The Northern Free Port of Trieste is a strategic sector of the international Free Port.
Trieste, 27 December 2014. This morning Free Trieste organized a demonstration to defend the international Free Port of Trieste.
Indeed, this December 19th the Italian Government deceived the Senate into approving 3 amendments to the Italian Budget Law, paving the way to a massive, 1.5 billion EUR building and housing speculation at the expenses of the Northern Free Port.
The Northern Free Port is a strategic, constrained sector of the international Free Port of Trieste. Its status is provided by the 1947 Treaty of Peace with Italy, which establishes it as a State Corporation of the Free Territory of Trieste and establishes general and special rights over it. In particular, the States of Central and Eastern Europe have significant special rights over it.
According to Free Trieste, the Italian Government’s action is “a severe thread to the economic opportunities and integrity of State” of the Free Territory. The Movement is preparing “new local and international actions to prevent the coming into force and the enforcement of that Italian law. The amendments would eliminate half of the international Free Port, promoting an illegal building and housing speculation. Those measures are also in-constitutional, because they breach both Italian and international law”.
The demonstration consisted in a march from Piazza della Borsa through Piazza Grande and the coast, reaching the entrance of the Northern Free Port. The participants stopped before the monument to Empress Elizabeth, where Roberto Giurastante, President of the Free Trieste Movement, spoke about the importance of the Northern Free Port.
Despite the short notice, festivities, and bad weather, more than 350 people marched together in the streets.
Gallery:
Free Trieste's office. On the balcony, the banner says "LET US SAVE THE PORT".
Telequattro interviews Roberto Giurastante about the demonstration in defense of the Northern Free Port of Trieste.
The Free Territory of Trieste's flag of State.
Marching from Piazza della Borsa to Piazza Grande.
The march in front of the office of the Commissioner of the administering Italian Government.
We don't want the Northern Free Port to be destroyed!
The international Free Port is vital for Central Europe.
Roberto Giurastante explains to the press that the latest regulation to "remove from State Property" the Northern Free Port conflict not only with the Italian Peace Treaty (1947) but also with the domestic Italian laws that recognize and enforce it.
"Our Port is your Port"!
We, the people of the Free Territory of Trieste are standing for the future of our State!
Reaching Piazza Libertà: the Northern Free Port is near.
The people stop in front of the Monument to Empress Elisabeth "Sissi".
Roberto Giurastante, President of the Free Trieste Movement, addresses the crowd: we won't stop protecting legality and our rights.