail senzamotivo@riseup.net oppure alla seguente casella postale: Bezmotivny, c/o Casella postale 59, 54033 Carrara (MS).

Prezzo di copertina: 1,50 euro. Abbonamento annuo: 35 euro. Abbonamento sostenitore: 50 euro. Abbonamento distributore: contattatare la redazione.

[Ricevuto via e-mail e pubblicato in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/12/e-uscito-bezmotivny-quindicinale-anarchico-internazionalista-anno-iii-numero-11-12-giugno-2023/]

Italy: Dayvid was transferred from Civitavecchia prison to Viterbo prison (May 2023)

Posted on 2023/05/25 - 2023/05/25 by darknights

Dayvid, an anarchist arrested during the summer of 2022 in Greece for the definitives of the “October 15” trial, was transferred to Viterbo. To write to him:

Dayvid Ceccarelli
C. C. di Viterbo
strada S. Salvatore 14/B
01100 Viterbo

We remind you of the coordinates of the solidarity fund:

Letterhead: Gaia Taino
Postepay number: 5333 1711 6663 2741
IBAN: IT38M3608105138230559830588

Dayvid free.
All* free*.
Fire to the galleys.

[Received by e-mail and posted at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/24/dayvid-e-stato-trasferito-dal-carcere-di-civitavecchia-a-quello-di-viterbo-maggio-2023/]

Émile Henry (Sept. 26, 1872 – May 21, 1894)

Posted on 2023/05/24 - 2023/05/24 by darknights

Source: La Nemesi

Émile Henry (Sept. 26, 1872 – May 21, 1894)

“Comrades, courage. Long live anarchy!” On May 21, 1894, the anarchist Émile Henry was guillotined. A few words for a comrade who dedicated his short and intense life, integrally and to the end, to anarchy. So many years have passed – well over a century of actions, dreams, revolutions – and the revolutionary will of this comrade continues to shine with the infinite wonderful facets of our ideal. Émile is immortal.

Aphorisms

Once, the cloister opened for souls weary or disgusted with the spectacles of the world, today we have no other refuge than in hospitals and prisons.

What do anarchists want? The autonomy of the individual, the development of his free initiative, which alone will be able to assure him all possible happiness. If the anarchist admits communism as a social conception, it is by simple deduction, because he understands that it is only in the happiness of all, free and autonomous as he is, that he will find his own happiness.

When a man, in today’s society, becomes a conscious rebel of his own action-and such was Ravachol-it is because he has done in his brain a painful work of analysis whose conclusions are imperative and cannot be evaded except by cowardice. He alone holds the scales, he alone is judge of the right or wrong of hating and being savage, “even fierce.”

I believe that acts of brutal revolt are right, because they wake up the masses, shake them like a violent lash, and show them the vulnerable side of the Bourgeoisie still all trembling at the moment when the Rebel goes up to the gallows.

Everyone has a special physiognomy and attitudes that differentiate him from his fellow fighters. Thus, we are not surprised to see revolutionaries so divided in the direction of their efforts. We wonder what good tactics are: they are everywhere proportional to the amount of energy brought to the action. But we recognize no one’s right to say, “Only our propaganda is the good one; outside of it there is no salvation.” It is an old residue of authoritarianism born of true or false reason that libertarians must not tolerate.

Do what you think is best and do it with love.

To those who say, “Hate does not breed love,” answer that it is love, alive, that often breeds hate.

Hate that rests not on low envy, but on a generous feeling, is a healthy and powerfully vital passion.

The more we love our dream of freedom, strength and beauty, the more we must hate that which opposes its future.

In the history of human progress there is only one party; it is the party of movement.

Socialists do not want to understand that the freedom of the individual is necessary to the true freedom of the people.

In the dedication of his book, From the Other Side, Alexandre Herzen specifies a truly revolutionary and effective attitude when he says, “We do not build, we demolish; we do not announce new revelations at all, we suppress the old lie.” This book by Herzen is full of flashes and revelations, but there is no lack of biting remarks in it either: it is a good book for the prison; and away from the street I like to take it as an echo: “The French cannot rid themselves of the idea of monarchical organization; they have a passion for police and authority; every Frenchman is in his soul a police commissioner; he loves alignment and discipline; everything that is independent, individual, irritates him; he understands equality only as leveling and willingly submits to the arbitrariness of the police as long as everyone submits to it. Put a chevron on a Frenchman’s hat and he becomes an oppressor, he begins to oppress anyone who does not wear that rank; he demands respect towards authority.”

There is one right that overrides all others; it is the right to insurrection. Continue reading “Émile Henry (Sept. 26, 1872 – May 21, 1894)” →

Berlin, Germany: solidarity arson of a relay antenna

Posted on 2023/05/24 by darknights

Berlin: solidarity arson of a relay antenna.

For the lasting interruption of deadly techno-industrial progress.

On the night of April 26-27, we set fire to a cell tower in the Kaulsdorf district of Berlin.

Data flows and the telecommunication network are the sinews of progressive domination. The result of this technological capitalism was, is and will always be the exploitation and destruction of all forms of life. It is not enough to make a simple verbal and long-standing criticism against this state of affairs… The shit has to burn!

There are infrastructures scattered throughout the city and its periphery that are relatively easy to find and access, and are therefore vulnerable.

A thought for Serge, who is currently fighting for his life after the French cops shot a tear gas canister into his face.
Alongside Boris, incarcerated in France for sabotage actions, who became quadriplegic after a fire in his cell.
A good recovery to Alfredo!
Greetings to Anna and Juan in Italy!

For the diffusion of the revolutionary and destructive action

Via: Sans Nom

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!