The demonstrators came to support the Italian, a refugee in Brittany, before a judgment of the Court of Cassation expected on October 11, at the call of his support committee.
They were joined by deputies from LFI, EELV, PCF, and activists from Mrap and the Human Rights League.
The Court must rule on the execution of the European arrest warrant issued by Italy against Vecchi, after the opinion delivered in July by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which considered that France could not oppose the execution of the European arrest warrant and therefore its delivery to Italy, referring the final decision to the Court of Cassation in France.
During speeches, several participants expressed their concern before the decision that the Court of Cassation will render, indicated Jean-Pierre Guenanten, a coordinator of the "Vincenzo support committee".
"We are still in a rise in fascist tension in Italy of course but also everywhere in Europe", declared on the microphone Margot Medkour, members of the collective Nantes in common, on the eve of crucial legislative elections in Italy which could see a historic victory of the extreme right.
"If we follow the CJEU, we should also deliver women who would come to practice abortion in France to escape Polish justice," argued the activist.
"All of this is absurd, as it seems absurd and political nonsense to extradite, put or put Vincenzo Vecchi back in prison," said Margot Medkour.
Sentenced in Italy in 2009 to twelve and a half years in prison, Mr. Vecchi was one of the "ten of Genoa", ten activists sentenced, often to very heavy sentences, for the clashes during the G8.
He was arrested in August 2019 in Rochefort-en-Terre (Morbihan) then released in November 2019 by the Rennes Court of Appeal, deeming irregular "the execution procedure" of the European arrest warrant.
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