WORLD WORLWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #35: Truth and justice for Moussa Diarra (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On October 20, they killed a boy. In Verona, at 7:00 in the morning,

Sunday. In front of the station. He had a name, Moussa Diarra. The first
reconstructions of the facts, in the joint statement from the Pretura
and the Police Headquarters, speak of an attack with a knife on railway
police officers, three shots fired "from close range", one of which
killed the young man. The media pick up the news, emphasizing the
alleged violence of the victim. The judge and the judged who, before the
investigations, affirm the same thing, already downgrading the case to
self-defense - the ghost of Genoa that returns, with Fini who, after
having been in the operations room of the police headquarters,
mediatically absolves the carabiniere who killed Carlo Giuliani. The
investigations entrusted to the police headquarters itself, as in the
case of the torture that occurred in its offices. The case seems already
solved. Except that Moussa is known and the associations that had tried
to help him get in the way (Laboratorio Autogestito Paratod@s first and
foremost). And the official version begins to show the first flaws, the
first adjustments, already after a few days, such as the distance that
is widening to 5 meters or the timing1. The autopsy on Thursday 24th,
moreover, confirms the fact that the shots cannot have been fired at
close range due to the absence of burns and casts doubt on both the
damage to the windows and the previous fight with the local police,
which would have occurred at least two hours before the killing without
any action being taken, given the lack of bruises or abrasions on the
hands2. Not to mention the hole in the glass on the other side of the
square, at zero elevation. So what happened? It will be up to a trial,
which promises to be long and tortuous, to establish it. But we can say
something, as Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfaù did in Il Manifesto3: a black
man was killed by a policeman. A man or, better, a 26-year-old boy of
Malian origin. A black boy (and skin color is decisive in this story)
who was killed several times, having first had to suffer the violence of
a country that did not want him (and that does not stop not wanting him,
with immigration legislation, with concentration camps in Libya and
Italy, with expulsion from the reception system, with the absence of
housing and care policies, with the semi-slave exploitation of the
workforce)4 and, after his death, media and institutional
criminalization. Institutions that rushed, without exception, to give
their support to the police. Not a doubt, no desire to understand, not
even after the alarms raised by the Council of Europe and the UN. More
generally, after Genoa a serious discussion on the police institution
has never opened. Because the police not only preserve the law,
producing insecurity while implementing security laws, but also poses
it, reproducing marginality with its differential application on
different subjectivities, with a profiling that racializes and
inferiors, with the exasperating delays in obtaining documents5. And it
does so in a more violent way than other institutions. This does not
mean that the impact that the latter have should be minimized. The
Municipality of Verona, for example, has never found a solution for the
approximately fifty people who had found refuge in the occupied house of
the Ghibellin Fuggiasco, including Moussa. Or the difficulty of
accessing adequate care from the National Health Service.

The reconstructions speak of an evident state of agitation in the boy,
while his friends have said that he had been suffering from depression
for some time. This mental distress needs time, a relational network,
the support of qualified operators and, yes, a considered
pharmacological treatment. He also needs a place to stay safe, where he
can hide when necessary. The color line also passes through here, the
privilege of whiteness also passes through here, the structural racism
that acts on people like Moussa every day passes through here. People,
it must be reiterated. To do so, to ask for truth and justice for his
murder and to oppose the liberticidal and racist laws of the government,
on Saturday 26 more than five thousand people took to the streets,
responding to the appeal of the High Council of Malians in Italy, the
Faso Yeredon association, Paratod@s and the many other associations that
joined. A demonstration of anger, determined but peaceful, despite what
the mainstream media and squalid government representatives say,
revealing their bad faith. The success of the day, however, is not
enough: now a period will begin in which media attention will wane and
silence will risk favoring oblivion on the matter. It will be up to all
of us to ensure that this does not happen, because this is not just a
local issue, but involves society as a whole. Concrete help, for those
who want and can, can be provided by contributing with a donation for
legal expenses and support for the family to the current account in the
name of "APS Equilibrio Precario" - IBAN: IT91X0501811700000011689940 -
reason: "Truth and justice for Moussa".

Niccolo Furri

1
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=963652502471123&set=pcb.963653312471042

2
https://www.veronasera.it/cronaca/primi-risultati-autopsia-moussa-diarra-25-october-2024.html

3
https://ilmanifesto.it/moussa-diarra-un-associazione-razziale-made-in-italy

4
https://www.ilpost.it/2024/10/24/verona-moussa-diarra-polizia/?homepagePosition=2

5
https://www.meltingpot.org/2024/08/limite-invalicabile-mette-sotto-accusa-la-questura-di-verona/#:~:text=%C2%ABLimite%20invalicabile%C2%BB%20%C3%A8%20un%20dossier,momento%20storico%20ce%20lo%20impone.

https://umanitanova.org/verita-e-giustizia-per-moussa-diarra/
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