From Rete Evasioni
Translated by act for freedom now
What you’re about to read is a story like many others. Take 5 minutes and read it carefully because even if it’s a story like many others, it offers an outstanding example of how guards and judges operate.
Carlo is one of the many comrades who rebelled against state violence on 15th October [2011] and today he’s being inflicted the judicial persecution of the State.
Carlo was arrested on 27th October 2011 after the clashes in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome, and was accused of aggravated resistance and devastation.
Carlo was identified thanks to a picture published by the website of the daily Il Giornale. As he saw the picture of a boy near a police van, a carabiniere and reader of the newspaper from Tuscany allegedly identified Carlo. Soon afterwards his colleagues went to Carlo’s home with the picture that showed him while he was throwing some liquid, incendiary liquid according to investigators, into the carabinieri van that was set on fire in Piazza San Giovanni. In the carabinieri’s opinion, Carlo was one of the responsible for the fire on the armoured van and was also accused of resistance to public official, that is to say carabiniere Fabio Tartaglione, the van driver who was allowed out of the vehicle without problems. Carlo admitted he was in the picture but he also pointed out that the liquid was a drink. No inflammable liquid.
After serving 1 month and a half of preventive arrest, Carlo was put under house arrest on 10th December 201. On 23rd March 2012 the court of Rome authorized Carlo to get out of his house under restrictions until the trial.
On 4th October 2012 Carlo was sentenced to 5 years. No mention was made of the inflammable liquid as no one had examined it: it had been identified as such by a carabinieri’s mere supposition.
Carlo was jailed again on 20th June 2013 for allegedly breaking his bail conditions. But he had not escaped house arrest: as his house is in the countryside he had simply run after his dogs in the wood to take them back home. He had also informed the carabinieri of the episode.
On 10th October the appeal trial reconfirmed the sentence.
On 31st January 2014 the Court of Review of Rome accepted Carlo’s lawyer’s appeal and ordered the reinstatement of house arrest but without the possibility to get visits.
On 6th May 6 2014 the Cassation quashed the appeal sentence with reference. On 15th May the same Court of Appeal reinstated prison custody on the grounds of a violation of bail conditions even if Carlo had never left his house. The court ordered him be taken back to the Don Bosco prison in Pisa.
As a matter of fact, however, on 6th May the Cassation had quashed the sentence pronounced by the III Section of the Court of Appeal of Rome, and therefore Carlo should have been released months ago. But until the motivations for the sentence are made public, which will allow Carlo’s lawyer to make application for release, the state is exercising its miserable revenge once again, and with a banal pretext it has jailed Carlo for the third time.
Freedom for Carlo!
Freedom for all!
To write to Carlo:
Carlo Seppia
C.C. Don Bosco
Via San Giovanni Bosco 43
56127 Pisa
Italy
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