Friday, January 27, 2017

Modena, two trade unionists arrested: “Estorcevano money to hold a strike”. “The repression of the masters” – Il fatto Quotidiano

The Police of Modena has arrested the national coordinator of the union S. I. Cobas, Aldo Milani and a consultant of statutory auditors, Danilo Programs, with the accusation of extortion aggravated and continued towards the group of Holy Levoni, active in the meat processing industry. The men of the team mobile surprised, with a hidden camera, the passage of a white envelope from one of the two members of the company (which was in agreement with the Police), at the same Piccinini in the video sitting at the table next to Milan i.

According to the indictment, the two suspects on Thursday, 26th January, would have collected 5 euro a total that would have been agreed to, to 90 thousand euros. The amount of money would have been agreed upon for the "manufacturer" the protest activities, and picket in respect of the companies of the group. Just in the past few months there had been protests and demonstrations by workers, to the loss of work by fifty of them in the establishments of the group in province of Modena. The protests, which were guided by the same abbreviation of statutory auditors, which culminated in a case with clashes with the police in seal anti-riot.

The investigations of the mobile squad of Modena, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Claudia Natalini, started last January 13, when the contractors have filed a complaint pointing out that it would have been to act as a attempt racketeering. "You ask for money in exchange for ensuring the social peace", explained the prosecutor of Modena Lucia Musti.

"Milani rejects the accusations of extortion and denied having ever taken money in this affair, and in the context of his activity as a trade unionist," he said Marina Prosperi, advocate of the Milani, at the exit from the prison, where you have made a visit to his assisted. According to the legal, Milani was there for a normal union negotiations: "In the specific case it was going to define the position of workers and what would have been their fate, in this moment, without compensation or livelihood". Finally, the lawyer distinguishes the position of a trade unionist from the other investigated: "Milani explained to me that Piccinini is not part of the union, and is the only one to get something (the bag, as you can see from the video, ndr), in a context, which will later be explained. The audio of the video will help to clarify the role of this person in this story, a role independent and distinct".

To communicate the arrest of Milani had been the same union S. I. Cobas in a statement released shortly before midnight on January 26. "In the late afternoon of today, our national coordinator Aldo Milani has been picked up by police. It is clear – you read in the press – that we are faced with a escalation of repression unprecedented: the state of the masters, not being able to stop with the layoffs, the threats, the hundreds of complaints, the sheets, the beatings and tear, a struggle which in these years has unroofed the sewer of exploitation in the logistics and the elaborate system of collusion and complicity between employers, institutions and cooperative system, now he tries to stop anyone who dared to disturb the driver".

Shortly after, around the hours of 1 and 30, the page facebook has appeared a new note of the national leadership, which explained how the Milani was "stopped in full power of the prerogatives of the trade unions, a negotiating table".From the night between the 26th and the 27th there were pickets of protest and strikes of the members of the S. I. Cobas in different parts of the North of Italy. the Bologna Milan,Peschiera Borromeo, university of Parma, Segrate. In the afternoon a protest was held even in the face of prison of Modena. The union S. I. Cobas in these years is very active on the home front logistics and porterage, and many of its members are foreign workers, mostly in the north of Italy.

in the Meantime came the distance of the Cobas-confederazione dei Committees: "we are Not able to say anything on the matter, and we hope to get as soon as possible more and more detailed information, and we hope that those arrested are able to refute the accusations. In the meantime, however, we invite all the media to avoid any confusion between the Cobas and the so-called S. I. Cobas," he wrote in a note , Piero Bernocchi, spokesman for the national Cobas.

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