Whereas the minister Matteo Salvini in Trento he returns to vow “development websites by 2024 for the Bridge over the Strait”, his folks in Parliament assault the No Bridge motion.
New aggravating circumstances and elevated penalties
With an modification introduced to the safety invoice by deputy Igor Iezzi, at present beneath dialogue within the Constitutional Affairs fee, the League proposes the inclusion of a brand new aggravating circumstance for crimes in opposition to public security which appears tailor-made to the various community of activists who’ve been protesting in opposition to the maxi work for months. The brand new case offers for a rise “from one third to 2 thirds of the sentence” within the case wherein “the violence or risk is dedicated with the goal of stopping the development of a public work or strategic infrastructure”.
The modification would combine paragraph 1 letter b which goals to punish one more new crime in opposition to public security aimed toward prosecuting what the federal government defines as “speech terrorism” that’s, not solely those that “procure or possess materials containing directions on the preparation or use of explosive supplies, firearms or different weapons, dangerous or harmful chemical or bacteriological substances”, but in addition “another method or methodology for finishing up acts of violence with the goal of terrorism, or of sabotage of public places of work and companies or companies of public necessity”. A really imprecise definition based on jurists, which particularly beneath the umbrella of sabotage might additionally embody acts of peaceable resistance or propaganda supplies that invite them to be carried out.
Bonelli: “The League desires to intimidate those that protest”
The chief of the Greens and AVS parliamentarian Angelo Bonelli was outraged and had began a authorized battle in opposition to the bridge for a while with complaints. “The League desires to ship to jail those that protest in opposition to the Bridge over the Strait of Messina. That is affirmation of the authoritarian and repressive flip in direction of those that dissent from the loopy insurance policies of this authorities. Iezzi’s modification is meant to intimidate the official protest in opposition to the bridge and if it have been authorized, anybody who might threaten the blocking of infrastructure works could be jailed for 4 to twenty years even with photographs or symbolic acts. For many who protest there may be due to this fact a triple penalty in comparison with corruption and different severe crimes corresponding to theft and extra. We’re in a real democratic emergency.”
Anger and indignation among the many NoPonte
The information reached shortly within the circles of the No Ponte motion of the 2 shores, who didn’t take lengthy to learn it as a response to the big demonstration that passed off final Saturday within the streets of Villa San Giovanni. “Regime”, one feedback within the chat, “this reveals that they’re afraid”, one other factors out.
“Matteo Salvini continues the safety drift began with the safety decrees already in his first mandate as minister. Within the collective creativeness these have been measures completely associated to migration, however in actuality activists and commerce unionists have been additionally affected with a crackdown on highway blocks, pickets, freedom to exhibit and protest”, he observes Peppe Marra, regional director of USB and historic activist of the No Bridge motion. “The target – he underlines – is to aim to criminalize the No Bridge motion, which has at all times been a plural motion, and it’s paradoxical that it arrives just some days after the demonstration”:
Bridge over the Strait, new alarm: “The Calabrian pylon on the lively fault”
by Alessia Candito
5 thousand in Villa San Giovanni
Fifteen years after the final demonstration on the Calabrian shore, final Saturday over 5 thousand folks took to the streets of Villa San Giovanni to say No to the bridge over the Strait. Within the sq., a diverse galaxy of acronyms, committees, associations, from the historic No Ponte community to the scouts, from social facilities to the Waldensian church, passing via environmentalist associations, organized teams of residents of the 2 shores, events – Pd, Avs, 5S Motion, Communist Refoundation, Energy to the Individuals and the galaxy of radical left formations – commerce unions – Cgil and Usb – with out counting the mayors, not solely of Villa San Giovanni, however of your complete Calabrian Tyrrhenian coast.
“This can be a clear signal of Minister Salvini’s rising difficulties each from a technical viewpoint, with a venture that more and more proves to be leaking from all sides, and from the viewpoint of consensus – the activists thunder – It’s an act mindless which demonstrates the will of this authorities to go over the heads and can of the folks”.
Bridge over the Strait, the fault hazard identified for 2 centuries. The corporate: “All the things is okay”. However the consultants insist
by Alessia Candito
Mayor Caminiti: “Modification in opposition to the bulwarks of democracy”
The mayor of Villa San Giovanni Giusy Caminiti additionally rises up: “Nobody can stop or muzzle the free and democratic demonstration. Because of this it appears actually unattainable to me {that a} parliamentarian has introduced an modification of this nature: not in opposition to this or that, however in opposition to the cornerstones of the Italian Republic, democratic and anti-fascist – thunders Caminiti – Allow us to establishments, first, take care of rules and values: the intangible property of this nation are value immeasurably greater than any strategic work, as a result of the primary infrastructure is the assure of democratic freedoms and the indispensable rules of our constitutional constitution”.
Silence on the request for suspension of the Companies Convention
Anger and indignation are mounting on each side. “The assault by the use of modification” on the demonstrators comes whereas Salvini’s ministry continues to stay silent on the request for suspension of the companies convention formally introduced over every week in the past by the mayors of the 2 shores.
In mild of the extension granted to Strait of Messina to attempt to patch up the virtually 240 essential points highlighted by the Ministry of the Setting, the administrations ask to have the time mandatory to investigate the brand new paperwork and formalize their observations, in any other case they have to be delivered by 2 June. “However how can we categorical ourselves on research that in actual fact don’t but exist?”, is the query that comes from the territories affected by the maxi-work. Translation, not merely a technical query, however a political one: does the ministry intend to grant the administrations the identical rights and exemptions granted to its basic contractor?
Solely silence comes from Rome on the difficulty, whereas the echo of the brand new modification introduced within the fee which appears tailor-made to the No Ponte motion reverberates.
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– 2024-05-24 10:44:14
