May 11, 2024 6:28 pm
Even the cartoonist Zerocalcare joined the protest against Israel: “They can’t ignore us”
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Zerocalcare also then joined the pro-Palestine protest outside the entrance to the Turin Book Fair. The demonstrators – around a hundred – tried shortly before to cross the barriers at the entrance to the Show and were blocked by the police in riot gear.
Zerocalcare: “We cannot ignore the protest”
“On this side and on the other side of the hall gates we are a large network of people who work at the hall and who could not ignore this protest that was happening outside. The people who care about the Palestinian issue cannot fail to be here, one space that talks about culture and current events cannot close its eyes to History with a capital H, because we will have to respond for a long time to the massacre that is underway in Palestine, the most normal thing in the world for these topics to be discussed in a space like the Salon”. This was stated by Zerocalcare, who left the Salon to go and talk to the pro-Palestine demonstrators in front of the entrance gates.
The situation returned to calm between demonstrators and the police, after just over a dozen activists of the over two hundred in attendance had tried to enter, but were rejected by the police. Some protesters have been identified, including some militants from the Askatasuna social center who yesterday would have been among the participants in the General States of Birth.
Five demonstrators in a delegation to the Book Fair
A delegation of five people among the pro-Palestine demonstrators who participated in the demonstration outside the Lingotto Fiere was authorized to enter the Book Fair. A group of workers who went out with the cartoonist Zerocalcare declared in the meantime that they had suspended the work to give their support to the demonstration taking place outside the book fair. “Many people support us in there – one of the five demonstrators admitted inside by the police as a delegation from the garrison said as he left -. The voice of Palestine is also in there. There is also a lot of solidarity from within. This flag gives us can unite everyone as it has been doing for months, this gives us the strength to continue because we are on the right side of history.”
