EMILIO IN PRISON. APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY
On Friday 3 December 2020, one of our comrades, Emilio Scalzo, was extradited from Italy to France and imprisoned in Aix-Luynes prison. Emilio, a 67-year-old former fishmonger, a long-standing NoTav activist and since the beginning engaged in bringing solidarity to migrants passing through Valsusa and Brianconnese, is accused of violence against a public official following…
RESALP, A COMPANY THAT SELECT ITS PASSENGERS AND THAT HELPS THE BORDER GUARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
Resalp is a french transportation company that runs the bus line connecting Italy and France from Oulx (TO) to Briançon. Since years, every day, this line is used by dozens of people that don’t have the documents in order to pass the border “legally”. Many leave with the bus from Oulx and arrive in Claviere,…
Freedom for Emilio! Some of the photos sent in solidarity
Gate of the Athens Polytechnic, in front of the Institute of Italian Culture. “Solidarity with Emilio. Against the borders that kill Against the devastation of the Susa Valley Against police violence Against the European arrest warrants”. Dynamo Dora (Brescia/Torino) Roma Entrance to the headquarters of the Alliance Française – a cultural centre directly emanating from…
Contention and expulsion: gears in the society of exclusion
Published on 06/12/2021 by hurriya As we put the pieces together for this article, reality overcame the atrocities we were preparing to recount: Abdel Latif, a young man from Tunisia, was killed on 28 November, after three days in a state of mechanical restraint in Rome’s San Camillo hospital. State racism is sprawling and Abdel…
TO WRITE TO EMILIO: THE CODE HAS ARRIVED!
DON’T LEAVE EMILIO ALONE! LET’S FLOOD THE PRISON WITH LETTERS! EMILIO SCALZO 89145 (numero d’écrou) Maison d’arrêt d’Aix luynes 70 route Deus Châteaux du Mont Robert CS 20600 13595 AIX EN PROVENCE CEDEX 3
IS THE UNHCR-LIBYA SUPPORTING THE LIBYAN AUTHORITIES TO ILL TREAT THE REFUGEES?
article published on 3 December on www.refugeesinlibya.org, a website recently created by migrants who have been in a sit-in for more than two months in front of the UNHCR headquarters in Libya. In the early month of October, the Libyan authorities and its security devices including military armies of different entities sweeped the entire makeshift…
ABOUT THE DAY ON THE BORDER. FOR THE EMILIO’S FREEDOM!
Last Friday, Emilio was extradited. After being questioned by the cops, he was immediately locked up in prison in Aix-Luynes (Aix-En-Provence), 300 km from home. Yesterday, in one of the opening days of the winter tourist season, a demonstration moved from Claviere towards Montgenèvre in response to this arrest and against all borders. Upon arrival…
EMILIO EXTRADITED TO FRANCE
Emilio was extradited to France yesterday. He was transferred to Gap for the hearing/interrogation and was taken to Aix-Luynes prison (Aix-En-Provence) for pre-trial detention, pending trial. They had clearly already decided not to grant him any alternative measure. One more punishment. The lawyer is considering possible appeals. The “écrou” number (identification code) needed to write…
SATURDAY, 4thDECEMBER AT 1PM IN CLAVIERE FOR THE FREEDOM FOR EMILIO AND FOR EVERYONE
Yesterday, Wednesday 1st December , shortly after 1pm, Emilio was arrested. They took him away from his house, where he had been under house arrest for two months. The aggravation of the measure was requested and accepted because of public order- arguing that the presence of some people at the permanent demo in front of…
EMILIO ARRESTED. DEMONSTRATION AT THE “VALLETTE” PRISON TODAY AT 6 PM
Today, at about 1.20 p.m., the DIGOS (political police) of Turin showed up at Emilio’s house. Escorted by several lorries of riot police, which blocked the main road and the entrances to the house, the plain-clothes guards climbed over and forced the gate and took him away. On the order of the General Prosecutor, they…