LETTERS
Dear Anarchist Communist Federation comrades,
I am Silvano Pelissero and I am enclosed in a house prison.
I write only French and Spanish. I can write to you in English because today I have a friend that helps me.
I received with pleasure your magazine, Organise!. I read your article, the Repression in Italy with interest. But I must bring to your attention a big mistake. On 6th March 1998 the police arrested 3 anarchist squatters: Silvano Pelissero; Eduardo Massari and Soledad Maria Rosas. Massimo Passamani was arrested, if I remember well, in the spring of 1996. He was arrested in a Paris street and he was accused of giving a false passport to the police. In Italy Massimo was accused of being a militant in the 'Revolutionary Organisation of Anarchist Insurrectionalists (ORAI). We anarchists know that the ORAI is an imaginary creation of Judge Antonio Marini. Comrade Massimo is actually at liberty, on parole.
I was arrested on the streets of Valusa. Soledad and Eduardo were arrested in the squat in Collegmo city called "The House". Edo and Sole were held in the prison of Torino city. On 28th March 1998 Edo Massare committed suicide in Vallette Prison (Torino). Sole was released from prison and was put under house arrest in a village near Cuneo called Benevagienna. After Edo's death I was transferred to a special prison in Novara city where there are other anarchist comrades and a lot of comrades of the Red Brigades.
I want to remind you that in Novara prison there is also the well known Swiss comrade, Marco Camenisch
In June 1998 I started a hunger strike in protest against the repression and against the manufactured 'VALSUSA-TAV-GREY WOLVES'. On 11th July 1998 Maria Soledad Rosas committed suicide. After a new state murder and my hunger strike I was transferred to Sanponso.
The situation now: The trial against me starts on 22nd February. I am accused of terrorism and of being a militant of the 'Grey Wolves'. My defence is very difficult because there is a lot of forged evidence against for the prosecution. This evidence is the work of a secret service infiltrator. The same forged evidence determined 5 year prison sentence for Pratizia Maria Grazia Cadeddu. The Marini ORAI trial is continuing in Rome in spite of made-up evidence. International solidarity is very important however because this trial goes unnoticed by the European community. I send you a document for my liberation, Please translate it and spread it.
See you son,
A revolutionary salutation
Silvano Pelissero