Italy: Stop victimization of anti-fascist trade union leader Matteo Parlati

[Sasha]

Matteo Parlati, a shop steward for the FIOM-CGIL union at Ferrari Auto was denounced because he took part in a demonstration in October 2011 in Modena against a neofascist group which was celebrating the Fascist March on Rome from 1922. During that demonstration, police charged at the anti-fascists. Matteo is now accused, together with other 13 demonstrators, of resisting police officers and to have had a 'moral responsibility' for the clashes between the police and the antifascists. This is not true. In fact, Matteo was clubbed in the head by a police officer, as clearly showed by photos and videos. The local judge and prefect are simply trying legalize Fascist organizations and to suppress the anti-Fascists. All the shop stewards at Ferrari Auto's FIOM-CGIL union have called for a global campaign of solidarity with Matteo Parlati, who is guilty of no crime.

Protest/solidarity email form:

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=1271

[NoPasaran1936]

Done, I wish the comrade victory in the courts, and hope he's okay from the attack.

[Anarchist Skinhead]

is the union calling for a solidarity with other accused from the same demo? Because they appeal is only for him...