-------- Original Message -------- Subject: (en) URGENT - Italy: Police raids on COBAS Confederation (it) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:30:50 -0400 (EDT) From: nestor mcnab <nestor_mcnab at yahoo.co.uk> Reply-To: a-infos-en at ainfos.ca To: gshalif at netvision.net.il
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SERIOUS ACT OF PROVOCATION BY THE JUDICIARY AGAINST THE COBAS CONFEDERATION
This morning, 31st May 2002, in Taranto, the police carried out a series of searches against union offices and members on the orders of investigating magistrates, in particular against the COBAS Confederation. At present (12.00) with the police action still ongoing, it seems that 9 conrades are under house arrest with no possibility of communication with the outside world. Computers and documents have been confiscated form the Cobas offices. Among those arrested are some who had made reports against police violence following the events of Naples and Genoa last year.
Most seriously of all is the charge which has been pinned on those arrested - they are charged under Article 270, ie. on charges of "subversive association", which means that they are not being charged with any particular criminal act, but as a result of their political activity - their presence in the social struggles and those of workers and against war - activities always carried out in thye full light of day.
The COBAS Confederation denounces this most serious act of intimidation which is nothing less than a fascist pincer movement against the union and political independance of the COBAS and all in the radical protest movement. We offer our total solidarity to those comrades who have been detained and interrogated and the COBAS Confederatrion demands their immediate release and invites all workers, anticapitalists and democrats to mobilize to the fullest extent for the immediate removal of these hateful and unconstitutional repressive measures.
For the COBAS Confederation, National Spokesperson Pino Giampietro
[trans. NMcN for Ainfos]
===== In solidarity,
Nestor
http://www.geocities.com/nestor_mcnab/
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