THE CAMERA PLACED IN THE TELECOM CONTROL UNIT
HIDDEN CAMERAS TO CONTROL FREE TRIESTE’s SUPPORTERS?
They came at 4.30AM, accompanied by the Telecom technicians who placed the camera in the control unit at the front-door of a building in Via Roma 3.
This is where stands a kiosk that sells and distributes the Free Trieste Movement’s depliant and news, so many members and supporters of the Movements go there. It is one many local businesses that promote the Movement’s stand for legality, they are actually increasing, because a lot of people support the actions to re-establish the rights of the Triestines, denied by the local Italian authorities for decades.
Rights that are established by law – even Italian laws.
This is the price of a long simulation of Italian sovereignty, which breaches the 1947 Treaty that established Trieste as an independent State with an international Free Port.
In 1954, the Italian Government committed to respect this State as it became its temporary civill administering Government, but the local nationalistic establishment, taking advantage of the Cold War tensions, has not complied with this mandate.
Obviously, revealing such truths is inconvenient for a local lobby that uses nationalism to protect itself: the Free Trieste Movement wants to re-establish the rule of law, but the local nationalistic “camorra” would rather see Trieste sinking in poverty and its international Free Port’s traffics diverted on Italian ports.
This is the same local lobby that is, destroying Trieste’s economy, maritime trades and its environment.
The difference is not in-name only: Trieste is being forced to pay the huge Italian taxes, all while its precious free zones are neglected and half of its port, the Northern Free Port, is threatened with an illegal housing speculation.
One theft after another, the tooth strikes the bone, a bone to be picked clean before abandoning the corpse of what user to be the second city of Austria-Hungary.
But the awakening of the people of Trieste, unwilling to bear this nationalistic camorra’s (mis)government worries those responsible for it: for years, they were unchallenged, unpunished, profiting from Trieste’s ruin. “Cosa nostra” could have not developed any better, maybe because it does not hide behind anachronistic nationalism.
Maybe the police should check also on the local establishment, not only on the people that denounce it.
Translated from blog “Ambiente e Legalità” – “Environment and Legality” by Roberto Giurastante