WHO DEVASTATES IS THE STATE
WHO PLUNDERS IS CAPITAL
At dawn on Thursday 20th November operation” Ipogeo” orchestrated by the Prosecutor’s Office of Catania, was set in motion with raids in Catania, Palermo, Messina, Siracusa and Bari. Three of the sixteen comrades under investigation are in prison. The allegations against them concern what took place in Catania last May 17 against the Decreto Sicurezza. [Security Decree]. Disruption of public service, defacement, bodily harm, robbery and devastation and looting, are the main charges against the sixteen comrades.
The retrieval of ‘devastation and looting’, a crime introduced with the Rocco Code during the twenty years of fascism and dusted off and cleared through customs from the G8 of Genoa onwards, is entirely strategic. Its extreme ambiguity allows it to be applied in the most disparate contexts, making it a perfect deterrent for marches and demonstrations that have no intention of re-entering the conciliation enclosures, those not content with mere walks and indeed express a solid political antagonism in the streets. Moreover, the severity of the sentences (from eight to fifteen years) that this charge foresees makes it an ideal means for terrorising and repressing conflictuality. To make the picture even bleaker it contributes to the wide use of the device of complicity, also widely extended to a good number of the comrades under investigation in operation Ipogeo. It is an article of the Penal Code that strikes whoever is considered materially or morally complicit in the charges, with the same sentence.
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