Trieste, double parade: CasaPound and the antifascists on the square – Chronicle

Trieste, November 3, 2018 – Two street parades in Trieste. From one side CasaPound, who celebrated the victory of Italy 100 years ago of the Great War, the other the counter – demonstration of the antifascist network, organized by CGIL and ANPI.
Two other opposing ideas can not, and the participants they almost touched, remaining several hundred meters from each other. With the means of maintaining order to keep the area blocking the road in order to prevent the protesters from coming in contact.

OPPOSED BANNERS – The division is also visible in windows: "Trieste pro patria"reads a banner on a balcony surrounded by big tricolor flags on the adjacent balconies." The Italian Constitution is anti-fascist ", replies to a few hundred meters a white sheet with a black inscription glued to another balcony, balconies and windows that display flags and banners in favor of one side or the other. # 39; other.

CORTEO ANTIFASCISTE – The procession of the anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-badist network of Trieste, gathering about 4,500 protesters according to the police (and seven thousand according to the organizers), began in Campo San Giacomo and opens with the banner "Let's get rid of fascisms"There are many flags and slogans: the promoters ask to" take back possession of the city and put an end to the invasion of CasaPound ".
From the parade they are part dozens of badociations, unions, students, families, but also political exponents who joined, as Pd, Pci and LeU.

"A month and a half of mobilization – explain the organizers of a speaker – for a protest against the rhetoric of CasaPound, against the use of history that neo-fascists use as a club against the History of this city, openness to the other ". And they badure: "We are more beautiful, happier, more colorful of them and it's a welcoming place, even for those who come from far away. In short, no tolerance towards the intolerant. They want to divide us to unite. "

To close the event, the anti-fascist supporter Lidia Menapace: "This is an extraordinary day, we are people, young, old, old, we all agree, united and united, in our differences in antifascist values ​​- he said – our unit exercised and not being shouted is a huge force. " peace it's a very important thing and the risks are very high right now, "he says, always telling himself" a 95 year old girl"" People – he continued – can resist, scoring, I do not say a victory, but a bit of success. "

CASAPOUND – Started from largo Riborgo, while the speakers mounted on vehicles Spring Vivaldi, the parade organized by CasaPound. At the head of the parade, between tricolor fumigants, there are many labari, including that of the national federation Arditi of Italy with the gold medals and the National Arma Militia Association. Here are the tricolores, the flags of the flags CasaPound, Istrien, Fiume and Dalmatian. And still the banner with red background and written in white "" Defend Italy until the victory ", and yet another banner, even red but with a black and white writing"Italy: get up, fight, win!".
According to the organizers, they are about to two thousand participants, from all over Italy: more than 30 coaches arrived in Trieste in Piedmont, Abruzzo, Veneto and Sicily. In the end there was a symbolic ceremony dedicated to the unity of the land: the new sections of the movement, born after 2015 and originating from different regions of Italy, have brought small parts of the land from their place of origin conferred to a single inferno as symbol of the land unit of Italy. The ceremony took place in front of the monument dedicated to Domenico Rossetti.