A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #11-26 - 91 Arrested for a Bouquet of Flowers. Tests of Dictatorship in Rome (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On Sunday, as we are about to close this newspaper, some very serious 
news arrives from Rome. Police have arrested 91 people who were 
intending to commemorate Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro Mercogliano. They 
had just placed flowers on a pole near the site where the two died ten 
days ago. Surrounded by a massive police force, they were loaded onto 
buses and taken to police headquarters. ---- Preventive detention was 
applied, a measure provided for by the recent security decree for those 
suspected of being dangerous during public demonstrations. Its 
application, however, should be based on concrete evidence (weapons, 
specific criminal history). In the previous days, the Rome police 
commissioner had banned the commemoration because it was "in conflict 
with the values of civil and democratic coexistence, given the 
ideological inclination of anarchism against the established order," as 
stated in the official statement.

The Prime Minister has taken responsibility for the operation and, 
speaking of the latest security decree, states: "It does not serve to 
limit the freedom to demonstrate, as some left-wingers claimed. On the 
contrary, it serves to ensure that demonstrations are conducted peacefully."

The facts themselves demonstrate the lies used by the authorities.

To guarantee the freedom to demonstrate, they stop people peacefully 
bringing flowers to a commemoration. The police headquarters claims that 
to defend the values of civil and democratic coexistence, any 
manifestation of anarchism must be prevented.

What is the police commissioner afraid of? Why does he not want 
protesters to approach the site where Sara Ardizzone and Alessandro 
Mercogliano tragically disappeared?

The authorities' lies affirm a profound truth: the governments of 
so-called democratic states are attempting to establish totalitarian 
regimes in which not only are the freedoms to express one's opinions 
limited, but any thought that does not conform to the values affirmed by 
the government is actually repressed. The government responds to its own 
failure with repression and authoritarianism. In 1922, the grandparents 
of many who now sit on the benches of the majority outlawed opposition, 
starting with the anarchist movement.

We must not retreat a single step to defend freedom, ours and everyone's.

The Editorial Staff

https://umanitanova.org/91-fermati-per-un-mazzo-di-fiori-prove-di-dittatura-a-roma/
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