A few days ago, in the Court of Trieste, I was once again under trial.
As ends the trial for Free Trieste’s 10 February 2014 demonstration in defense of the Northern Free Port (July 10th 2017), obviously with the acquittal of all of the accused persons, including myself.
The charge brought forward by Public Prosecutor Federico Frezza, was subversion.
We were 17 under trial. Including also those who left the Free Trieste Movement to establish new political organizations and run in Italian election. Unlimited hunger for power can go just this far.
In the end, even those that we consider “traitors” of our cause were cleared from all charged in the trial for the demonstration of 10 February 2014 thanks to our defense. Because during the 12 hearings, with their lawyers, they had a passive defense, without rejecting the judge who was trying them eluding our questions on jurisdiction, essentially, they relied on our powerful defense.
Because during those 12 hearings of criminal proceeding 840/14 there was one only defense in favor of the rights of the Free Territory of Trieste, its international Free Port, and its citizens: that of the Free Trieste Movement.
One trial ends, another one starts.
The one of July 25th follows a complaint against me, from someone who has left Free Trieste. A pretentious complaint, but immediately supported by the usual Prosecution Office of the Republic in Trieste, very involved in the attempt to silence whose who are seriously struggling against Italian mafias to protect the Free Territory of Trieste.
This is one of the things that hurt me the most.
The very same people I protected and helped to be cleared of all charges are now testifying against me. Without shame. They want me convicted, side by side with the judiciary they label as representing “the occupying Country” in their shaky proclamation. They did ask and obtain the trial be held behind closed doors, because they didn’t want people to hear them testifying against me.
On July 25th, during a trial held behind closed doors, I stated once again what my rights as a citizens of the Free Territory of Trieste are, the same way I always do since December 14th, 2011, when, for the first time ever, I raised an exception of jurisdiction before the Court of Trieste (LINK), before a judge who was trying me due to a complaint of a former comrade turned to the enemies.
Here is the record of my declaration of citizenship, pronounced before the Italian judge (in Italian: LINK)
Translated from blog “Ambiente e Legalità” – “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante