Turin, clashes in the march on May 1st 2019: 13 precautionary measures

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March 22, 2021 The facts date back to the workers' demonstration on May 1, 2019. And today the police, as part of an articulated investigation by the Digos of the Turin Police Headquarters coordinated by the local Public Prosecutor's Office, carried out thirteen precautionary measures for the clashes that took place during that march .

In particular, these are a house arrest, three bans on residence in Turin and in the municipalities of Val Susa and nine reporting obligations to the police towards leaders and militants of the Askatasuna social center in Turin, held responsible for resistance to public officials and private violence. aggravated.

The investigations made it possible to identify and report 30 other militants in the area in a state of freedom for similar crimes.

According to the investigators, during the demonstration, several Askatasuna militants, positioned at the head of the procession made up of about 2,000 people also attributable to the No Tav movement, the anarchist area and the various associations of citizen dissent, would have been responsible for repeated violent actions , both upon departure in via Po and upon arrival in via Roma, near Piazza San Carlo.

A member of the PD order service was kicked and punched.

A Digos operator was also injured in throwing bottles, flagpoles and blunt objects.

When the demonstrators arrived in via Roma they tried to break through the cordon of the police who had intervened with 'lightening actions' also because 'they were the object of the throwing of bottles, flagpoles and other blunt objects'.

Digos agent wounded.

The facts date back to the workers' demonstration on May 1st 2019, when several Askatasuna militants, positioned themselves at the head of the social segment composed of about 2000 people, also linked to the No-Tav movement, the anarchist area and the various groups of citizen dissent, they were responsible for repeated violent actions that required several interventions by the contingents of law enforcement and Digos personnel.

The most violent groups intended to reach the head of the procession to give a purely "NoTav" connotation to the traditional workers' demonstration.

Shortly before the departure of the institutional procession, several Askatasuna militants had repeatedly tried to break through the cordons of the police, then managed to pass, at the beginning of the demonstration, the van of the Liberi e Uguali party, subsequently attempting to climb over the segment as well of the Democratic Party, attacking, on several occasions, both some politicians and the members of the party's order service, including one violently hit with kicks and punches.

Subsequently the demonstrators had tried to break through another cordon of the police forces, forcing them to intervene with lightening actions after the launch of bottles, flagpoles and other blunt objects in which a Digos agent was slightly injured.

under house arrest There is also one of the historical leaders of the Askatasuna social center, among the people who ended up under house arrest.

The 37-year-old MM was arrested this morning by the police who also carried out 12 other precautionary measures - 3 residence bans between the Piedmontese capital and the municipalities of Val Susa and 9 obligations of presentation to the Judicial Police - against other militants of the historic social center. of the Piedmontese capital.

The blitz is the culmination of the investigations conducted by the Digos and coordinated by the prosecutor's office which see another 30 militants from the Piedmontese anarchist-antagonist area under investigation.

The man, according to the reconstruction of the investigators, would have played a role of coordination and direction in the most violent phases of the demonstration.  

The obligation to report to the police was instead ordered against the 40-year-old DL, historical spokesperson for Askatasuna currently detained in execution of a definitive sentence.

The woman is accused of having assumed the role of 'official voice of the march', fomenting and inciting the other troublemakers.