An appeal on behalf of Rudra Bianzino
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Roberta Radici recently died in some hospital while awaiting a liver transplant. Her name will not mean much to anyone who watches the television or reads the newspapers. She was the widow of a carpenter by the name of Aldo Bianzino, who died in jail and whose only sin was to get caught growing marijuana plants in his vegetable patch. Roberta took part in the V2Day event, which is where I met her son. Roberta cried with joy at seeing an entire San Carlo square, full to the brim with people sharing in her tragedy. Perhaps her course of her illness was speeded up by the stress and the heartache. At the end of December 2007, I posted the following article on this blog:

"Someone comes knocking at your door. It’s the State. They drag you away from your family. Away from your fourteen-year-old son. They accuse you of growing marijuana plants in your vegetable patch at home. They throw you in a cell. They kill you. This is not the Argentina of the Colonels, nor is it Stalin’s Russia. This is Mastella and Amato’s Italy. Aldo Bianzino was murdered in prison. He was killed twice over. Once by his murderers and then again by the media that totally ignored his case. Aldo’s widow’s name was Roberta Radici. In an interview that she granted us, she said: "I really don’t know what to think of the State and I don’t know what to think of the justice system."

The Bianzino family was made up of Aldo, his wife Roberta, his son Rudra and the child’s grandmother, who passed away shortly after Aldo's death. The family was by no means well-off.
Now Rudra is all alone. He is now obliged to bear the costs of the criminal case against Aldo’s prison warders while continuing to study in order to create some sort of future for himself. Together with Jacopo Fo and the Perugia Meetup, I am launching an appeal for donations to a fund for Rudra. This Blog will continue to follow the Bianzino trial through to the very end, as we did in the case of the Rasman and the Aldrovandi trials. These deaths of innocent people are connected by a red ribbon of shame for the institutions.
Let’s not leave this youngster all alone. Let’s do something, as much for our own sakes as for his.

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