But look at the twists of life… A nice 700-gram block of hashish inside a refrigerator within a room on the seventh floor of that huge Roman social experiment called Spin Time.
Given the quantity found by the police on Saturday, along with box cutters, aluminum foil, and a scale, the hypothesis of drug dealing is almost certain. But how? Right in that building often frequented by progressive politicians hunting for votes and by intellectuals and celebrities seeking notoriety? Really? How strange… The cherry on a cake already rich with ingredients: from illegal construction to unauthorized housing, passing through unauthorized food and drink service and unreported events. Lots of revenue, zero euros in taxes paid. Now, nothing is missing.
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SAVIANO’S BOUTADE
The grand vizier of all moralizers, Roberto Saviano, also recently seen at the partially emptied building after a fire, a few days ago declared that occupation is not like Casapound, implying a very different quality. Saviano is right: inside the “comrades” building no drugs have ever been found. But those are details… Let’s not bet on the distancing by the left – institutional and artistic – because the stakes are too low: the silence of Spin Time’s sponsors is more predictable than a fixed win on Psg-Acireale. Obviously, the drug issue does not affect the residents of the building illegally occupied since 2013. Yesterday, solidarity activities continued without batting an eye. Workshops and animated readings for children (the latter organized by Rome Capital’s libraries), DJ sets, an intervention by actress-activist Anna Foglietta, a puppet show, karaoke, and the usual communal dinner. All together passionately. After all, what are 700 grams of hashish to scrape together some money? It will be one of the stops in the cultural and social design of the movement…
UNITED CENTER-RIGHT
Meanwhile, the center-right is on the barricades. “Drug dealing was missing at the festival of illegality. Spin Time was a drug dealing spot: far from a model of inclusion and solidarity. Faced with such facts, the occupation, already illegal in itself, is indefensible. Those who legitimized this situation should at least have the courage to distance themselves. No more ambiguity: the building must be cleared and legality must return to being the rule, not an option, no matter what the left, always skilled at being on the wrong side, thinks,” attacks Paolo Trancassini, deputy of Brothers of Italy and regional coordinator of the Meloni faction in Lazio. Maurizio Gasparri, senator of Forza Italia, hits hard: “Do the defenders of illegality and an occupation that has lasted too long also cover for drug dealers who have infiltrated among the occupants? Certainly not all were engaged in such activities, but the significant quantity of hashish found, in the way it was packaged, makes it clear that everything was going on inside.
Including drug dealing. Those who went to defend a place and behaviors that represent the synthesis of violations of almost all the criminal code norms should apologize.” For the League, it is the group leader in the City Council, Fabrizio Santori, who intervenes: “At Spin Time we witness continuous mobilization, while hashish ready for dealing was even found in the occupied building. Rome now seems governed with double standards, but Romans who respect the rules cannot become second-class citizens.”
The occupants, many still camped on the sidewalk (the Municipality has found alternative accommodation for 160 people), have launched an appeal: shower gels and deodorants, large suitcases and backpacks are needed. We hope it’s to put clothes in, nothing else…
