From Il Rovescio Via Act for Freedom Now!
Following the great news of March 28th (https://www.msn.com/it-it/notizie/italia/vincenzo-vecchi-l-ultimo-anarc…), we receive and spread the following:
After numerous hearings, court proceedings, rulings for and against, opinion of the European court of justice etc. etc.
In France Vince is finally free.
In fact, after last Friday’s ruling effectively refusing to accept the European arrest warrant, the French prosecution decided not to appeal in cassation.
For years, as we walk through the streets of Lecco and throughout the peninsula, we often read on the walls the writing “Vince free”.
From today we can smilingly put an ‘is’ between the two words.
Genova is still burning
For anarchy
anarchist documentation centre l’Arrotino
via: ilrovescio.info
Translated by Act for freedom now!
[Italian to English machine translation of the MSN article linked above]
Vincenzo Vecchi, the last anarchist condemned for the G8 in Genoa: no extradition from France for him too
The case is solved. France denies the extradition of Giorgio Pietrostefani, the former Red Brigades and former "soldiers" of armed spontaneity , but it also denies it, and definitively, for Vincenzo Vecchi, 49, the last anarchist sentenced for devastation and looting during the three days of the G8 of Genoa 2001 . With a definitive sentence from 2012 to 13 years and 3 months in prison, Vecchi has never served a day in prison because he immediately managed to leave Italy, before the final verdict. After several unfavorable opinions on extradition, last Friday by the Court of Appeal, on the afternoon of Tuesday 28 March, the attorney general of Lyon renounced the appeal to the Cassation. And the case is closed.
The point of the whole story, on paper, is technical-juridical: France does not recognize the crime of devastation, which in Italy instead dates back to the fascist code and has been maintained over the decades. But among the folds of the French provisions there also seems to be a line derived (by the judges) from the Mitterand doctrine and from all that follows from it, with a sort of protection for potential "political prisoners" from other countries.
Thus Vecchi is the only one of a dozen convicted for damages to the G8 in Genoa (three highly contested days, which also led to convictions for top-level members of the police force)
At the time of his final conviction, in 2012, he was already on the run, only to be identified in France by Digos and Interpol in August 2019. He has always personally attended the hearings that concerned him.
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