A-Infos (en) Italy, Livorno: On trial for the banner "Truth and justice for Fares" - Solidarity with the defendants (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Almost three years after the death of Fares Shgater during a police 
check in Livorno, the only trial - now almost concluded - is that 
against those who demonstrated for truth and justice. ---- The Livorno 
Anarchist Federation and the Libertarian Anarchist Collective demand the 
acquittal of the accused and return to demanding truth and justice for 
Fares Shgater. ---- The last hearing of the trial following the 
demonstration on 26 April 2021 which called for truth and justice for 
Fares Sghater, who died in Livorno at the age of 25 during a police 
check, drowned in the night between 24 and 25 April 2021 in the Fosso 
Reale in front of the Fortezza Nuova. The trial sees two participants in 
the demonstration accused, including one of our comrades.

He cannot die during a police check. In these three years the 
institutions and the official media have no longer given any response to 
the request for truth and justice forcefully advanced by the 
demonstrations that were held in the city immediately after the death of 
this young man. Regardless of the specific facts, it is clear that the 
racist policies established in Italy by successive governments over the 
last thirty years have created a situation in which a foreign citizen 
risks, during a police check, that his life suddenly plummets as a 
result of a repatriation order, an arrest, detention in a CPR, but also 
blackmail, harassment and violence on the part of the agents.

The story of Fares' death was soon forgotten and removed. The only thing 
that seems to have progressed in recent years is the trial of those who 
demonstrated to shed light on a death that had shaken the city. A 
demonstration that managed to express on a political level the anger 
that Fares' family, friends and compatriots felt. The city right, 
confirming its provocative character, its racism and class contempt, 
organized, with the sole aim of stoking tensions, a 
counter-demonstration a few meters from where the demonstration for 
Fares was held. The latter was then held without any particular 
incidents, so much so that a delegation of demonstrators was even 
received by the police commissioner.

The response of the institutions, however, was to put the demonstrators 
on trial. A few days after the demonstration, a young compatriot of 
Fares was stopped, locked in a CPR and repatriated to his native 
country, Tunisia. For all we know he may not even be aware that he is 
being charged in a trial in Livorno. The other defendant is one of our 
comrades, accused of having collaborated in writing a banner that read 
"Truth and justice for Fares, No racism, No police violence" and, in one 
corner, "acab".

A trial for contempt of a public official on the charge of having 
collaborated in writing a banner would almost seem ridiculous if this 
trial did not call into question freedom of expression. An unacceptable 
censorship which, in the event of a conviction, would become a real case 
of repression.

Livorno Anarchist Federation
Libertarian Anarchist Collective

https://collettivoanarchico.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/03/a-processo-per-lo-striscione-verita-e-giustizia-per-fares-solidarieta-agli-imputati/
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