“Laura Zorzini is a 29-year-old activist of the anti-speciesist movement Rebellion Animale, committed to climate justice and animal liberation since adolescence. She has always practiced civil resistance through exclusively nonviolent methods.
Last Saturday 30 March, at the request of the city police commissioner, Digos went to her home in Trieste to give her the notice of special public security surveillance lasting 2 years because it was depicted as “devoted to the commission of crimes that offend or endanger public safety and tranquility.”
On the part of the movement, there is an awareness that this episode is part of a repressive framework which for years now has begun to challenge a provision that comes from the Anti-Mafia Code against any form of dissent little appreciated by the police commissioner on duty.
The special surveillance, established in the fascist period by Mussolini in 1931 and then modified in 2011, is in fact characterized as a preventive measure which has a long tradition of being a repressive instrument towards those who criticize the status quo. In fact, it aims to tame (preventatively! – hence its unconstitutionality according to many jurists, see above all the reflections promoted by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms or ECHR) any criticism of the current system in any form which, according to the police commissioner, could be a prelude to criminal conduct.
In recent times, with the case of Marco Boba in 2021, the court of Turin – a city which is a real hub in the application of repressive measures, think of the students under house arrest after the student demonstrations or the sentences of the No Tav militants , in particular Giorgio Rossetti, who was also placed under special surveillance without reference to any crime in particular but due to his long history of militancy – seems to have characterized the alleged social danger of the writer as a real crime of opinion: although in verdict refers exclusively to his political commitment, the Prosecutor’s Office includes among the reasons to justify this request the back cover of his novel published six years earlier, in 2015, “Io non sono come voi” and his participation in Radio Blackout .
Thus Edgarda Maria Marcucci, known as Eddi, recalls the words pronounced by prosecutor Pedrotta regarding his “socially dangerous” conduct: «… and then you saw Marcucci, with his martial step, that aggressive gait…». Once again, no particular crime to be punished, but a past of militancy which sees her participating in the demands of the groups NoTav, Non Una Di Meno and since 2018 of the Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) in Rojava. And perhaps, even more serious in her case, as the author suggests in quoting the quotation mark above, a very serious infringement of a rule not explicitly reported in any penal code but no less ironclad for this reason: the patriarchal law.
From the No Tav militants, to those in solidarity with the Kurdish fighters, up to the nonviolent civil disobedients who militate for animal liberation, it is clear that the measure of special surveillance does not aim to punish any crime in particular but to suppress, in the name of public security which is instead increasingly police control, every head-on conflict with the institutions for a significant change in society.’ the managers report this in a note
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