Always Standing by Juan, Sentenced to 5 Years in the Brescia Trial
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"On Thursday, January 15, our friend and comrade Juan was sentenced to 5 years for “acts with terrorist intent” (article 280bis) in the Brescia trial for the action against POLGAI.…"
Always Standing by Juan, Sentenced to 5 Years in the Brescia Trial
On Thursday, January 15, our friend and comrade Juan was sentenced to 5 years for “acts with terrorist intent” (article 280bis) in the Brescia trial for the action against POLGAI. If this conviction were to become final, Juanito’s sentence, currently set for 2045, would be extended even further. Given the fragility of the investigation and the evidence against him, which was consistently contested by the defense, one could have hoped for an acquittal. This was not the case: evidently, the Brescia judges and the lay judges who composed the Assize Court, with their usual cowardice and indifference to the lives of others, did not want to throw away an investigation that had lasted years and cost many thousands of euros, since it had reached the third attempt to attribute responsibility for the action to Juan (and initially also to another comrade, who was later definitively exonerated). For our part, while we await the appeal, we continue our mobilization alongside our Juan: if he is “innocent,” he deserves all our solidarity; if he is “guilty,” he deserves even more!
WE NEVER FORGET OUR COMRADES! FREE JUAN, DOWN WITH THE POLGAI!
Comrades
To continue writing to the comrade:
Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernandez
C.C. of Terni
strada delle Campore 32
05100 TerniBelow is the flyer distributed the following day (at the hearing in L’Aquila where Anan Yaeesh was convicted and elsewhere):
Always alongside Juan, Anan, Ali, and Mansour
Yesterday, January 15, 2025, our friend and comrade Juan was sentenced in the first instance by the Brescia court to an additional 5 years of prison. The act he is accused of is a 2015 bombing in the same city against the POLGAI, a structure that collaborates with police forces in various countries in riot control and counterinsurgency techniques.
When the purveyors of state terror see a small portion of their violence returned, the political police and the judiciary work tirelessly to find those responsible for such an affront—let no one dare challenge the bourgeois and state monopoly on violence!—to the point that this is the third time Juan has been investigated for the same act. This time, the judicial farce has succeeded in convicting our comrade.
What is the ultimate expression of the state monopoly on violence? War. And while the various scientific-military-industrial complexes are dragging us toward World War III—of which the ongoing genocide in Gaza is the most brutal foreshadowing—the rearguard of this total mobilization must remain pacified. This is why there is a crackdown on any form of non-symbolic struggle (think of the repressive measures against demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the drastic increase in penalties for roadblocks, for actions opposing major works construction sites, or even for simply distributing texts deemed “inciting”). This is why there are the beatings of students with truncheons or the employer-judicial reprisals against porters. This is why there are the conscription orders for strikes. This is why there are constant investigations against comrades. This is why the 41-bis prison regime applied to Alfredo Cospito. This is why there is an attack on anarchist ideas and publications.
In times of war, the pantomime of guarantees ends. The state shows its face and its hammer. The boundaries between the external and internal fronts become increasingly blurred; the immigrant in struggle is confused with the antagonist, the uprisings in the suburbs push the antimilitarist movements into the belly of the beast.
Today, January 16, the final hearing of the first instance trial against Palestinian prisoner Anan Yaeesh, along with co-defendants Mansour and Ali, is being held in the L’Aquila courthouse, during which the sentencing will likely take place.
Although Anan’s resistance in the Palestinian territories is legitimate even according to the crumbling foundations of international law, and although it is widely known that Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured in Israeli prisons, the Italian judges classify armed resistance against Zionist genocidal colonialism as “terrorism,” the same charge leveled against Juan for his actions against POLGAI. Let us remember that this organization has been active in Brescia since 1974 (the year of the Piazza della Loggia massacre) and that it collaborates with Israeli police forces. And let us remember that in the province of Brescia (Ghedi) lies a key hub of Western imperialism actively complicit in the endless slaughter of the Palestinian people: a NATO base stocked with nuclear bombs capable of disintegrating entire populations. The circle is complete.
After Juan’s conviction, therefore, in expressing our solidarity and closeness, we cannot help but have the same thought even more strongly in mind:
For a global Intifada of the oppressed. To transform the war of the bosses into a war against the bosses.
Comrades
Here in PDF: Juan-Anan sentences
Source: ilrovescio.info/2026/01/17/sem…
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Roberto
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