Trieste March 29th, 2014 – the Free Trieste Movement presented a criminal complaint to both international and Italian guarantee authorities concerning systematic abuses that take place in Italy when it comes to the judiciary subtraction of children to their families and in placing adults in need under “supporting administrations” (a measure similar to conservatorship in the US) of adults in difficulty.
This complaint, the first of a kind, explains the problem through about 20 pages of legal analysis and actual facts, reporting that an “abnormal” concentration of abuses involving both categories of weak subjects occurs in Trieste.
In Italy, foster care and supporting administration are decided by a Giudice Tutelare with a simple decree, following a preliminary investigation without defense of the interests of the family before the court and, also, the majority of “supporting administrations” is not assigned to the free care of family members, but to a lawyers and the person involved is deprived of the right to administer their own properties, to decide about their medical treatment or to receive mail.
So, these are violations of fundamental and Constitutional rights of individuals and families, following from measures that are often unjustified and cause of severe sufferance up to suicide, as well as supporting two abnormal “markets”: the first one consists in the high health care costs that the Municipality pays for each child, the second one consists in the operations involving the real estates and other properties of the people under administration.
This is why both “abnormal markets”, which have a turnover of millions Euro, are covered by the guilty silence of the powerful categories involved and, Trieste alone, has 40 % of the Italian total of children given to foster care in the circuit of “shelter homes” (source: ISTAT) and over 4000 “supporting administrations” (more than half of these is in charge of lawyers).
The Free Trieste Movement – Movimento Trieste Libera has ala sent this report to European and international authorities since Italian laws cannot be directly extended to Trieste: under specific international instruments (the Treaty of Peace with Italy and the Memorandum of Understanding of London of 1954, see here for more information: LINK) the Adriatic city and free port is under the trusteeship of the Italian Government, so it is not part of the State of Italy.
As for the international status of Trieste, there is an ongoing, vivacious, political, legal and historical debate.
English translation of the report (PDF): Report