Stecco sentenced in the first instance to three years and six months in prison (Trento, 21 March 2025)
Yesterday, at the court of Trento, the first instance trial against our friend and comrade Stecco took place, accused of having supported the fugitive, his friend and comrade Juan and of having forged identity documents. Stecco was sentenced – with an abbreviated procedure – to 3 years and 6 months in prison (a higher sentence than that requested by the prosecutor himself). This sentence definitely seems like a warning: anyone who helps fugitives will pay dearly. Yesterday’s conviction is paired with the truly impressive deployment of men and means that led to the arrest of Stecco himself. On this last aspect, as emerges from the folders of the “Diana” operation, a summary will come out of what is useful for comrades to know about the enemy’s weaponry.
Outside the court, a solidarity rally was held for Juan and Stecco, in particular against the umpteenth imposition of videoconferencing.
This is the flyer distributed:
A miscalculation
That’s your secret, Butch. They continue to underestimate you.
Pulp fiction
Today our friend and comrade Stecco (in prison in Sanremo) is on trial here in Trento because he is accused of having fabricated false documents for another friend and comrade of ours, Juan (in prison in Terni), when the latter was on the run. The thing in itself does not require great words. If Stecco fabricated those documents, he did well, because they were used to avoid prison for a wanted comrade. Escaping the political police is a necessity that has always accompanied those who fight for freedom and social justice. The difference is that today – with the end of the “political asylum” on which exiles and opponents have been able to count for decades, and the drastic increase in forms of technological control – it is increasingly difficult to achieve this. Once introduced, surveillance devices can affect anyone (as we have seen, on a mass scale, with the green pass), so it is necessary not to be fooled by the pretexts with which they are justified.
Today Stecco will not be physically in the courtroom because he has been forced to videoconference. The latter, once reserved for prisoners in 41 bis and then for those accused of “terrorism”, from Covid onwards has been extended to practically all prisoners. In this way, the detainee cannot see friendly faces in court, cannot defend himself adequately (the discussion with the lawyer takes place only by telephone) and can only have his say if the judge does not decide to press a button and cut the audio and video connection. Not even the Inquisition had managed to make the bodies and voices of the accused disappear. Saving on transfer costs from prison to court is a blatant pretext: there are prisoners who are taken to other prisons equipped with videoconferencing links instead of being taken directly to the courts in the same region. If then – this is the trend – in the future sentences will be established by algorithms, machines will judge humans who will wait for their fate behind screens: an undoubted saving of time and paper. Totalitarianism never comes all at once, nor has there ever been a power that claims to pursue openly evil ends. War is promoted in the name of “peace”; repression is called “security”; Anyone who rebels is a “terrorist”.
However, there is one aspect that the State, bosses and technocrats have not come to terms with: the human variant. This is expressed in a thousand ways: the bodies of the prisoners who take the space with protests and riots; deserters who refuse to become cannon fodder; the defeatists who sabotage the war machine; workers who are on strike; the Palestinian people who resist. The Palestinian prisoner Anan Yaeesh (in prison together with Juan), accused of “terrorism” by an Italian state complicit in the Israeli genocidal system, wrote in a moving statement that he feels privileged, locked in a cell, compared to his people forced to live among the rubble, under the bombs, without water or electricity; A people imprisoned in a high-tech concentration camp, but which the Israeli overwhelming power is unable to tame.
If the Palestinian partisans are “terrorists”, then it becomes a source of pride to be investigated for “terrorism”, as the political police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office are doing for the umpteenth time against anarchists from Trentino (including Stecco and Juan).
The mistake of the powerful is to think that the spirit of revolt and the human gesture of rejection can be predicted and prevented by the immense computing power of their machines.
Freedom for Juan and Stecco
No more videoconferencing, we want to see our comrades in the courtroom!
With Gaza in our heart, against war and repression
anarchists
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