A-Infos (en) No Extradition for the Militant Italian Revolutionaries

[Dale Pfeiffer <Pfeif324@concentric.net>]

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Du Français.

No extradition for militants Massimo Passamani,
Free Pinna and Alfredo Davanzo

For 20 years, the French State has adopted an ambiguous
attitude as to the presence on its territory of  Italian
political refugees.

In spite of all, they allowed people to settle, some officially,
others unofficially, exiles of violence and of repression based
on torture, on forced repentance and on denouncement,
involved in inexplicable legal situations and haunted by
disproportionate sorrows.  The repression from which they
have fled has oppressed all through an arsenal of laws of
exception.  France offers these political refugees the choice
between the carrot in one hand and the stick in the other.

The carrot offered is the monthly or quarterly residence
permit which must be regularly renewed through the years.
The stick holds the threat of expulsion to a third country
from which Italy will be able to discretely extradite them.

Today, whereas many of the prison sentences that these
refugees are facing were due to fall in regulation, Italian
justice has grown fierce, renewing demands for extradition
which have posed unresolved for upwards to twenty
years, never acted upon by the French governments,
either right or left.

Justice has grown fierce because of a plan to resolve
the question of political refugees relating to the adherence
of Italy, at the end of March 1998, to the agreements of
Schengen.  Could they foresee the application of penalties
anywhere in Europe, should they have then made the
agreement retroactive?  Is it a matter of removing all
possibility of refuge in European space, though this
refuge had never been clearly recognized and was
tolerated on an individual basis.
Today, the menace weighs upon:

- Massimo Passamani, libertarian militant, in
France only 8 months, caught up in the
doubtful accusations of some repentant
snitch.

- Franco Pinna, requested twice in 17 years
for his involvement in the Italian revolutionary
movement in the seventies.  The first request
not having been put into execution in 1980,
this makes 20 years that Franco has lived
and worked in France.

- Alfredo Davanzo had already lived in
France for ten years when he became a
refuge after several years of preventive
detention in Italy.  He is wanted for the
appurtenance of wearing an arm band
and for no other concrete reason, an
offense which concerns a legislation of
exception.

Do not speak of the complicity of French
justice in the employ of Italian history, which
has made political prisoners of thousands.

In January 1998, Greek justice said no to
the extradition of Enrico Bianco, accused
along with Franco Pinna.

We demand the immediate release of these
three militant prisoners.

Committee against the extradition of revolutionary militants
At " the Opened House,"
17 street Hoche 93100 Montreuil

Last minute: a fourth Italian militant, Sergio
Tornaghi, was arrested Friday, January 30
1998.  In France since 1980 the Court of
criminal appeal has issued an unfavorable
report with its extradition in 1985.

Numbers of the imprisoned

- Alfredo Davanzo
267952C
Bloc D1311
Maison d'arrêt de la Santé
42 rue de la Santé
75674 Paris Cedex 14

- Massimo Passamani
Ecrou 265798M1/100
Maison d'arrêt de la Santé
42 rue de la Santé
75674 Paris Cedex 14





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