Tav, 47 convictions and 6 acquittals for the clashes of 2011 – Il Sole 24 Ore

Tav, 47 convictions and 6 acquittals for the clashes of 2011 – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published January 27, 2015 at 15:45.
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TURIN – sentences from two months to four years and a half for 47 of the 53 defendants, activists No Tav movement, for crimes of violence, resistance, injuries and damage. In the early afternoon the judge Fifth Bosio has read the part of the judgment issued by the Court of Turin under the maxi process started about two years ago. Only six acquittals. The public has raised the cry “shame”, then those present began to sing Hello Beautiful. “This – yelled a defendant – is a political process. There bury with these convictions. ”

They talk about judgment heavy defense lawyers, who announced the appeal Appeal. Approximately 140 total years in prison decided by the court, were in total 190 years of imprisonment required by the prosecution. A maxi-trial, which was held for two years in the bunker of the prison Lorusso and Cotugno of Turin, with a hundred hearings and dozens of witnesses, agents and representatives of the police, and defense. testimony against, that trace the boundaries of the conflict that has consumed and that is consumed around the project of the High speed Valsusa.

The facts at the heart of the late Summer of 2011: June 27, with the evacuation of the camp in the shelter of Chimonte, the Free Republic of the Magdalene, and the guerrilla networks around the yard, 3 July. This was heavy fighting, with over 200 injured, and a trail of controversy and protests from the No Tav Movement for the violence of the agents.

For those facts, in January of 2012, there was a blitz in various Italian cities with the arrest of 24 people and the acquisition by the investigators of material for the investigation. now comes the decision of the Court which closes one of the most important legal proceedings borne by the No Tav Movement, which claims the right to resistance. symbolic acts, for the Movement, acts of organized violence for prosecutors in Turin.

Today’s sentence follows a few weeks the decision of the Court of Assizes of Turin against the four activists acquitted of terrorism but sentenced to three and a half years for the crimes of the manufacture and transport of weapons, and damage resistance.

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