Phony Justice.

 

     In this world of pampered privilege for the wealthy few and bare knuckle treatment for the poor, justice is a word of many interpretations. Innocent until proven guilty sounds fine, but that doesn't mean that you are free until proven guilty. The following case is not unique where individuals are held in high security sections of prisons for over a year, while waiting for that verdict, guilty or not guilty. All this on the whim of one or group of those wealthy pampered privileged few. Those tasked with administering this loaded justice, wear fancy clothes, sit in high chairs and dispense their brand of justice written by the wealthy pampered privileged few, to protect their wealth and power. This is not justice, this is bare faced protectionism by a powerful, wealthy clique.

The following is from Act For Freedom Now:

 

 

        A preliminary hearing for the ”Prometeo” investigation was held on 29th July at the court in Genoa. Videoconferencing was imposed on Beppe and Nat, and given the charges against them (article 280, with aggravated and continued circumstances) this is likely to continue throughout the trial.
         During the hearing lawyers raised a technical issue which has been going on for months, i.e. that no one has been able to access environmental and telephone bugging yet, considered “evidence” on which a good part of the accusatory structure is based. Moreover, with the change of public prosecutor, a good part of the material had not even reached pm Federico Manotti, now in charge of the investigation. The investigating judge therefore postponed the preliminary discussion and the choice of trial procedures by setting two hearings: the first on 11th and the second on 18th [August] for any reruns.
         After over a year in prison, the investigating judge ordered an extension of the custodial measure for Beppe and Nat on the eve of the detention period expiry term, justifying it with the usual “risk of escape” due to the accuseds’ lifestyles: owning a camper van that can be used for travel and for undertaking seasonal work abroad has become the pretext for justifying the escape risk and handing out more days of prison as though they were sweets.
      An appeal hearing concerning Natascia’s remand will be held on 14th August.
      Meantime, while these gentlemen are taking their time, Natascia remains locked up in the AS3 unit in the prison of Piacenza, and Beppe in the secure unit in Pavia: in spite of Beppe’s two hunger strikes and repeated requests from lawyers, the Director of Prison Administration persists in holding him in there.
As always, and even more so in anticipation of the trial, we are renewing the call for solidarity with the accused comrades.
FREEDOM FOR ALL!
To write to the comrades still locked up in jail:
NATASCIA SAVIO
C.C. SAN LAZZARO
STRADA DELLE NOVATE 65
29122 PIACENZA
ITALY
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GIUSEPPE BRUNA
C.C. DI PAVIA
VIA VIGENTINA 85
27100 PAVIA
ITALY
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Death In Genoa, July 20, 2001..

      We should always remember those who lost their lives at the hands of the police, while protesting injustice. July 20 2001 Carlo Giuliani a 23 year old anarchist was shot by the police during a protest at the G8 summit in Genoa, he was then run over by a police vehicle, there is a belief that he may have been alive at the time the vehicle run over him.

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IT'S A RIGGED SYSTEM.

        Police brutality and repression is present across the world. It is like a sea with waves that rise and fall, rising here, falling there and then changing again in an ever changing pattern. However the state is never afraid to raise the level of brutality, as it knows that it has set up a judicial system that will never point the finger at the state. Those perpetrating the brutality in the name of the state, also know that they will be protected by that same judicial system. But the full brutality of that judicial system will be felt by those who dare to question that state authority and its monopoly on violence. Brutal state repression does not always happen on the streets, it is also handed out by those placed in the privileged position within that judicial system. Those people who dress in fancy clothes and demand that those who question the state be incarcerated for years on end. The state its self is a brutal system that demands obedience and shows no mercy on those who dare to question and/or resist. In Genoa 2001 the Italian state showed how brutal it could be in suppressing dissent. At the G8 summit that year the state's mercenaries, the police, in the hours of darkness, raided the Diaz School, where activists who had come to protest the G8 summit agenda, were sleeping. The police ran through the school, beating and arresting sleeping activists. Now it seems that after all this time all the police charged with various offences related to that brutal assault, will now have those charges dropped, as we would expect. 

 

This from Italy Calling:

       After a 9-hour debate, the Italian Supreme Court has issued its final sentence against the 25 defendants – policemen and heads of security forces – responsible for the violence against the activists sleeping in the Diaz school during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. Result: most of the charges have been declared time-barred, leading to impunity for all the people involved. In the meantime, 10 activists are facing a total of 100 years of jail between themselves for crimes of “devastation and looting”.

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