[Genoa, Italy] Solidarity with the prisoners of the Marassi prison 

Inferno Urbano, 1^st April 2020

Translated by act for freedom now!

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They say that the health of a democracy can be found in the health of its prisons. So we can say that Italy is a patient in a deep coma. Only in 2019, 143 people died [in prison] of whom 53 committed suicide, and in 2020 we’ve already 41 deaths of which 13 suicides. So much for prisoners’ rehabilitation!

Far be it for us to think that prisons are places of recovery and rehabilitation; as far as we’re concerned, these structures are to be destroyed. A death in prison, whatever its causes, is to be attributed to the state of imprisonment, to those who institute and run these  concrete hells: the State! The prisoners’ protests at the beginning of March gave us courage and strength, so we thought it right to let them know that there are people outside who support them with small gestures of solidarity. At the beginning of the month we went outside the abominable walls of the Marassi prison several times, making our complicity heard with firecrackers, smoke bombs and unfurling banners.

During the exercise yard time, we threw tennis balls over the wall containing a text with information and solidarity with the prisoners in struggle and updates on what’s going on in the other Italian prisons.

The response to our first attempts was always immediate and passionate, in time it got weaker, probably due to pressure from within the prison system. We felt that penal questions weren’t strong enough deterrents to extinguish our desire to be close to prisoners in struggle at this moment.

OUR LOVE OF FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ALL AUTHORITY!

FIRE TO THE PRISONS!

FREEDOM FOR ALL!