In the past weeks several repressive incidents happened. The last of those has been the arrest of Patriza (Maria Grazia Cadeddu) and the eviction of the "Laboratorio Anarchico" squat in Milano on June 20th.
On June 20th in Florence and Turin houses were searched on direction of judge Alessandro Crin from Florence. The search warrant relates to "subversive association and call for crimes." In Pescare three siblings are investigated against, responsible public prosecutor: Antonio Marini. On June 20th, connected with Patrizia's arrest, several flats in Turin, Milano, Venezia, Bordighera, San Remo, and Cagliari are searched.
Patrizia was arrested on direction of GIP Enrico Tranfa following the petition of the public prosecutor Massimo Meroni. Patrizia is charged with "Possession of explosives and explosion in public." They investigate against some more persons for aiding and abetting to this.
In the first interview Patrizia repudiated to be the woman that delivered the letter of confession concerning the attack at Palazzo Marino on April 25th and was taken on video by the observing camera of the radio station Radio Popolare. Two colleagues of her are said to striked by Patrizia's strange behavior in the work-place. Additionally - this fact is from the squatters of the Laboratorio - a company from Rome offered a 10 millions Lira reward for those identifying the woman of the film.
Patrizia feels well. She cabled:
"Thank to all that had been encouraged enough to send me a telegram. I stand up for my activity in the anarchist movement lasting now for more than 20 years. I stand up for all fights from the 70's till today, fights that I pressed ahead with consequence. I stand up for the love for all comrades, inside and outside the jail. The entire Milano left likes to see me imprisoned to be sure that nobody will be an obstacle to their nowadays miserable acting. To put me in prison is in fact the only way to eliminate the Laboratorio Anarchico, the only place in Milano that is really antagonistic.
Don't care for that - when I am free again we'll take it all back. I love you all like I did all the time. I am calm and well-balanced. Those charging me want to erase my history as an anarchist, my history never accepting any compromises with the system. All the time for the anarchy."
Even it is not connected with the repressive and legal incidents it is remarkable that the squatters of Laboratorio Anarchico, that are on a sit-in since the eviction received not a single expression of solidarity by other local political structures (squats and centri sociale, collectives etc.) even though they were threaten to be evicted.
On July 1st the preliminary hearings in "Marini's investigation" were re-opened. The lawyers demanded to shorten the proceedings for some of the defendants. But Marini refused as he do not want to "fraction" the proceedings. Relating to the defendants arrested abroad an uniform dealing with all involved in the proceedings was demanded, but that was rejected too, because they don't want to postpone the verdicts that long.
Two arrested anarchists, Jean Weir and Christo Stratigopolus, spoke.
Jean outlined some important steps in their life when she approached to anarchist ideas years before in Rome, on a way excluding any armed organisation (in a sense Marini describes it) and confirmed that in fact this is a proceeding against anarchist ideals as such even if Marini claims the opposite.
Christos declared in a thorough explanation that there is no insurrectional organisation. He explained in some personal analyses what it means to organise horizontally and informally and to bring together the insurrectional method and the masses. He said that all those elements are stated in a brochure summing up some speeches of a conference held by some anarchists in Greece in '93. (...) (This brochure is mentioned in Marco Camenisch's article too. It is planned to publish it in English in the next time.)
The lawyers plan to inform the press that several deadlines have not been fulfilled which, in other proceedings, led to the release of the defendants. (...) On July 12th the lawyers will speak once more, and one can prepare for the hearings finish on July 15th and 17th: they are in a hurry, our inquisitors, as they fear the petitions for release might pass.
And, like ever, not a single word in a newspaper.