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What happened to Daniele Franceschi

Interview with Cira and Marco Antignano, Avv. Aldo Lasagna
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He was arrested for a credit card that was cloned. He was in prison for months. He died for no reason. While his mother was asking for justice, she was hit by the police who broke her ribs. The body of the young man, Daniele Franceschi, was returned to the family in an advanced state of decomposition and without the internal organs. This didn’t happen in a remote tribal region, but in the France of “grandeur”, that months later, has still not given a response to the death of one of our fellow countrymen and the unacceptable behaviour, worthy of the worst type of dictatorship.

Testimony about the death of Daniele Franceschi from Marco Antignano, Cira Antignano and the lawyer, avvocato Lasagna.

The death of an Italian in France
Marco Antignano: My name is Marco Antignano. I am Daniele Franceschi’s uncle. This is Cira Antignano, Daniele’s mother.
We are here to tell you a bit about the story and the things that happened. Daniele was arrested on 18 February last year. It seems it was for a cloned credit card in a Casino in Cannes. On 25 August, about 6 months later he had still not been put on trial and it seems he had just been twice before a judge or whoever was carrying out the investigations. When on 26 August we heard about Daniele’s death, from the Carabinieri, we made the first calls to France and from the prison contradictory things started happening: both the time and the day of death. The first version said the lad was found by the warder with a newspaper over his face, the second version however, when his nose was found to be broken, they said the lad had his face towards the ground. At the Pasteur hospital, when we went for the autopsy, his mother went on 28 August, they had said that the autopsy would have been on 31 August. There she discovered that they were to do the autopsy on 30 August. On 30 August, she went to the Pasteur hospital and they told her that the autopsy was to be done the following day. There had been an error because there were two people called Franceschi that had to have an autopsy at the Pasteur hospital in Nice, France, which is something that seems really strange. Anyway, the autopsy was carried out on 31 August.
His mother asked for a doctor representing the family to be present at the autopsy, an Italian doctor, but the French authorities didn’t allow that. Thus, after various requests from the Italian authorities, including one from Minister Frattini, we were looking for some guarantees and they guaranteed that the body would have been kept at at least 20° in such a way that it would be maintained so that it would be possible to do a second autopsy in Italy. Unfortunately, the body was returned to us in a serious state of decomposition, as everyone knows, and the second autopsy unfortunately could not be done well. Anyway for whatever they did manage to see, there’s room for doubt.
After the body came back in this really serious state … in fact – before the body came back – his mother went to Grasse, she went outside the prison to ask for a bit of justice. She had made a tiny placard and she was demonstrating her anger and it was there that she was attacked by two police officers and they manhandled her and arrested with her hands behind her back as though she were a hardened criminal and they took her to the Police station then thanks to the Italian Consul, she was released.
Then we received a letter from a prisoner in the French prison. He was a fire-fighter who was under arrest because for two months he had not paid alimony to his wife. This fire-fighter was one of Daniele’s cell-neighbours, he has even been to the Consul to say he is ready to give evidence. He has already given signatures for this. He said that the lad was complaining of pain for two days. He had received absolutely no treatment. He said he felt bad. He saw that some doctors arrived. The lad fell to the ground and it seems that he had asked if he had seen that the people who were providing first aid were not qualified to do it and then he asked if it was possible to open his cell so that he could intervene and help this lad who was on the ground. He was denied his request. The defibrillator was used badly, probably that could have been the cause of death.”

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It happened in the "highly civilized" northern part of Italy, the city of Brescia, to be more specific. On Annozero, last night, I saw one of the most disgusting and loathesome cases of police brutality I've ever seen on television.

IT WAS APPALLING!!! It ranks up there with the images of police brutality against the Civil Rights marches of Martin Luther King: ferocious and hate-filled attacks on harmless and aging ladies and immigrants of all ages protesting a racist law that criminalizes them, that makes them live in constant fear of being arrested and mercilessly yanked from their families and shipped back to where they came from.

To be sure, all that they are asking for are papers to legalize their status in Italy. Something sanctioned by law - provided they have a job and a home. They are ignored, denied as much even after they've paid a fee of 500 euros. Thus branded illegal immigrants, open to arrest.

We're talking about welders, carpenters, bricklayers, machine operators, and laborers who have been in Italy for years and years, who speak Italian, whose kids are born in Italy (and still not considered Italian citizens) who contribute enormously to the wealth of the most racist and wealthiest region in Italy and home of the quasi-nazi party (governing Italy with Berlusconi) Lombardy - or the Italian Mississippi of the fifties.

What triggered the demonstration? Four (six originally) immigrants perched on top of a tall construction crane and refusing to come down till they are declared lawful Italian residents and arrest-free.

The ensuing discussion after that report told how little racism is understood by the people in power. The people responsible for the ugly situation their laws have created.

Other than Luca Telese, a journalist from Il Fatto Quotidiano, and Renzi, the mayor of Florence, the rest of the guests, which included a party leader, a journalist and others, were mostly concerned about the possible blow-back of the natives against the immigrants as a whole living in Brescia. A race war?

They suggested the immigrants give up their protest. The equivalent of bowing down to a glaring injustice and a victory for the anti-immigrant crowd.

The equivalent of saying to Martin Luther King to end civil rights marches lest whites went rampant.

The "Brescia's six" made me wonder to what extent immigrants must succumb to keep the peace?

It made me wonder about the amount of courage it takes to do the right thing and go against all odds.

It made me wonder why politicians are not fixing highly fixable problems as the problem of the right to residence is.

Maybe because they know how to hide behind their rethorical masks.

Or worse: indifference to the plight of immigrants? And Italy as a whole?

Posted by: Louis Pacella | November 13, 2010 01:09 AM

Dear Beppe,

please forward the following to Sposini, Masi, and anyone in charge of the Italian tv network - I mean the public ones paid for by the italian taxpayer.

What happened to Daniele Franceschini ?

The same that happened to Stefano Cucchi and quite a few others.

They were all murdered by police and not by a relative.

Now, in Italy, if you are murdered by your uncle or cousin as in the case of Sarah S. - then your case gets daily coverage in afternoon peak prime time on RAI 1.
Daily - like for the past 7 weeks.

They get psychologists, criminologists, forensic know-it alls, and anyone who is part of the ridiculous italian parlour television to get their say.

Presumably the whole nation wants to know each and every detail.

If Sposini did the same for Cucchi and Franceschini, the same would happen - the whole nation would sit glued to the screen.

But ... that would not be politically correct.

You cannot disect and discuss murders commited by police or states on italian national television as this would put a bad stamp on the states and the police in question.
Which brings us to Maroni.

Whilst Italy is taken over by in-family murders turned into afternoon parlour soap sit-coms without much com ..... and the Ruby-gate is slowly fading out ..... how come NOBODY has asked your minister of interior to RESIGN ?

Bersani is scratching his head whilst not saying very much.

Di Pietro - er ... wasn't he versed in legal matters ?

Vendola is being carefull ...

Fini is still with one foot in and one out ...

Casini is still doing what he does best - walking on a tightrope 3 cm from the ground...

WAKE UP !

Berlusconi lied about Ruby being the daugther of Mubarak.
Maroni is lying about how the Questura managed the whole shambles covering for idiot Berlusconi's testosterone.

So why would a local DA who was on nightwatch that day state what she stated risking her job and credibility unless it is the complete truth ?

Elsewhere in the democratic world if an interior minister did a cover-up like Maroni has done he would be hung by his balls and fired.

Never mind Bondi who is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat - which is not there.

Maroni - has gotten away with something which nobody seems to have noticed or worse still - everyone is pretending that ...well .... we are used to top politicians covering up with blatant lies.

Geeze .. this is one of your country's top ministers who is lying in everyone's face and since Italy in general seems to be waking up, after Berlusconi and Bondi - Maroni is surely a fair game sitting duck waiting to be taken down.

Go for him!

Keyser Soze

Posted by: Keyser Soze | November 12, 2010 06:38 AM