FREE TRIESTE MOVEMENT: FORMER MANAGERS UNDER AUDIT INQUIRIES ATTEMPT A GOLPE WITH SEVERE CYBERCRIME. 11 May 2014 – Article from “La Voce di Trieste”.
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FREE TRIESTE MOVEMENT: FORMER MANAGERS UNDER AUDIT INQUIRIES ATTEMPT A GOLPE WITH SEVERE CYBERCRIME
Since yesterday evening, May 10th, [2014], the Free Trieste Movement, which is Trieste’s most popular and bigger political organization, as well as the only one standing seriously, with courage, competence, and firmness for Trieste’s present and future, is undergoing a severe internal political attack and cyberattack. It is important defending it with information as much clear and transparent as possible, unlike in Italian parties, where much worse happens, but stays well hidden.
The ongoing attack is an outright golpe attempt, and its leaders are a small, but aggressive gang of misfits made of internal dissidents who want to prevent the President, Roberto Giurastante, and his entourage, in charge since 18 January [2014] from duly and appropriately shed light and clean up various abuses committed during the Movement’s 2013 management. Because they are involved with those.
Indeed, the golpe attempts follows the Friday 9th righteous, new President’s announcement of an extraordinary assembly on June 21st, summoning the Movement’s 3000 members to discuss, on top of the agenda, budgets. Budgets which means discussing former president Stefano Ferluga’s 2013 economic management – and consistent shortcomings, discovered as part of the review initiated by Giurastante himself.
Also, right yesterday evening, around 8PM, after months of hard work, the main accounting investigation had ended, the President received the final report to discuss it with the Management Board and the Auditors, who are arranging the budgets in view of the assembly.
Less than one hour later, coincidental enough, the desperate cyber-political golpe attempt started, in hopes of getting rid of President Giurastante and of his entourage.
Indeed, suddenly the pro-golpe patrol took hold of the Movement’s website (triestelibera.org) and Facebook page, preventing the legitimate representative from accessing any. The patrol cancelled the official communication about the true June 21st assembly, and in its place called for an illegal assembly on May 31st in the name of unknown “founding members” (sic), accompanied by an equally illegal “Declaration about the Management Board’s expiration” in the name of some former managers
But there is more, because as they faced retractions or protects, they simply deleted them and blocked the users involved, claiming that so the website could no longer be “violated” by its legitimate owners, since they needed it for their May 31st assembly. One that does also limit participation rather strictly. An outright, anti-democratic golpe attempt, that’s it, and incredibly illegal, shameless and reckless, too.
Especially because by violating the Movement’s website they committed a serious cybercrime, immediately prosecutable. Furthermore, to summon Tree Trieste’s members they must have as well stolen the Movement’s members list and digital archives, therefore committing even more serious crimes, all of this in a clear criminal organization. Not to mentions the compensation for the damages their illegal actions are causing.
And it is obvious that, facing a criminal attack this harsh, undignified, and cowardly, the Movement is takin proper measures against those responsible, with as much sternness as necessary.
However, the profile of former president Stefano Ferluga’s golpe gang, who was still the Movement’s vice-president, was already a discomforting one, and not only because it insisted on covering up the fact, discovered by Giurastante and other mildly infuriated members, that during Ferluga’s management lots of money went missing.
Indeed, Ferluga, amateur esoteric, surrounded himself with a group of early supporters loyal to him, placing some in the Management Board, and of a “security service” turned rough pretorian guard loyal to them (especially to Ferluga himself and to his predecessor, Alessandro Giombi-Gombač) scaring the volunteers in the Movement’s office, as it attended even organizational meetings.
Furthermore, with his supporters, Ferluga established and controlled two parallel organization: a non-profit and one for entrepreneurs. Once again with rather disconcerting people, including previous offenders, for fraud and phishing even or other crimes, of whom for now we aren’t releasing the names yet, even if some of them are already raging with lies and insulting claims either online or on Il Piccolo.
Confiding in his little gang, in view of the Assembly that ultimately elected Roberto Giurastante, the Movement’s de facto leader in his place, Stefano Ferluga, did also try to maintain control over the whole organization, including in the draft statute an illegal, tyrannical clause that gave him and some other “founders” the right to veto any decision by any social body, including the Assembly itself. And they did keep acting as the Movement’s owners even after the Assembly’s vote against the provision in the new Statute.
At this point Giurastante, unanimously acclaimed President in January [2014] faced, with increasing hardship, that counter-power within the Movement, which prevented him from cleaning up the organization and was even threatening or attacking volunteers, escaping the authority of the Movement’s legitimate social bodies, and was compromising the Movement’s the clear, new, clean battle for Trieste, contaminating it with old, useless, harmful provocations over former Zone B, electoral plans, and secret connections with Italian parties.
Roberto Giurastante, with whom I share 20 years of civil and environmental battles, is a person as extraordinary and brave when it comes to fighting for common good and legality, as he is honest, respectful, and calm in daily and social life. HIs character and battle curriculum are perfectly captured in his extraordinary investigative book about criminality in Trieste, “Tracks of Legality”, which makes him a Triestine Saviano.
And this makes Giurastante also one of the two most effective civil rights defenders in Trieste – and also hated by the political-economic criminal cartels that parasitize Trieste. The other person criminals hate is me, and the reason you can find on my on-line curriculum.
However, facing Stefano Ferluga’s internal faction and his gang was harder, especially because they are people who rely on such tactics because hey show no character or cultural tools necessary for a correct, high-level discussion about political and diplomatic choices for a Movement that is not any other party, but needs to invest strong, increasing popular support in international law actions for the full activation of the Free Territory of Trieste’s rights. Something none of those people has ever contributed in the slightest.
Indeed, those “founders” – except Roberto Giurastante – did very little for the Movement except signing its instrument of constitution in 2021, just like passengers on a ship who claim command while it is others who do all the working and rowing. And this is why nearly all volunteers and activists is standing still with Giurastante, who keeps working to organize the Movement’s budget and stop negative behaviors.
Then, in mid-April, came confidential information about ‘ndrangheta threatens against Roberto Giurastante an me, as well as against the call for tenders in the Northern Free Port, because we are the three factors preventing the massive housing and building speculation – under anti-Mafia questions – that politicians want to force, no matter the cost.
In order to contrast such serious threats, we needed to denounce them to the appropriate investigative offices outside of Trieste, who started investigating, and also releasing the information on-line and adopting the required security measures.
And, coincidental enough, this is when both online and on Il Piccolo, a smearing campaign hit us, delegitimizing and insulting us abnormally and violently, portraying us as delusional conspiracy loons, idiots, and the Movement’s destroyers, as well as claiming that it’s impossible that in Trieste there are connections between politicians, enterprises, and mafia-like criminality.
A smearing campaign driven, with professional skills, using blogger Andrea Rodriguez, book seller Paolo Deganutti, and a good number of inciters and previously-known ambiguous characters, some of whom close to the Italian services, but also, again, the internal faction involved in the golpe and led by Stefano Ferluga.
Who, as a good sorcerer’s apprentice, took advantage of the smearing campaign with his gang to try seizing the Movement and covering up the questions about his previous management of the organization’s accounts, deposing Giurastante, driving away me for my role of journalist, and also the independent Managers, where Ferluga’s right hand men started (as the minutes and records reveal) claiming even that democracy deserves no respect, and violence is fine as long as no blood is spilled.
This is then the Management Board was forced to take urgent action to protect the Movement from them, hence the first disciplinary measures (suspensions and expulsions), as well as distancing Ferluga’s violent militias, all while Ferluga himself kept a low profile.
So the aggressive golpe gang started, with Il Piccolo’s favor and on-line, to play victim, blaming a crazy dictator (Giurastante, who in truth had tolerated way too much), and pretending to be defending the Movement even if they are actually smearing it, all while the militia quickly started throwing around insults and threatening physical violence.
At this point, to the ‘ndrangheta-related threatens against Giurastante and me are to be added those of former members of the Movement: a rather brilliant operation, even if short-lived, all while the golpe gang planned its attack against Free Trieste.
But suddenly, as the main audit about their 2013 management succeeded, they panicked, and started committing serious cyber-crimes attempting acts and assemblies in breach of both the Movement’s statute and against the law, in an attempt to seize back the Movement, cover-up the investigations about budgets during their management, all before the 21 June assembly asked them to respond for the missing money.
So, their purpose look as noble as their means, in the face of whoever fell for those imposters’ play and believed in their good faith. No further comment is needed.
What is clear is that with their actions those people are playing by the book of the Italian powers and local political-economic cartels against the Free Trieste Movement. So against the only actual house for out Triestine people to enjoy the rights, jobs, and well-being it deserves.
The duly answer? Non preavalebunt. They won’t prevail.
Paolo G. Parovel