
In the appeal process on the Askatasuna case, the activist Dana Lauriola rejected the accusation of criminal association, defining the social center as a media "bogeyman" to belittle the No Tav movement.
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The Askatasuna maxi trial sees several people accused of criminal conspiracy, after the first degree ended with acquittal.
“Askatasuna has become the perfect bogeyman, the perfect enemy.” Dana Lauriola, historic activist of the former Turin social center, said this today in the Court of Appeal during the trial where together with 15 companions she is accused of criminal association.
The woman spoke about it to answer a question about the content of an interception from a few years ago: "I think - as she explained the meaning of the conversation - that using the scarecrow of Askatasuna to weaken and belittle the No Tav movement is a strategy widely used on a media level. And I don't agree with it. I thought so then and I thought so today".
Lauriola also specified that he participated in the activities of the No Tav movement in the Susa Valley, where he lives, in a "more continuous and consistent" manner. "For months - she then underlined - I was subjected to telephone and thematic wiretaps.
Three bedbugs were placed in my house. I have never hoped for or evoked violence or clashes with the police. I hope this has some value."
The Askatasuna maxi trial ended, in the first instance, with the acquittal of the defendants on the charge of criminal conspiracy.

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