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Wednesday, May 27 in Piazza Dante, Verona, there was is disgraceful and unacceptable.
am 22.00. Like every Wednesday for a while 'to this part, the square fills with
life. Girls and boys, citizens, tourists and passers
meet and spontaneously in the streets to stop
drink a beer, chat, play, sing .. Want to
rain in the afternoon someone who has grown fat and lazy,
want for the match in the Champions League, there is a little 'less people than usual: we
little more than a hundred people. As always, the atmosphere is pretty relaxed. At about 23:45
are in square four municipal police cars
to identify and punish two boys who were at that time
drumming. After several minutes of heated discussion
, the situation returns to calm. Part
a spontaneous collection to help the two to cover the amount needed to pay the fine
. Someone commented ironically the intervention of agents, other
chatting serenely ignoring its presence, the other
draw with colored chalk. The tension quickly fades
back and everything quiet. Despite this the four flying
remain camped in the square for another forty minutes. Engine running, headlights bet. On either side
agents walk back and forth nervously.
with them to monitor the situation, there are assistant chief, deputy chief of the Digos
, an unknown number of agents with radios and cameras.
the growing curiosity of some guy who asks them about the meaning of their presence
, a policeman decides to respond: "These are
orders, if we are ready to upload." The voice bouncing in
square but it seems a simple provocation. Nobody gives him much
weight. It is 'normal'. Some
minutes later, something happens that is unbelievable. Around 0:30
to disengage from their desks, gloves, hands, 6 / 7
brigade led by deputy commander. Goes straight to
a corner of the square where you find that a "criminal" is
strumming a guitar in the company of a friend. So much noise that no one in the square
it is practically realized. But officials continue
implacable and threatening to encircle the boy became aware of their arrival
, stunned, quickly goes off.
is applied to the order in which the mayor
prohibits the use of musical instruments after 22.00.
front of all and everyone realized the absurdity
of a measure which in the name of the public peace is to hit a guy who certainly is not bothering anyone, so that the sound of his guitar
is the constant noise of the square. Spontaneously, some friends
comes close to understanding what is going on. The traffic policemen are now threatening
asking for documents to anyone who ask them
word.
Many refuse to do it clearly does not see any infringement on their part
.
They did nothing more than a few questions. All of a sudden
agents, taking the musician caught in a vise, start
shoving to get rid of the knot of friends and curious that it has created around
and approach to flying. Someone
is thrown to the ground amid protests of the many. E 'chaos.
matter of a minute from behind the prefecture
arrive in Piazza Dante 3 / 4 of the riot vans and a car of the policemen, who apparently were waiting for the signal located nearby. From
trucks down with helmets and batons in their hands a dozen
cops who immediately launched into my colleagues in the municipal Waving at random. In the square is panic, raise cries of fear and denunciation. We try to determine whether there is over half a friend, her friend. It cries out: "Shame!"
Swift and dragged behind the fighters flying two boys, two students.
One of these is affected more times to the chest, face,
pulled by the hair, slammed to the ground and then loaded onto a steering wheel
be accompanied with the other, the police station. Everything is
witnessed by dozens of people present
and is well documented in photos and several videos that were shot.
The time is not announced any charges. A girl cries. One of them is her boyfriend. Do not let it get close. In front of her a row of riot, traffic and agents of Digos.
In the square are all shocked by what they saw before their eyes. Fifty
decide to walk out together and reach the police station.
to expect and lined up a row of accelerated. It is now the 2.00.
The situation is surreal.
other boys to come to show their solidarity. Voices
imminent harm to the release of the two.
They are accused of resisting a public officer with aggravating
and refusal to provide documents, always aggravating. After about half an hour
friends can finally hold them again.
one is wearing any signs of blows: the back and side
marked by bruises, a swollen eye, an obvious "hole" in the head
caused by ripping up a lock of hair.
We think that these things can not happen in a country that says free.
It seems clear that in our cities in particular there is
a democratic emergency.
not let such things happen again.
Invite them all and all to participate in this Saturday, May 30
an event, a garrison noisy, loud, in Piazza Dante to publicly denounce the physical and psychological violence endured by many young students and free citizens Wednesday night, a regrettable
behavior of law enforcement, and bring to light
the absurdity of a policy blind, aggressive and authoritarian.
TO DEFEND AN AREA OF Social Inclusion 'A COMPARISON OF COLOR OF LIFE.
TO ORDER authoritarian repression.
TO BREAK THE SILENCE TO MUSIC TO WHICH YOU WANT ALL REDUCED
FORM OF EXPRESSION AND DISSENT IN THE CITY '.
Saturday, May 30 17.00
ALL AND ALL IN PIAZZA DANTE
Musicians, dancers, jugglers, free citizens and citizens, girls and boys,
students and students, grannies and grannies, mothers, fathers, children, girls
: respond united together with the dark comes to which social and cultural politicians of this city we are dragging.
let us go to the drum, guitar, harp, trumpet, accordion, violin
, pots and pans, bells, some kind of instrument.
Come to play and shout out our anger and our anger to the streets
.
Butel and Bute in the direction obstinate and contrary.
"With the sound of fingers
fighting a battle that takes us on the streets of people who know how to love"
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