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Padua, Italy, the coordinator of the IAI accused of defending a family against eviction, call for international mobilization

Padova, Italia, Il coordinatore IAI incriminato per aver difeso una famiglia dallo sfratto, appello alla mobilitazione internazionale

The Court in Padua has summoned Cesare Ottolini, global coordinator of the IAI, accused of “aggravated private violence” for successfully defending a family of migrants against eviction from their home. The family is one of many families defended over 40 years of struggle for the right to housing in his city and on all continents.Call for international mobilization.

Italian Tenants’ Union – we’ll reply blow for blow when under attack for our solidarity

Unione Inquilini: sotto attacco la solidarietà, risponderemo colpo su colpo

24 May 2018 - Denunciations, including claims for damages, continue against activists defending families from eviction.

Yesterday, just after Cesare Ottolini, secretary of Padova Tenants’ Union, and a member of the Italian Tenants’ Union’s national secretariat, as well as global coordinator of the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), was charged to appear in court, Michelangelo Di Beo, a fellow member of the Italian Tenants’ Union’s national secretariat, has in turn been charged to appear in court for having defended a family during an anti-eviction picket. The same story for another member of the Tenants’ national secretariat, Laura Boy, who has also been charged to appear in court for the occupation of an abandoned and dilapidated building.