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November 22, 2019The Bari Public Prosecutor ordered a direct summons for 33 people, including 28 CasaPound militants accused of reorganizing the dissolved fascist party "for having implemented the squad method as a tool for political participation".The proceeding stems from the attack on September 21, 2018 in the Libertà district of Bari against anti-fascist protesters who had participated in a march organized after the visit to the city of the then Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini.
Ten of the 28 defendants of CasaPound, defined as "thugs", those who materially took part in the attack with truncheons, gym dumbbells, telescopic truncheons, belts, kicks and punches, injuring four people including the parliamentary assistant of the MEP Eleonora Forenza, present at the time of the attack, are also responsible for the crime of aggravated injuries. The trial will begin before the Court of Bari on March 23, 2020.
Five anti-fascist protesters will also be tried, comrades of the victims, accused of violence and threat to a public official, because after the attack, "in an attempt to break through the cordon of the military", police and carabinieri would have been threatened and kicked, punched and pushed .
According to the charge relating to the beating by extreme right-wing militants, the same would have happened "in execution of a criminal design justified by the fascist ideology".
Following the attack, the headquarters of CasaPound Bari, the Kraken Circle a few steps from the place where the procession had gathered, was placed under sequestration at the disposal of the Bari judiciary. In that place the militants of CasaPound would have collected weapons and gathered men from all over Puglia, waiting for the passage of anti-fascist protesters.
In the subsequent investigations of the Bari Digos, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Roberto Rossi, "objects clearly attributable to the fascist ideology" were found in the headquarters, such as black flags with lictorian beam and a bust of Benito Mussolini.