July 4th is the date of the preliminary hearing of the proceedings for the events of piazza Trilussa and Trastevere, in Rome, of 28 January, 2023.

On that day the indictment concerning the 13 comrades accused of resisting a public official and of carrying weapons or objects likely to offend, with numerous aggravating circumstances, will be requested. We recall that at the time of the events the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito had been on hunger strike for 101 days against 41 bis and a life sentence without appeal. That Saturday afternoon a demonstration in solidarity was called in piazza Trilussa, in Rome, which the police forces decided to surround and provoke. However that evening the plans did not go as foreseen in the offices of the police, with a part of the demonstrators remaining outside the encirclement and the police forces ending up in the grip of those whom they wanted to provoke.

There was a riot and a wild procession through the streets of Trastevere, determined to hold the streets for a few hours, ending with 42 demonstrators arrested (taken to the police station and denounced for violence or threatening a public official, resistance against a public official and damage).

The trial that will begin on July 4th is informed on the basis of video recordings made by police officers and journalist voyeurs, and does not strictly concern those arrested that night.

Beyond the presumed personal liability suggested by cops and judges,we can only reiterate the rightness of the reasons of that piazza and the sacrosanct anger it expressed. As well as the whole baggage of experiences, demonstrations and actions that were expressed during the mobilization in support of the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito and the other revolutionary prisoners. We reject the division into “good” and “bad”, guilty and innocent.

ALFREDO OUT OF 41 BIS!
END 41 BIS!
Solidarity with the accused!

Updates and eventual solidarity initiatives to follow

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