TRIESTE: AN IMPORTANT COMPLAINT

FREE TRIESTE ADDRESSES THE ABUSES OF ITALIAN MAGISTRATES

AGAINST THE FREE TERRITORY OF TRIESTE

Please note: this entry is about a 2013 complaint. Ever since, Free Trieste’s researches revealed many more aspects of the question of the Free Territory of Trieste.

In 2016, the Law Commission of the I.P.R. F.T.T. – International Provisional Representative of the Free Territory of Trieste has published an expertise that describes the status of the present-day FTT and of its international Free Port precisely and accurately. Read it HERE

In 2017, the Law Commission released a second expertise regarding the Italian legislation that ratifies and enforces the legal obligations of both the Italian State and the Italian Government respect to the present-day Free Territory of Trieste and the related obligations respect to all other States and the United Nations. Read it HERE

Free Trieste addressed a complaint to the UN and its Member States. The document is about the ongoing violations of the fundamental rights of the people of the Free Territory of Trieste, committed by the Italian judiciary’s local representatives.

Indeed, it is important document, in English, that openly denounces the simulation of Italian sovereignty over the present-day Free Territory of Trieste. The questions covered regard legislation, representation, taxation, the arbitrary extension of Italian conscription to the FTT, and the breaches of the Slovene community’s rights.

Another important topic, related to all of the above, is citizenship: the people of Trieste received Italian citizenship by force. In other words, they were outright stripped of the right to opt for their own citizenship as established under the 1947 Italian Peace Treaty (Annex VI, art. 6).

1. Italian citizens who were domiciled on June 10, 1940, in the area comprised within the boundaries of the Free Territory, and their children born after that date, shall become original citizens of the Free Territory with full civil and political rights. Upon becoming citizens of the Free Territory they shall lose their Italian citizenship.

[Follows an abstract of the original 2013 document.

Since the authors and translators are unknown, for the purposes of the recording, a synthesis is published instead. The author of the synthesis and related commentary is the same person who authors this entry’s translation – SV]

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Synthesis:

The document begins dating the beginning of the stand for Trieste’s rights on December 2011, when Roberto Giurastante first questioned Italian jurisdiction over Trieste – LINK

Follows a note about the end of Italian sovereignty over Trieste (art. 21, 1947 Italian Peace Treaty) – LINK

Free Trieste recognizes the 1954 Memorandum of Understanding of London. The MOU places the Free Territory of Trieste “the city, its international Free Port and the surrounding area” under the Italian Government’s “civil administration” – LINK

[However, in 2013 the Movement wrongly assumed the breaches of the aforementioned mandate as equal to an annexation. This is disproved by the law. See note at the beginning of this entry].

Follows a list of the aforementioned breaches: the disregard of Trieste’ separate legislation and taxation, the failure to exempt Trieste from the payment of the Italian public debt. Furthermore, there are mentions to the questions of military service. Finally, Free Trieste addresses the international Free Port of Trieste’s neglect. [This is an especially serious problem: the 1954 MOU binds the Italian Government to maintain Trieste’s international Free Port in general accordance with arts. 1 – 20 of Annex VIII of the 1947 Peace Treaty].

In view of the above, the people are seeking the re-establishment of the rule of law. Free Trieste falsely equals Italy to some “occupying country”. [Again a political opinion, disproved by the law. See note above].

Free Trieste addresses local Courts;

The press has censored the Movement’s legal battle;

Furthermore, the Movement criticizes the U.N.’s inaction, considering that it is Trieste’s international guarantor. [In truth, the Security Council is Trieste’s guarantor. Furthermore, in 1983, the U.N. clarified that an intervention requires a Member State’s request – LINK];

[The document fails to mention the Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom. They are vested with the primary administration mandate over Trieste. Also, they have sub-entrusted the Italian Government with temporary civil administration over the present-day Free Territory of Trieste. This means it is easier for them to find a diplomatic solution than it is for the U.N.]

Finally, the abstract ends underlining that local “Italian authorities” refuse to take the requests of the people seriously, often crossing into intimidations.

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It is worth mentioning that Free Trieste is going to update this dossier (every three months circa).

In particular, the Movement is paying attention to the most egregious actions against the rights of Trieste’s people, about the repression of their legal claims, the judiciary’s decisions against the Movement’s stand for rules-based international order.

Free Trieste is reporting to international authorities the authors of judgments against the law.

This is indeed a stand for law and order, in the face of repression.

Translated from blog “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante