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Bolzano: Declaration at the appeal trial for the Brenner demonstration
Today, February 3rd, the last hearing before the verdict in the appeal trial for the demonstration against borders (Brennero, May 2016) took place in the court of Bolzano. This is the declaration that was read out in court, signed by some twenty accused:
Declaration at the appeal trial for the Brenner demonstration
If there is one place where words do not express mere opinions devoid of consequences it is a court. In a few days, in this courtroom, it will be decided whether and for how long our future will be one of bars and prison.
In the repressive doggedness that the various public prosecutors’ offices of this country have long reserved for the anarchist movement – of which the 130 years’ imprisonment dispensed in the first-instance verdict of this trial is a good example – is reaching its peak at the moment. The State seems determined to condemn anarchist comrade Alfredo Cospito to death, today on his 107th day of hunger strike to the end against the torture of 41 bis and against life imprisonment without appeal. Alfredo’s determination, on the one hand, and institutional ferocity on the other, decisively overshadow the outcome of this trial and our individual fates.
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