Attivisti EveryOne: l'europarlamentare Renate Weber deposita interrogazioni parlamentari al Consiglio Europeo e alla Commissione Europea.
I due operatori umanitari sono stati condannati senza processo a un mese di carcere ciascuno, commutato in una gravosa sanzione pecuniaria. Il caso è già stato oggetto di un'interrogazione parlamentare in Italia, di una presa di posizione da parte di FrontLine - la principale organizzazione internazionale che tutela gli attivisti - e del sostegno di associazioni per i Diritti Umani, intellettuali, cittadini democratici di tutto il mondo.
Di seguito, le interrogazioni dell'eurodeputata Renate Weber, presentate al Consiglio europeo e alla Commissione europea grazie anche all'intervento del funzionario ALDE al Parlamento europeo Ottavio Marzocchi, membro dell'associazione radicale Certi Diritti, impegnato da tanti anni a difesa dei Diritti Umani.
Nella foto, l'eurodeputato Renate Weber
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
AUTHOR(S): Renate WEBER
To the: European Council and European Commission
SUBJECT: Sentencing of Human Rights Defenders in Italy because of their humanitarian work
On February 12th, 2010, Human rights defenders Mr Roberto Malini and Dario Picciau, co-presidents of EveryOne Group, international human rights organization based in Italy, received notification of a penal order, with the prison sentence commuted into a heavy fine of 2.280 euro, on the basis that “in complicity with each other, they caused the interruption, or at least disturbed a police operation aimed at identifying three foreign citizens, and used abusive language towards the officers from Pesaro-Urbino Police Headquarters, and interfered in the carrying out of their duty” in accordance with Articles 110 and 340 of the Italian Penal Code.
As for the case in question, Roberto Malini and Dario Picciau stated that on the evening of 20 December 2008 a police officer was talking in an inappropriate and arrogant manner to a young Roma man, Mr. Nico Grancea. When Malini and Picciau greeted Grancea - whom they knew very well as they had been offering him assistance for over a year - the officer ordered them to show their ID cards and took note of their details. Then the police officers (the second officer was in the car) left without issuing any notification. Throughout 2008 and in the early months of 2009 Malini and Picciau were repeatedly summoned to police headquarters because of their humanitarian work in defence of the Roma community living in Pesaro. After the protests of the Organization for the endless camp clearances of Roma families (without any offer of assistance) and the illegitimate expulsion of a group of Afghan refugees who had applied for asylum, the Pesaro Police Commissioner reportedly issued Roberto Malini a verbal warning on the following grounds: ‘Seeing the Roma are notorious criminals, I consider EveryOne Group part of a criminal organization and I invite it to cease its activity’. They were subjected to various episodes of intimidation and provocation, while the operations aimed at driving the Roma out of the city continued.
The foretold abuse took the form of intimidatory actions by the Italian authorities aimed at hindering activists’ work in defence of Roma people rights, which are being tragically trampled on throughout Italy at the present time.
What will the Commission do to ensure that human rights defenders are not harassed in EU Member States and to guarantee in all circumstances that they’re are able to carry out their human rights activities without fear of reprisals, threats and intimidation? What will it do to avoid a dangerous precedent that might jeopardize in future the legitimate commitment of human rights activists in Italy and in the EU? Will the Commission evaluate the severity of the police and judicial abuse being carried out against human rights defenders of the EveryOne Group?
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Articoli correlati
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/2375
http://lolodiklo.blogspot.com/2010/02/justice-in-italy.html
http://thegypsyconnection.blogspot.com/2010/02/urgetn-call-to-action-italy-human.html
http://sfoglia.corriereadriatico.it/Articolo?aId=959034
http://www.unionromani.org/notis/noti2010-02-22c.htm
http://www.protectionline.org/Roberto-Malini-and-Mr-Dario,9239.html
