Free Trieste

UPDATE: in July 2017 the Court declared that Free Trieste’s demonstration was not subversive, read more HERE

Roberto Giurastante, Free Trieste’s President, during a sit-in in front of the local Court.

Trieste, 29 February 2016. – On Monday evening (29.2) at the Court of Trieste, ended the third hearing of Criminal Trial No. 840/2014 against Free Trieste’s heads and some of its activists who took part to a peaceful demonstration in defense of the international Free Port of the Free Territory of Trieste, established with the 1947 Treaty of Peace with Italy and entrusted, since 1954, to the Italian Government – not to the State of Italy – under a mandate of temporary civil administration.

The Free Trieste Movement did therefore request that prior to the discussion in the merit, the judge declares if he is willing to exercise the jurisdiction of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste entrusted to the Italian Government of the jurisdiction of the State of Italy, lodging a new act that confirms the legal status of the Free Territory on the bases of recent document S/2015/809 of the United Nations Security Council, referring also to the Italian Constitutional Legal Order.

Since the judge refused to esaminate the new act, the accused persons who belong to Free Trieste left the Courtroom declaring that, as citizens of the Free Territory they do not recognise this decision of the Court. The Movement considers that in Trieste, Italian magistrates are «illegally subject to significant political pressure wen it comes to jurisdiction» and that the questioning of witnesses has already proved «that the allegations used to open this trial are unfounded, making it a merely political trial, thus unacceptable».

Press Office of the Free Trieste Movement