About six hundred people took part in the protest march against the Nato Mare Aperto 2022 exercises , in front of the Teulada shooting range . Three buses arrived from Cagliari but many arrived by car this morning .
Several anti-militarist movements and the Sardinian independence forces ask for a stop to the "war games" and the imposing presence of military servants on the island , where 35 thousand hectares of territory are bound by the stars and where there are the three largest military polygons of Europe, Quirra-San Lorenzo, Capo Frasca and Teulada .
THE COURT - The demonstrators reached the second entrance of the Teulada military polygon and twice tried to approach the fence that borders the base but gave up in front of the massive array of Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza.
The procession then returned to Sant'Anna Arresi . The queue of demonstrators, with helmets and a banner made of shields, advanced walking backwards and chanting slogans against the police. No confrontation , but only a symbolic action: about 5 meters of the base fence were cut .
"The war in Ukraine is very close and probably has also been partly prepared here in Sardinia since the Ukrainian army has been practicing here in recent years precisely in view of what would have happened", said Mauro Aresu of the Assembly of A Foras .
The new secretary of Liberu Giulia Lai explains that "in this historical period it becomes increasingly important to focus our attention on the power of the Sardinians to decide on their land. We have already denounced the fact that these military exercises are carried out beyond the boundaries of the polygons since 2017. military and now with the advent of war it becomes almost normal to accept the presence of thousands of men in uniform ".
According to Bustianu Cumpostu of Sardigna Natzione Indipendentzia, "we must make it clear that Sardinia is not a rock that can be used for military purposes but there is a people who absolutely do not want their land to be used to train and carry that war to other parts. of the world. And he does not want it to be used to produce weapons either: we are also here to give a sign of peace ".
THE RAID - After days of controversy, the tension increased further on Friday night when a group of people still to be identified threw a Molotov cocktail and balloons full of red paint against the Military Command of the Army in via Torino in Cagliari : the Digos investigations they are focusing on anarchist-antagonist groups .
At the disposal of the investigators the videos of the numerous surveillance cameras but also those of some cell phones that have resumed the final phase of the blitz .
The raid was condemned by the whole political world , by the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati , by the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini , to the President of the Sardinia Region Christian Solinas and also by the Anpi : "Gestures like this - they say from the association of partisans - are not compatible with the request, which the Anpi has also made, for a stop to the military exercises in progress in the seas and polygons of the south of the island ".
(Unioneonline / D)