{"article":{"id":16933,"heading":"URGENT - Italy: Police raids on COBAS Confederation","author":"nestor mcnab","created":"2002-06-02 14:58:01","modified":"2002-06-02 16:01:12","last_modified":"Sun, 02 Jun 2002 23:01:12","article":"

This morning, 31st May 2002, in Taranto, the police carried out a

series of searches against union offices and members on the

orders of investigating magistrates, in particular against the

COBAS Confederation. At present (12.00) with the police action still

ongoing, it seems that 9 conrades are under house arrest with no

possibility of communication with the outside world. Computers and

documents have been confiscated form the Cobas offices. Among those

arrested are some who had made reports against police violence

following the events of Naples and Genoa last year.

Most seriously of all is the charge which has been pinned on those

arrested - they are charged under Article 270, ie. on charges of

\"subversive association\", which means that they are not being

charged with any particular criminal act, but as a result of their

political activity - their presence in the social struggles and

those of workers and against war - activities always carried out

in thye full light of day.

The COBAS Confederation denounces this most serious act of

intimidation which is nothing less than a fascist pincer movement

against the union and political independance of the COBAS and all

in the radical protest movement. We offer our total solidarity to

those comrades who have been detained and interrogated and the

COBAS Confederatrion demands their immediate release and invites

all workers, anticapitalists and democrats to mobilize to the

fullest extent for the immediate removal of these hateful and

unconstitutional repressive measures.

For the COBAS Confederation,

National Spokesperson

Pino Giampietro<\/p>\n","contact":"nestor_mcnab@yahoo.co.uk","link":"http:\/\/www.ainfos.ca\/en\/ainfos09246.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"SERIOUS ACT OF PROVOCATION BY THE JUDICIARY AGAINST THE COBAS CONFEDERATION","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/06\/16933.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}