‘No to NATO command in Florence’, over 600 march in procession

(ANSA) – FLORENCE, SEPTEMBER 21 – Over 600 demonstrators set off at 5 pm from Piazza Bartali in Florence for the protest march against the idea of ​​establishing a NATO command in the city. The march is peacefully crossing Viale Giannotti with flags, signs and banners against the war, NATO, and the Ddl 1660, and will move through the streets of the Gavinana neighborhood to arrive at the headquarters of the Cpa social center in Via Villamagna, the end of the demonstration. “Florence would then be a military target”, underlines Davide Pinelli, representative of the No NATO command committee neither in Florence nor elsewhere, according to whom “the Democratic Party speaks of peace only in an electoral sense” while “the missiles could fall anywhere, on the hospital, on a school, on the local market, on any house. These criminals are exposing us to this risk in this city, and they don’t want to talk about it because they are accomplices of the installation of the Command, they are accomplices of the alliance with NATO, they are accomplices and responsible for the third world war towards which they are leading us”. “Florence, a city of peace, cannot be so only from a distance – said Dmitrij Palagi, a city councilor for Sinistra Progetto Comune, who is taking part in the march -: it must also take a stand with respect to what concerns this territory. There is a NATO command hypothesized in Rovezzano, and we have not yet understood at what point we are with respect to its activation. This lack of information is also a problem of transparency. Whatever one thinks about the hypothesis of a NATO command, we have once again accessed the documents, we have once again asked a question, we have also filed a motion to ensure that the city council votes the same thing that the council of Quartiere 2, which is the one concerned, has already voted, that is, no NATO command in Rovezzano”. (ANSA).