THE EIGHT PEOPLE SEEKING TO SEIZE THE FREE TRIESTE MOVEMENT, HOW AND WHY. 2 June 2014 article translated from “La Voce di Trieste”.
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THE EIGHT PEOPLE SEEKING TO SEIZE THE FREE TRIESTE MOVEMENT, HOW AND WHY
The followers of the Free Trieste Movement’s vicissitudes know that, since mid-April [2014], there is an attempted “golpe” from the inside going on and that it enjoys strong active and passive support from Italian circles, and also that it was unleashed with violent, aggressive disinformation campaigns.
Free Trieste, with its about 3,000 members and public demonstrations attracting thousands, is the city’s main political movement. Also, it does not run in elections, because its purpose is the full reactivation of the Free Territory of Trieste’s rights and of its Free Port under international law instruments.
Both the disinformation campaigns and the attempted “golpe” from the inside exploded once the Movement and La Voce di Trieste denounced to public opinion a local connection among politicians, builders, and organized crime in big tendering procedures.
In particular, it is the attempted illegal speculation the Northern Free Port’s expenses, in which is involved the recently arrested Enrico Maltauro, and the attempt to build in Trieste’s port multinational company Gas Natural’s LNG terminal, all while the antimafia authority has recently seized the company’s Italian branch.
The alleged purpose of such disinformation campaigns and attempted golpe from the inside is denying that alarm, delegitimizing La Voce di Trieste, and substituting the current President and Management Board of the Free Trieste Movement with people who belong to the “golpe gang”.
That golpe gang consists of some former managers expelled for serious and documented reasons, including not only breaches of the Movement’s statute and directives, but also, as mentioned in the Movement’s press release of June 1st, 2014, «missing money, as well as criminal convictions, ongoing investigations and criminal trials for fraud, violent behavior, drug trafficking and distribution, and more».
Since May 10th, the Movement is illegally acting in Free Trieste’s name, committing crimes and cybercrime, because it took control of the Movement’s social media, it claimed the “expiration” of both the President and the Management Board, and held its own, illegitimate assembly on May 31st, [2014] with about 10-15% of the Movement’s members, which the gang then claimed elected it as the “Movement’s new management board”.
They did even illegally amend the Statute to make the President’s role in-name-only, and to prevent the Assembly from appointing it, assigning the Management Board the power to pick one of its own members for the role. By such illegal means, all power lies in the hands of the golpe gang’s bosses, which control each other.
Furthermore, the group announced that it is going to seize the Movement’s office and that of its monthly paper “Trieste Libera News”.
The golpe gang’s declared political program is quitting denouncing mismanagement and ending legal battles for the Free Territory’s rights, and using the Movement to run for elections, to dispute Croatia and Slovenia’s borders, and to support Italian separatist movements.
Essentially, it is the same program of right-wing Italian populate movements, plus “neutrality” tp corruption and criminality. Furthermore, it results that the golpe gang proclaiming this is compromised for the aforementioned reasons, has little political and legal culture, and the operation looks to be directed from the outside.
Free Trieste has officially warned the fake “new managers” against abusing the Movement’s name, and sought the immediate restitution of its social media. Since weeks, it has also presented criminal complaints. Still, the Italian judiciary hasn’t yet prevented the “golpe gang” from continuing its crimes against the Movement.
This is why, as a private citizen, I publicly challenged the “golpe gang” to face me in a free debate at its own illegitimate May 31st assembly. They didn’t grant me free speech, hoping I’d give up, but I went regardless.
In the room (an abandoned storehouse), there were about 200 people. They claimed it was 400. Half of them were part, relatives, or friends of the paramilitary-like “security service”. There was no distinction between members, non-members, and outsiders.
Presiding the meeting was the “golpe gang” made of expelled and resigning former managers Stefano Ferluga, Vito Potenza, Sandro Gombač, Arlon Stok, Adriano Ciacchi, Claudio Beorchia, Marco Pizzi, and Andrej Rupel. By their side, as “moderator” from Milan was Alex Storti, ambiguous Italian promoter of Lombardy and Veneto’s secession from Italy.
Behind them stood the head of the “security” Alessandro “Sandro” Gotti, and Andrea Rodriguez, a blogger who as oddly unleashed and directed the violent, aggressive, misinforming campaigns against the Movement with Paolo Deganutti’s help, and the support of others standing among the participants.
The golpe’s heads outright prevented debate, allowing the people to speak or ask question for just 3 minutes, all while reserving 9 minutes each to answer as “speakers” while in truth they spoke more than thirty minutes each, and only then answered any question. To me, the only official opponent, they granted only 9 minutes, and prevented a few more people from gifting me their 3 minutes as additional time.
In their speeches the golpe’s heads did little more than repeating the personal, insulting attacks they already published on-line against the President, the Management Board in office, and again me, proclaimed their political and renunciatory program mentioned above. Also, they spoke little to nothing about the Free Territory of Trieste limiting it to rhetorical slogans without the slightest mention of a political-diplomatic action about it.
So it wasn’t a free, detailed debate, but only a gross, deceptive political speech of the golpe’s heads, who incited the people in a bad stadium atmosphere, and without allowing members to express critiques.
I spoke last. In my 9 minutes to shortly explain (proposing a better meeting for further clarifications and documents) that the golpe gang’s claims are false, and spread by cybercrime, that the assembly is illegitimate, and its decisions null and void.
Then I summed-up the political-diplomatic international question of the Free Territory of Trieste, of the Free Port, of the competences and strategies needed to achieve the goal without obstacles or international destabilizations. Finally, I explained the severe reasons why the former managers now leading the golpe was expelled.
As soon as I mentioned their connections, already under investigation, with a cocaine trafficar and dealer arrested in November 2013 (by now convicted in Trieste and, apparently, previously convicted in Germany) and mentioned his name, some people protested calling him a friend, the “golpe gang” turned pale, denied, most of the public started screaming, insulting, threatening me, some attempted a physical aggression, and were only stopped by the people who came with me and, correctly, by the security group.
The heads turned my microphone off while two of them, Stefano Ferluga and Vito Potenza, as the crowd cheered and applauded them, accused me of disloyalty and of failing to inform them about the ongoing investigations about them.
They didn’t let me replay that those disloyal are them, and they are also irresponsible, because they didn’t inform the Movement about their contacts with that person, and failed to mention his arrest.
Given the situation there was no way to speak anymore, so I left escorted attentively and fairly. This is why I wasn’t there when the “new managers” were appointed, or during the illegal assembly’s other decisions.
The fake management board consists of Stefano Ferluga, Vito Potenza, Adriano Ciacchi, Luca Milkovitsch, Marco Pizzi, Andrej Rupel, Claudio Beorchia, while mega-biased blogger Andrea Rodriguez is now an “arbitrator” (proboviro).
The facts confirm in the end the whole analysis framework, previsions, and diagnosis about the events and very violent attacks against both La Voce di Trieste and the Free Trieste Movement (especially its President, Roberto Giurastante) to deny the connections existing in Trieste between politicians, builders, and organized crime in big tenders.
Furthermore, it’s hard to understand what prevented the Italian judiciary and police from complying with the urgent actions requested by the Movement with its official, prompt, documented complaints, ending the golpe gang’s ongoing crimes and cyber-crimes against Free Trieste.
Essentially, as soon as Free Trieste’s President increased denounces of corruptions involving crimes and politics in Trieste, he was hit with an extremely violent public attack from a group consisting of people inside and outside the Movement, including some previous offenders or involved with criminals.
And this group made a plan, committed crimes, and falsely claims to have been appointed as the Movement’s only head as part of an illegal, small, incited assembly. Now they want to seize the Movement’s office [in Piazza della Borsa 7] and all of the organization’s belongings, without even a Court’s order. Not that they have any chance to get one.
The visible result, for the Italian authorities’ full enjoyment, is some big confusion and a damage to the Movement and the cause of Trieste, as well as the establishment of a political clone-movement, low-level, compromised, destabilizing, and reduced to just another small party. Still, there is some good in the operation, too, because Free Trieste is now… free of those people, and this is an advantage.
Now it is time to trust in the ability of Trieste’s people to distinguish the truth from the lies, the true Movement from its fake double, those attacked and the attackers, courage and cowardice, the difference from those working seriously, with competence, standing for legality and achieving results for Trieste’s cause and those seeking Italian political seats, denying the existence of mafia-like criminality, wants to stop legal action for civil rights, and has no idea about activating them either.
But we can also trust in the attention of international observers in distinguishing carefully the real Movement, who stands for the rights of Trieste’s people without hampering international stability, and the fake one, which seeks to destabilize Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy for the sake of interests that are certainly illegitimate.
Paolo G. Parovel