news about genoa and gothenburg in english
gipfelsoli@nadir.org | 18.02.2003 12:46
- Information about the detentions in italy, december 2002
- News about the trials in Gothenburg and Germany
- News about the trials in Gothenburg and Germany
ON THE SITUATION OF THE COMRADES HIT BY THE REPRESSION OF THE ENQUIRY CARRIED ON BY GENOESE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE SO CALLED “G8 2001 FACTS”
We inform all the groups and the people of the movement who didn’t know yet that the enquiry “4th of December”, whose investigations are still in course, is now continuing with the interrogations requested by the public prosecutors, after being examined by the review court with the various appeals produced by the lawyers of the defendants (24). The results of the review are, we think, well known, but we want to sum up. Some defendants obtained the extenuation of the restrictive measures that the judge had initially settled for them; extenuation that means the change, for example, from an initial imprisoned condition to the house arrest, or from the latest to the liability to stay at home for signing. At the moment 5 comrades are still in jail: Carlo Cuccomarino, Alberto Funaro, Francesco Puglisi, Vincenzo Vecchi e Marina Cugnaschi. 9 persons, of the 24 involved in the measures of the Genoese magistracy, were initially arrested and brought in jail.
From the interrogations that Marina and Vincenzo underwent before the public prosecutors (Canepa and Canciani) on the last 4th of January, we can say that the comrades have claimed with firmness and coherence their political and human identity of anarchists, present in Genoa during the days of fight and international ANTI G8 mobilization of the July 2001. They naturally refused to answer every question in regard to other people and refused the dialectic of an interrogation aimed at accomplishing and strengthening the theorems of the prosecution, both specifically in regard to themselves and in general.
After the interrogation, Marina (defended and assisted by the lawyers Mazzali and Taddei) made a request to the judge to obtain the house arrest. The request was rejected on the 10th of January (because of the negative opinion of the public prosecutors) by the judge Daloiso, who confirmed the same absurd, self-serving and provocative motivations of the review court that expressed itself on the 18th of December 2002. Cugnaschi doesn’t repent, doesn’t accuse anyone, doesn’t have a suitable house, doesn’t want to go away from the political circles behind her, so “the detention in jail seems proportionate to the entity of the sentence she could undergo, while house arrest seems unsuited to face up the recidivous danger in the crime considering her personality as it emerges from the gravity of the crimes she committed and from her behaviour during the trial”.
To this request, now follows an appeal to the review court from her lawyers who clearly - among the other things - notice that “we are before a motivation full of apodictic considerations, wrong both under the point of view of the justice, because absolutely inconsistent as regards the theme of the PREVENTIVE NECESSITIES, and under the point of view of the truth”. As regards Vincenzo (assisted by the lawyer Multedo), after the interrogation before the public prosecutors, on the 7th of January, the defence decides to contest all ordinance’s purview of the judge, filing an appeal to the supreme court, against the decision of the review court, dated 17.12.02, that confirmed the motivations of the ordinance reaffirming the preventive detention necessities. We want to say that the length of the supreme court is medium-long (about 3 months) and that in the meantime this appeal doesn’t prevent the lawyers to present other requests to the judge.
Saying that, and reaffirming that it would be useful to the defence and to comrades’ support to know their situations, we can definitely say that the wish of the Genoese attorney’s office (although with internal quarrels and contradictions) isn’t certainly that, in a few words, of surviving. The “wanted” appeared on the main Ligurian newspaper, “SECOLO XIX”, regarding COBAS’ militants and the actual attempt to criminalize, are the steady confirmation.
And so, the urgent exigencies to intensify the solidarity initiatives, in order to underline the heavy provocations that judges, who seem to have already passed their sentences, are carrying on, remain unvaried. We don’t appeal to anyone in particular but we think that chiefly an emotional answer or an attitude generically defined “low profile” simply allow the detention of the comrades who courageously claim responsibility for their fight course, while other people go on talking or organizing, with proclamations and fantasies, forums and demonstrations that just avoid the rise of the historical and political context in which many days of fight, like those of anti G8 mobilizations in Genoa during July 2001, matured.
The comrades, individually and together, in their situations, have absolutely to make an elaboration effort in order to assume, with strength, clarity and decision, through a new political maturity, the political defence, in addition to the human one, of the victims of all the various repressive trials in course, also together with the ability to refuse and retort these trials with forms, ways and time that just don’t mean “to remedy” or “to dress wounds” inflicted by the steady attacks of the POWER. We don’t expect trials and tribunals for the guardians and the slaves of the established order, we don’t ask the state to lame itself showing its torturer and warder face. We think that what we call real unofficial information have to be carried on by the comrades and the revolutionary militants, who have to find the will and the strength to coordinate fight and action moments that will be at the same time defence and support of all people, defence and reconquest of practicable spaces on the territory until the restoration of the only well-grounded and sensible consideration in the common fight moments or in the defensive strategies that is and has to become again the revolutionary solidarity. Sufficiently recent and direct news say us that Vincenzo and Marina are well (if we can use this word talking about imprisoned comrades). Now we strongly invite all people to get in touch with the Committee in order to consider the next initiatives and to spread as much as it’s possible direct information about the situation of the comrades, who have not to feel alone at least
SOLIDARITY AND LIBERTY FOR ALL
ALWAYS FIGHT AND MOBILIZE FOR OUR MAIN PURPOSE:
THE RADICAL CANCELLATION OF EVERY PRISON!
Today we know that
Vincenzo Vecchi is detained in the jail of Genoa: Piazzale Marassi - 16139 Genova
Marina Cugnaschi is now under house arrest
Francesco Puglisi is detained in the jail of Messina: Via Consolare valeria 2 - 98100 Messina Gazzi
[CNA/ABC Italy]
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News about the trials in Gothenburg and Germany
This article is from a solidarity group in Berlin, which can be contacted via
solitreffengbg@gmx.net. It's about Repression after the EU-Summit 2001 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with emphasis on Germany:
In May 2002 Gothenburg Police and Prosecutors were through with the evaluation of the footage and other stuff they had. The Swedish prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand announced, that 17 persons from the other Scandinavia countries, the Netherlands and Germany will will be accused in their home-countries. The new thing about this is, that the evidences were gathered by Swedish prosecutors and they brought in the accusation against these 17 directly at the courts in the home-countries (7 Germany, 1 NL, 2 Norway, 2 Finland, 5 Denmark).
Since May 2002 there have been several cases here in Germany where police made house searches because of this. The last one was in Berlin on the 8th of January. At about 6:00 AM seven police showed up at the home of Timm E. They arrested him and searched his flat. One the same day a arrest warrant against him was released and he was put to custody. The judge gave as reason for this, that there was the danger of absconding, because Timm had been abroad before - that was in Gothenburg! He had to stay in Prison 34 days and is released by now, but the accusation is still relevant.
As in most cases in Sweden and abroad, he is charged because of rioting: "våldsamt upplopp" in Sweden or the German "schwerer Landfriedensbruch", which are quite similar. This means, you're supposed to have been with a crowd, which violence came from. This is somehow the requirement for this coordination between Swedish and foreign prosecutors, that the accusation regards something, that must be a crime in *both* countries. For example, the person in NL cannot be accused of rioting, because they don't have any law like that over there (yet?).
Anyway, until today there have been more than 60 trials in Sweden because of Gothenburg (the numbers given in the text are somewhat out of date, so won't translate the exact statistics). Most of these ended in sentences, from which most ended with prison. The sentences are very hard compared to similar cases in Sweden - in average about 10-times longer than before Gothenburg. Also many sentences are based on very questionable evidences. And there are still trials pending!
No police has been charged. Not even the one, that fired at three protesters - even though the official evaluation came to the result, that these shots where not justifiable. There were efforts to accuse policemen, but without success.
According to the article two Germans are in custody in Bavaria, (South-Germany), but at this point I do not know anything about their cases.
These were the informations given in the article.
There is also one Swedish prisoner in hungerstrike since the 23rd of January. You can find this pressrelease in English on Indymedia Sweden or here:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/aktuell/2003/02/13/14366.html
It also gives informations about how to support him.
Allmost all of the other Gothenburg-Prisoners are supported by the solidaritygroup in Gothenburg: solidaritetsgruppen@hotmail.com
Feel free to forward these informations given here.
Solidarity!
[gipfelsoli infogruppe /germany]
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We inform all the groups and the people of the movement who didn’t know yet that the enquiry “4th of December”, whose investigations are still in course, is now continuing with the interrogations requested by the public prosecutors, after being examined by the review court with the various appeals produced by the lawyers of the defendants (24). The results of the review are, we think, well known, but we want to sum up. Some defendants obtained the extenuation of the restrictive measures that the judge had initially settled for them; extenuation that means the change, for example, from an initial imprisoned condition to the house arrest, or from the latest to the liability to stay at home for signing. At the moment 5 comrades are still in jail: Carlo Cuccomarino, Alberto Funaro, Francesco Puglisi, Vincenzo Vecchi e Marina Cugnaschi. 9 persons, of the 24 involved in the measures of the Genoese magistracy, were initially arrested and brought in jail.
From the interrogations that Marina and Vincenzo underwent before the public prosecutors (Canepa and Canciani) on the last 4th of January, we can say that the comrades have claimed with firmness and coherence their political and human identity of anarchists, present in Genoa during the days of fight and international ANTI G8 mobilization of the July 2001. They naturally refused to answer every question in regard to other people and refused the dialectic of an interrogation aimed at accomplishing and strengthening the theorems of the prosecution, both specifically in regard to themselves and in general.
After the interrogation, Marina (defended and assisted by the lawyers Mazzali and Taddei) made a request to the judge to obtain the house arrest. The request was rejected on the 10th of January (because of the negative opinion of the public prosecutors) by the judge Daloiso, who confirmed the same absurd, self-serving and provocative motivations of the review court that expressed itself on the 18th of December 2002. Cugnaschi doesn’t repent, doesn’t accuse anyone, doesn’t have a suitable house, doesn’t want to go away from the political circles behind her, so “the detention in jail seems proportionate to the entity of the sentence she could undergo, while house arrest seems unsuited to face up the recidivous danger in the crime considering her personality as it emerges from the gravity of the crimes she committed and from her behaviour during the trial”.
To this request, now follows an appeal to the review court from her lawyers who clearly - among the other things - notice that “we are before a motivation full of apodictic considerations, wrong both under the point of view of the justice, because absolutely inconsistent as regards the theme of the PREVENTIVE NECESSITIES, and under the point of view of the truth”. As regards Vincenzo (assisted by the lawyer Multedo), after the interrogation before the public prosecutors, on the 7th of January, the defence decides to contest all ordinance’s purview of the judge, filing an appeal to the supreme court, against the decision of the review court, dated 17.12.02, that confirmed the motivations of the ordinance reaffirming the preventive detention necessities. We want to say that the length of the supreme court is medium-long (about 3 months) and that in the meantime this appeal doesn’t prevent the lawyers to present other requests to the judge.
Saying that, and reaffirming that it would be useful to the defence and to comrades’ support to know their situations, we can definitely say that the wish of the Genoese attorney’s office (although with internal quarrels and contradictions) isn’t certainly that, in a few words, of surviving. The “wanted” appeared on the main Ligurian newspaper, “SECOLO XIX”, regarding COBAS’ militants and the actual attempt to criminalize, are the steady confirmation.
And so, the urgent exigencies to intensify the solidarity initiatives, in order to underline the heavy provocations that judges, who seem to have already passed their sentences, are carrying on, remain unvaried. We don’t appeal to anyone in particular but we think that chiefly an emotional answer or an attitude generically defined “low profile” simply allow the detention of the comrades who courageously claim responsibility for their fight course, while other people go on talking or organizing, with proclamations and fantasies, forums and demonstrations that just avoid the rise of the historical and political context in which many days of fight, like those of anti G8 mobilizations in Genoa during July 2001, matured.
The comrades, individually and together, in their situations, have absolutely to make an elaboration effort in order to assume, with strength, clarity and decision, through a new political maturity, the political defence, in addition to the human one, of the victims of all the various repressive trials in course, also together with the ability to refuse and retort these trials with forms, ways and time that just don’t mean “to remedy” or “to dress wounds” inflicted by the steady attacks of the POWER. We don’t expect trials and tribunals for the guardians and the slaves of the established order, we don’t ask the state to lame itself showing its torturer and warder face. We think that what we call real unofficial information have to be carried on by the comrades and the revolutionary militants, who have to find the will and the strength to coordinate fight and action moments that will be at the same time defence and support of all people, defence and reconquest of practicable spaces on the territory until the restoration of the only well-grounded and sensible consideration in the common fight moments or in the defensive strategies that is and has to become again the revolutionary solidarity. Sufficiently recent and direct news say us that Vincenzo and Marina are well (if we can use this word talking about imprisoned comrades). Now we strongly invite all people to get in touch with the Committee in order to consider the next initiatives and to spread as much as it’s possible direct information about the situation of the comrades, who have not to feel alone at least
SOLIDARITY AND LIBERTY FOR ALL
ALWAYS FIGHT AND MOBILIZE FOR OUR MAIN PURPOSE:
THE RADICAL CANCELLATION OF EVERY PRISON!
Today we know that
Vincenzo Vecchi is detained in the jail of Genoa: Piazzale Marassi - 16139 Genova
Marina Cugnaschi is now under house arrest
Francesco Puglisi is detained in the jail of Messina: Via Consolare valeria 2 - 98100 Messina Gazzi
[CNA/ABC Italy]
--------------------------------------------------------------
News about the trials in Gothenburg and Germany
This article is from a solidarity group in Berlin, which can be contacted via
solitreffengbg@gmx.net. It's about Repression after the EU-Summit 2001 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with emphasis on Germany: In May 2002 Gothenburg Police and Prosecutors were through with the evaluation of the footage and other stuff they had. The Swedish prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand announced, that 17 persons from the other Scandinavia countries, the Netherlands and Germany will will be accused in their home-countries. The new thing about this is, that the evidences were gathered by Swedish prosecutors and they brought in the accusation against these 17 directly at the courts in the home-countries (7 Germany, 1 NL, 2 Norway, 2 Finland, 5 Denmark).
Since May 2002 there have been several cases here in Germany where police made house searches because of this. The last one was in Berlin on the 8th of January. At about 6:00 AM seven police showed up at the home of Timm E. They arrested him and searched his flat. One the same day a arrest warrant against him was released and he was put to custody. The judge gave as reason for this, that there was the danger of absconding, because Timm had been abroad before - that was in Gothenburg! He had to stay in Prison 34 days and is released by now, but the accusation is still relevant.
As in most cases in Sweden and abroad, he is charged because of rioting: "våldsamt upplopp" in Sweden or the German "schwerer Landfriedensbruch", which are quite similar. This means, you're supposed to have been with a crowd, which violence came from. This is somehow the requirement for this coordination between Swedish and foreign prosecutors, that the accusation regards something, that must be a crime in *both* countries. For example, the person in NL cannot be accused of rioting, because they don't have any law like that over there (yet?).
Anyway, until today there have been more than 60 trials in Sweden because of Gothenburg (the numbers given in the text are somewhat out of date, so won't translate the exact statistics). Most of these ended in sentences, from which most ended with prison. The sentences are very hard compared to similar cases in Sweden - in average about 10-times longer than before Gothenburg. Also many sentences are based on very questionable evidences. And there are still trials pending!
No police has been charged. Not even the one, that fired at three protesters - even though the official evaluation came to the result, that these shots where not justifiable. There were efforts to accuse policemen, but without success.
According to the article two Germans are in custody in Bavaria, (South-Germany), but at this point I do not know anything about their cases.
These were the informations given in the article.
There is also one Swedish prisoner in hungerstrike since the 23rd of January. You can find this pressrelease in English on Indymedia Sweden or here:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/aktuell/2003/02/13/14366.html It also gives informations about how to support him.
Allmost all of the other Gothenburg-Prisoners are supported by the solidaritygroup in Gothenburg:
solidaritetsgruppen@hotmail.com Feel free to forward these informations given here.
Solidarity!
[gipfelsoli infogruppe /germany]
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mit eckigen Klammern versehen. Wir können leider keine Verantwortung
für die Richtigkeit der Beiträge übernehmen. Auch geben die Beiträge
nicht zwangsläufig unsere Meinung wieder.
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