Re: (en) Italy, Milano, Metropolix squat evicted

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From: springstof (springstof@antenna.nl)
Date: 03/03/00


On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 04:23:02PM -0500, Giuliano wrote:


hoihoi,

Youth Hostel Metropolix in Milaan is ontruimd!


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> Hi,
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> Punctual as promised, this early morning at 6.30 AM about 200 anti riot
> policemen showed up in the old, popular block of Milano Isola to evict the
> squatted youth hostel Metropolix.
> 
> They were welcomed by few hundreds activists which waited for them the
> whole night in front and inside the squat. But it was not a passive
> waiting: during the night, the activists have been building 4 or 5
> barricades with old furniture, tires, etc, blocking all accesses to the
> square where the squat to be evicted lays. And as soon as the police
> stepped out from their busses, the barricades were set on fire. Meanwhile,
> the press could follow everything thanks to a sort of turret built by the
> activists in the middle of the square.
> 
> These were only the first ones of a serie of civil resistance surprises.
> 
> Soon the whole block was filled with black smoke. The police tried to pass
> the blockade by foot, but also that wasn't easy due to the physical
> resistance of the camarades. Finally, after about one hour of riots, the
> cops succeeded and could enter the square -- only to run against another
> surprise.
> 
> The squat was completely isolated by a tall metal barrier, built with
> scaffolding irons. The resisting activists quickly runned behind it,
> opposing even more resistance because the police could not reach them with
> their sticks. At that point they lost their heads, and started to shoot
> teargas bombs at men's height. But the barrier kept, and the whole area was
> filled with teargas. And even journalists cried.
> 
> This second confrontation lasted another hour, then the camarades retreated
> all together, in order, so to avoid people being taken and arrested,
> positiong themself on a corner of the square and keeping compact as a
> single body. Everybody had instructions and everybody knew what to do. As
> usual in Milan, no hooliganism was allowed.
> 
> The police had thus free access to the squat, but here another surprise:
> inside the house, in this last days, activists have been actively building
> walls, reinforcing doors, making holes in the ground, so that the whole
> squat was turned into a huge trap. It took them a good half an hour to
> reach the roof, where the last surprise waited them.
> 
> 5 camarades where there ready with cords. As soon as the first cop showed
> up, they lowered themselves down, hanging midway between the roof and the
> ground, at about 10 meters height.
> 
> Riots stopped and firekeepers, ambulances, helicopters and Tvs arrived (the
> usual mess you can imagine). But the 5 protesting activists refused to be
> helped as long as the Head of Milan police did not promise to let them and
> the other camarades go without identifying/ prosecuting anybody. When the
> agreement was reached, they let themselves to be helped down and went away
> with the other camarades waiting them. It was half past ten -- it took
> police 4 hours to overcome resistance.
> 
> There are no news of arrestations, and it seems that nobody was seriuosly
> wounded -- no policeman, no demonstrant. Thus, the demonstrative action had
> a full success. Metropolix is lost -- a 2 years long experience of
> self-managed, self-organized antagonist youth hostel which hosted last year
> hundreds and hundreds of young people unable to pay hotel fares, besides
> the 40 people living in it. A social and political answer to the lack of
> homes for young people suffered in this city delivered, bonded hands and
> feet, to the speculative powers of large corporations.
> 
> And as it happened with the "Deposito Bulk", a big squat evicted in
> December which occupied another place on New Year's Eve, also Metropolix
> plans to get back with another occupation in the next days. One lost, one
> taken. That's the rule. Corporative powers are learning it.
> 
> Giuliano
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