Free Trieste

GET RID OF THE LEADERS OF THE FREE TRIESTE MOVEMENT – THE PUBLIC REQUEST OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF SILVIO BERLUSCONI’s PDL (PARTITO DELLE LIBERTÀ – PARTY OF FREEDOMS).

 

On Sunday, September 15th [2013] took place a huge demonstration celebrating the 66th Trieste independence day. After the event, it was impossible for the city to remain the same. It was hard not seeing the thousands of citizens who marched in the streets, demanding the end of Italy’s simulation of sovereignty over the present-day Free Territory of Trieste – FTT.

 

The people of the FTT stand firm claiming their rights, as established with the 1947 Treaty of Peace with Italy. And Italy, which simulates its sovereignty over it, trampling on all  principles of international law, is not willing to stop. Hence its attack, with an intimidating campaign worth a dictatorial regime, which involves all the institutions of this Italian Republic, now showing its worst side.

 

This violent, intimidating campaign uses all media, strictly controlled by those loyal to Italy. The only exception being independent newspaper La Voce di Trieste, a stronghold of free information in a State under attack.

 

And it is exactly this fearless newspaper that denounces, in spite of the many false information spread by monopolist local newspaper Il Piccolo, funded by the Italian Ministry of foreign policy, the lie of the United Nations siding against the Free Trieste Movement due to the alleged improper use of the symbols of the UN during its demonstrations.

 

The news, covering a full page, is an article signed by Pier Paolo Garofalo: “Using the symbols of the UNO is illegal”. Next to it there is an interview to Italian officer of the UNRIC Fabio Graziosi, claiming he had expressed political  views against the Free Trieste Movement, as well as threats of legal actions to be brought forward by the Italian Ministry of foreign policy.

 

Plain false. La Voce di Trieste, denouncing the seriousness of such facts, contacted the director and vice director of the UNRIC in Bruxelles: they both confirm that their representative had never expressed those views. Il Piccolo published false information to involve the UN involved in the actions against Free Trieste.

 

It is a scandal, an unbelievable, unacceptable scandal.

But there is more. In the same article, the local newspaper published the harsh declarations of the Prefect and Commissioner of the Italian Government in Trieste, Francesca Adelaide Garufi, against Free Trieste and against the citizens who partecipate to the 15 September demonstration. According to the representative of the provisional Italian government:

 

  “… The criteria used is to take action only when there are grounds for individual prosecution, therefore whenever the denial of the authority of the State became ground for individuals to breach the law. But if the situation escalates, other means shall be deemed appropriate”.

 

Also, the Commissioner of the Italian Government praised the behavior of Italian magistracy because, according to her, it is answering “punctually and correctly” to the citizens of Trieste who deny Italian sovereignty over their State.

 

Note that, to this day, such “punctual and correct” answers of Italian magistrates (which a prefect and Commissioner of the Government should not be involved with under the Italian Constitution…) were rejection, without reasons, of exceptions regarding jurisdiction. Only a few times the Courts discussed such exceptions in the merit, and their decisions were vitiated by falsehood, because they willingly misinterpreted both the contents of the Treaties and their very interpretation. Indeed, there is an instrument to interpret Treaties: it is the Vienna Convention on the law of Treaties. Certainly not some Court’s own will.

 

Except Italian Courts adopt “political ” interpretations which, as such, are mere school doctrines without legal value. Sometimes they just copy other, equally illegal decisions (eg. the ordinance of judges Morvay, Spadaro, Pacilio in Civil Proceeding 1888/13 and judgment No. 400/2013 of the Regional Administrative Court for Friuli Venezia Giulia) .

 

The “Garufi views” are especially clear given the threats to public officers who, accordino to her, being payed by Rome should not dare to join demonstration for the FTT. This is why the direct blow hit assessor Fabio Longo of the Municipality of Muggia, who participated – as a citizen! – to the 15 September demonstration along with other representatives of the institutions.

 

Mr Longo is an “inconvenient” politician, for he is independent, a white sheep between the black representatives of the system of corruption that the State of Italy fuels in its “dear” Trieste. This is why they want to get rid of him.

 

Commissioner Garufi gave a lecture of reverted law, on the other side, her first action here in Trieste was confirming, with an illegal decree, the suspension of the Free Port regime in the Northern sector of the port of Trieste, as well as allowing it to be opened, paving the way for its illegal transformation in an urban area. Which is exactly the goal of a powerful cartel of real estate businessmen under anti-mafia question, whose goal is to realize a huge, private housing and building speculation eliminating the precious free zones of the so-called “Old Port”.

 

All of this in breach of UNSC Resolution S/RES/16 (1947) and in breach of the Treaty of Peace of the same year, both establishing the inviolability of the International Free Port of Trieste and the independence of the City. The same legal instruments establish also the citizens of the FTT and their rights. But, despite being the Commissioner of the Italian Government, she calls it all “scrap paper”. All of it: including the rule of law.

 

Finally, this week of propaganda ends with the “panicking system” releasing the statements of political parties, those who feel the loss of control the most after decades of unpunished crimes. Again, their violent expressions are interesting, but not surprising. So, following the line of the calls for repression of Commiar Garufi, we see the representatives of center-right parties demanding “ltaly must put an end to the FTT”. A drastic end, apparently.

 

Here we get to “fortune teller” Piero Camber (PDL). For context: he has just ended his long political career with a luxurious Italian pension (a lifetime EUR 3.159 each month, and he is only 56 years old!), and is  the brother of former senator Giulio Camber (who, in his long political career, did also belong to the “Lista per Trieste”). Piero Camber is a perfect representative of the politicians who succumbed Trieste to Italy’s abuses for their own privileges.

 

Well, to Mr. Camber the citizens of Trieste who refuse to pay undue Italian taxes shall live a nightmare: “Equitalia is merciless. Slow but inexorable, it won’t stop”. So says the well-behaved Italian nationalist politician.

 

Merciless Equitalia, which is destroying the economy and social tissue of bordering Italy, ruining millions and driving many to suicide, on the other side, here in Trieste is facing the legitimate opposition of the citizens who appeal to the Treaty of Peace (art. 5 Annex X) are willing to pay taxes, but only for their own State. Which again, is not Italy. Italy cannot tax them, as it cannot tax, for example, the Swiss population in Ticino just because many people speak Italian there.

 

As for the theft of the Free Territory of Trieste’s State assets, committed in the name an on behalf of the Republic of Italy, there shall be an international trial to estimate the actual entity of the damages caused to Trieste and to its International Free Port, but also to the rights of all Countries and their enterprises over it.  Even just recovering the Properties of State, the use of their revenues – or the damages caused by their loss – and of its assets illegally taken by the State of Italy, we are talking about several thousands of billions of Euro. Enough to justify the nervousness of the representatives of Italian institutions.

 

Nervousness that drives them to define the FTT as a “Police State” (Paolo Rovis PDL) who maybe mixes it up with the provisional administration of the Italian Government, which breaches the law but is very much appreciated by Italian politicians, or even – this is far worse – someone advocates for Italian secret services to take action and get rid of the heads of the Free Trieste Movement, as did, with no shame, another representative of the PDL, Regional Councillor Bruno Marini, in a disgusting interview released to Il Piccolo (again) on 21 September.

 

He did even attack me as an individual, calling me “a constant danger” and, even, the representative of the Italian political caste said:

“I liked the statement of prefect Garufi to Il Piccolo. I think our services should take action…”.

 

We won’t give up to such threats, we cannot give up to the ruthless actions of the people who trample on our rights: we shall stand for freedom. We are the people of the Free Territory of Trieste.

Translated from blog “Ambiente e Legalità” – “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante