Bologna: the eviction in via De Maria, clashes between police and protesters – The Republic

BOLOGNA – started this morning at dawn the evacuation of the building occupied in via Mario De Maria, 5, at the Bolognina, where more than two and a half years, dozens of families, Italian and foreign, with several minors. This is the last employment, housing brought forward by the collective Social Log, after the debris of the former Telecom building in via Mura di Porta Galliera. It has turned into a morning of tension in the whole district behind the station: clashes between police and activists who have blocked the roads between via Matteotti and the square of the Unit by reversing the dumpsters. Traffic in tilt.

The clashes. At dawn the armoured vehicles of the police and the police have closed the roads to the crossroads with via Tiarini and Nicholas street from the Ark. Also the entrance to the station of via Carracci is in the closed state, between the protests of commuters. From the windows of the building occupants began to shout “shame, Shame”, while in via dei Carracci, there is a garrison of about thirty activists, behind the banner: “The house is a right”. For the first time the print has been removed from the building that you are vacating, where Social Log speaks of the casualties among the occupants, including women and children. Off in the distance, the clashes between the police and the protesters. Most of the posts, the first paritta in via Carracci, then via Matteotti, where the traffic was blocked by the bins thrown into the street. Social Log a complaint that “during the eviction would have been used, the spray stinging, in spite of the’ inside the house there are children and sick people”.

The evacuation. Since the first morning, the occupants began to scream from the windows, “Shame, we will resist”. To ten has been liberated from the forces of the order of the first scale of the palace. The agents are entered from the windows of the top floors, with autoscale. The occupants have launched furniture parts and bleach from the windows. And denounced: “We are wounded”.

activists: “Where are the social services?”. On the spot fire-brigade, which, according to Social Log they would have already opened the main door of the building occupied, and the municipal police. “They have taken away water and light – he says Fulvio Social Log – are cutting the gates into the palace. The families are still determined to resist. We ask, where is the councilor of the Virginia house Gieri and where are the social services”. The counselor of the Coalition civic Emily Clancy deuncia that is prevented to attend the cleanup effort.
employment history. last July, according to Social Log – in within the building, from the time under seizure by the public Prosecutor, there were 34 households: about 120 persons, including 36 children. The building on via Mario De Maria, 5 busy on march 6, 2014 and belongs to the brothers Baschieri. That day, one of the owners told her he was assaulted with a punch in the stomach, while trying to close the side entrance of the building to keep out the occupants.

Towards the end of 2014, the property and cut off water to the building, and the Municipality decided to address the problem, asking Hera to supply the new tenants with the bags. Then in April of 2015 to resolve the health emergency, the mayor, Virginio Merola signed an ordinance urgent (as was the case for the ex-Telecom occupied) with which riallacciava the user, thereby triggering a firestorm of controversy because the decision of the municipal contrasted with article 5 of the Plan House of government. A choice that cost Merola and the councilors of Amelia Frascaroli and Riccardo Malagoli, accused of abuse of office by the Prosecutor’s office last march, however, at the end of the investigation the public prosecutor Antonello Gustapane and Antonella Scandellari have asked for storage for the three suspects, and two weeks ago the gip Mirko Margiocco has asked for further "in depth instructors" before making a decision, by shifting the hearing to November 24.

Between the Municipality and the owners, there is

been a long negotiation to enter the palace occupied in the "protocol for the use of unused buildings" and assign them to emergency housing, but the two sides remained always distant and has never been found an agreement. Last year, the 20 may, the Local and the social services were already presented in the via De Maria to run the attachment that hangs long on the building, but the attempt had not gone well.

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