On July 9th, our comrade Juan was sentenced to 28 years in prison, with another three years of supervised release, on charges of an explosive attack with terrorist intent on a Lega Nord headquarters, in Treviso (Italy).
A few days earlier, the Court had reclassified an attack on a Carabinieri barracks in Fossano (Italy) as a ‘political massacre’ (a crime punishable by life imprisonment) for which anarchist comrades Anna and Alfredo had been convicted on appeal. In the meantime, Alfredo was transferred to 41 bis, in Sassari, Sardinia (Italy): a prison regime of total isolation, a form of torture aimed at bending the prisoner to abjuration, repentance, dissociation, and the renunciation of his own identity and revolutionary path.
The disproportionate sentences (essentially for life) and the application of 41 bis constitute an unprecedented attack on the anarchist movement.
They represent the attempt of the Italian state to end the game with an area that has remained subversive and revolutionary, which decades of investigations and arrests have failed to break.
SOLIDARITY WITH JUAN, ANNA, ALFREDO
AGAINST THE TORTURE OF 41 BIS, FREEDOM FOR ALL
THE TERRORIST IS THE STATE
Knowing the suffering of our comrades and their punishments of which we cannot see the end, causes us pain and anger but only strengthens our convictions:
As always we will continue on the road of struggle, of permanent conflict, of direct action, but from today with one more reason.
Anarchists
From: Kontrapolois