What a strange country we have. A country in which an arrest warrant for Cosentino (PDL) and Tedesco (PDminusL) is rejected by Parliament and two young women with unblemished records end up in prison in Turin. Marianna, aged 20, and Nina, aged 35, are two pacifists who protested for the disgrace of the TAV in Val di Susa, a useless monster of 22 billion paid from our taxes. Marianna is studying medicine and Nina is a nurse and a volunteer with 118 and has three children. Why arrest them? Wasn’t it enough to impose house arrest? And is one not guilty only after a regular trial? What tremendous social danger do these two women represent? And in what Fxxxing State are we living anyway? Davide Bono, a regional councillor with M5S, met up with the two women in prison this morning. Soon we will publish his account.
I invite everyone to send a telegram of support to the two young women:

Here’s their address:
GARBERI ELENA / VALENTI MARIANNA
Casa circondariale
Lorusso Cotugno
Via Pianezza 300
10151 Torino ITALY

Interview with Simonetta Zandiri, a NO-TAV campaigner:

The parallel reality of the Val di Susa
My name is Simonetta Zandiri and I’m a NO-TAV campaigner. The NO-TAV battle involves us, given that there is an obvious emergency that everyone who lives locally has in front of our very eyes. Unfortunately, it is not so much in the eyes of those who are far away, because the media continue to perform censorship and to issue only a part of the information, a little or nothing at all of our reasoning and about what is truly happening in Val Susa. When you arrive at Chiomonte it seems that you are abandoning the borders of Italy and you are entering a parallel reality.

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Rights trampled on for 22 years
Now they are being accused of complicity in aggression and aggression against a public official. The charges against them are in a way determined by the situation in which they were captured rather than individual actions and the accusations are very serious and we have the feeling that the case is more than anything else a political case, because of the presence of Caselli’s deputy (who is an important person) at the hearing to validate the arrest and then I have always been fighting

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Two women in prison
Since Friday they haven’t yet been able to meet up with anyone apart from the lawyers obviously, and they have not yet even seen their parents. They haven’t been able to have anything, not even some clothing from home, something to change into. We know that this morning Ms Artesio, the regional councillor, has been to see them and we hope that others, who have the possibility, can go to show solidarity. For us, it’s a bit difficult because the procedures for admission

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