Police try to link Lecce Defendants to FAInformale

ELP has just received the following update about the Italian Lecce
Defendants trial.

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Update Nottetempo

The hearing held on January 25 was once again focused on the
depositions of witnesses for the prosecution: the managers of
Benetton shops in Lecce, which had been targets of anarchist demos in
solidarity to the Mapuche people, and the Digos chiefs from Viterbo
and Turin. The latter’s statement was particularly astonishing: first
he made a connection between the anarchist paper ‘Tempi di guerra’
(‘correspondences of the struggle against the detention camps for
immigrants and the world that produces them’) and a few incendiary
attacks recently carried out in Turin; then he boasted that
anarchists can be divided in two categories: those who practice
direct actions and belong to the FAI (Anarchist Informal Federation)
and those who do not practise it. He also revised the thesis of
anarchist ‘subversive associations’ aimed at committing acts of
terrorism.

The next hearing will take place on February 8.