Here is the article in the book of Mark Preve "Trenette and bricks - Stories of cement in Liguria "
Conviction for a concrete anti banner
Chiavari, protest costs € 1250
At the heart of the dispute between the construction of a silo in the Garden Square, the police after a phone call
Unwind on a sidewalk a banner against the concrete, without insulting anyone, and do not obstruct the traffic, it can cost a penalty of five days of arrest sympathetically converted to a fine of € 1,250 for the offense of "unauthorized demonstration". Certainly can not surprise the fate of an activist Legambiente, when you consider the recurring events in which you make with impunity apologia of fascism or the parades and the ultras that devastate offend institutions and law enforcement. The fact is that the incident happened in Chiavari, whose mayor Vittorio Agostino resents the accusations of environmental labels. And many people share his thinking. It would have been a phone call to urge the police to intervene to review, on February 24 last year, that peaceful and cold garrison Legambiente that exposed a revolutionary banner that read "Stop the Concrete" in the Garden Square, where it must rise to a contesting silo. So the agents discovered that the activists had forgotten to give notice to the police within three days preceding the event as stipulated in the consolidated public safety laws. Legambiente has however decided to oppose the penal order and it will be relying on a lawyer, the lawyer Paolo Bongiorni.
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