Category Archives: Italy – General news ,sabotage, actions and Solidarity with anarchists arrested and all those under investigation
Italy: Measure and process updates for “Operation Bialystok”
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January 2022
As we approach the end of the trial of Operation Bialystok, it seems to us to be the right moment to spread some considerations on its progress. Although we are not interested in following the 
pace dictated by repression, nor in taking a victimistic or alarmist stance in the face of the activities of police institutions, we believe it is important to share information and impressions about what is happening at the court level. By conscious choice, we will summarize aspects and moments that we consider noteworthy, at the expense of a detailed and chronological description of the trial in which we are involved.
As far as the framework of the investigation is concerned, we refer to the texts “Sull’operazione Bialystok” (On the Bialystok operation) already published and circulated on the web and “Testo e contesto” (Text and context).
At the time of writing all defendants in this proceeding are at large. On January 27th a positive response was received to a request for the end of the precautionary measures to which 4 defendants were still subject (3 obligations to stay and one obligation to present themselves for weekly signatures), so that at the moment only one person remains under obligations to stay. The differences in conditions are mainly due to the different timing in the presentation of the appeals which brought the same before different courts, and to the specificity of the individual positions regarding the crimes charged.
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Italy – When they come knocking…
«When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun…»
At the beginning of December one of the tele-virologists most loved 
by journalists affirmed that freedom of choice constitutes a problem which should be solved by those in power. That anyone who insists on not obeying voluntarily should be compelled to do so by force. That the freedom to not get vaccinated, for example, can only exist for a hermit who lives alone in the middle of the desert. As for the others, the citizens of society, “evidently there is no alternative for these people than obligation, but serious obligation, that which sends the carabinieri to your home to get you”. The peremptory affirmation made the on-duty journalist hosting him chuckle (and certainly not because of his faltering Italian). A week later, the army general entrusted by the government with leading the war against the terrible virus declared that he and his troops were ready: along with Santa Claus, «he will deliver vaccinations door to door». In addition to the elderly isolated in the most remote villages, the military are “ready to vaccinate the whole lot” — of children…
Lugano,Switzerland – Eppur la nostra idea [And yet our idea]…
A report on two animated days in Lugano
Here is a [slightly abbreviated] report on the attempt to re-occupy the CSOA [anarchist occupied social centre] il Molino in Lugano. There is much to be said and this text doesn’t claim to be exhaustive, but it gives the point of view of those who were present at the time and lived through it.
29th December
On Wednesday 29th December a group of comrades went into the area of the ex-slaughterhouse to attempt to re-occupy the buildings left intact after the demolition of the housing area of the social centre that took place during the night of 29th May 2021.
After a moment’s exploration, we rolled up our sleeves to start the work of putting the place back in order and cleaning up. The idea was to put life back into the place and make it accessible from outside, and a solidarity gathering of about fifty people in the square opposite gave us the right encouragement. Continue reading Lugano,Switzerland – Eppur la nostra idea [And yet our idea]…
Italy – Issue 3 of CALIGINE is out
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The third issue of Caligine, negative words among the bleak colours of reality, is available.
This issue was DIY printed with a mimeograph and silk-screen cover, 36 A4 pages
To write to us and receive copies: caligine@riseup.net; CALIGINE, Sobborgo Valzania 27, 47521 Cesena (FC)
4 euros per copy; 3 euros for 5 or more copies
CONTENTS
Surplus
Elements of insurrection between virus and digital society
Queer negativity chapter II
War on the state: the subject of desire
Workshop of images
1984, in dissolution
Vegetate
However, going…
Italy – Updates concerning Mauro Rossetti Busa
Mauro Busa tells us that since November his mail has been under censorship again up until 22nd May, subject to extension. He is continuing to do hunger strikes (he also writes about self-harming, for example cuts, but it is not clear whether this refers to the present or the past) in order to be transferred near Lucca so that he can see his family whom he hasn’t seen since 2018.
For anyone who wants to send him money, he says prison rules have changed and it is no longer possible to send money orders but only bank transfers:
Addressed to “Direzione del carcere di Ascoli Piceno”
IBAN: IT36D0760113500000012503637
BIC SWIFT Per bonifici – BPPIITRRXXX:
Rossetti Busa Mauro, nato a Lucca il 6/1/1958
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Rossetti Busa Mauro
C.C: Ascoli PIceno
via dei meli, 218
36100
Ascoli Piceno
Italia
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Italy – News from the prison of Spini di Gardolo: beatings and abuse
During a gathering outside the prison of Spini di Gardolo on 9th January 2022, we managed to communicate with some prisoners and here is what they told us about the current situation in the prison, which the director and the local authorities take great care not to make known.
A prisoner asked us to deliver to the prison guarantor (for the PAT, A. Menghini) his version of an episode which a prison union recently passed off in the media as “assault on the guards”. The prisoner maintained he was brutally beaten by the guards, who later also seized his crutches. After the beating he wasn’t adequately examined or taken to hospital.
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Sardinia,Italy – On Operation “Sibilla” by Sardinian Anarchists
On Operation “Sibilla”, from Sardinia
[Note: all the repressive measures inflicted on comrades struck by operation Scintilla were annulled by the court of review on 16th December 2021]
SEMPRI AINNATIS!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE RECALCITRANT!
“…The use being made of the charge of incitement, whether employed “purely” or as “garnishing” to other charges, is significant because it is aimed at breaking the link between revolutionary action and the propaganda of ideas that it inspires and supports, so as to push us to a watered-down adjustment in our convictions and our modes of expression…”
(Vetriolo, issue 6)
With these few lines we want to express all our solidarity and closeness to the anarchist comrades arrested and investigated following the umpteenth investigation from Perugia prosecutors which takes the name of “Operation Sibilla” this time.
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concerned about them.Then they came to disqualify doctors who doubted the anti-pandemic health protocols established by the government. But these doctors do not appear regularly on TV programs, they have no reputation, so very few are concerned about them.