The former Italian activist, arrested in France, then released, finds himself this Friday, October 2 in the court of Angers. A new episode in this never-ending judicial soap opera.
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Vincenzo Vecchi, 47, was appearing this Friday, October 2 in front of a court, that of Angers, while the Rennes Court of Appeal released him in November 2019.
Back on a never-ending story that has its source in 2001.
Genoa, the anti-G8 demonstration and Vincenzo Vecchi
July 2001, G8 summit. Demonstrations are held. Vincenzo Vecchi is in the midst of these 300,000 people who challenge globalization. Policemen and activists clash. Violently. Dozens of people injured and one dead. Vincenzo Vecchi, he is accused of having participated in this counter-summit and finds himself sentenced to 12 years in prison for “complicity in devastation and plunder“. Charges disputed by the defense. He will then be sentenced to 4 years in prison for his presence in a demonstration against the far-right in Milan in 2006. Vincenzo Vecchi serves part of his sentence, then takes refuge in France. The Italian state has been condemned three times by the European Court of Human Rights for not having prosecuted the perpetrators of police violence during the G8 summit, as well as for inhuman and degrading treatment.
Rochefort-en-Terre, and mobilization.
Refugee in Morbihan, he finds work. A house painter, he has lived in Rochefort-en-Terre for 8 years, when he was arrested in August 2019, following the arrest warrant issued by Italy. He is 46 years old. Placed in detention, the Rennes Court of Appeal frees him, arguing in part that the procedure was irregular, in particular that the offense must be classified identically in the two countries in this case “complicity in devastation and looting “. If the latter has existed since the Mussolini era in Italy, there is no equivalent in France. Vincenzo Vecchi was released in November 2019.
Yes, but in December, the Court of Cassation overturned the Rennes decision. And asks for the judgment to be moved to Angers.
Since his arrest, a collective support for Vincenzo Vecchi has been created.
The report from France 3 Bretagne, shot in 2019 on the creation of the support collective.
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France 3 Brittany report
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He sent an open letter to the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, to alert him to “Mr Vecchi’s convictions, pronounced within the framework of an Italian criminal law which takes into account group responsibility, ignores the presumption of innocence, individual responsibility in a crime and the notion of proof. However, these elements are not only a foundation of French criminal law but also that of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.“.
A hundred people are expected in front of the Angers court, Friday October 2
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Intellectuals also mobilized such as the 2017 Goncourt Prize, Eric Vuillard, who published a tribune .
An intolerable situation for those who support Vincenzo Vecchi. This Italian anti-globalization activist is threatened with being handed over to the Italian authorities under a European arrest warrant (EAW) issued by Rome.
Around a hundred members of the collective have planned to go to Angers this Friday, October 2.
A reminder of the facts with Eric Aubron from France 3 Pays-de-la-Loire
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Recall of the facts of the trial of the Italian activist Vincenzo Vecchi in Angers
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