from thefreeonline 0n 24th Oct 2023 by Redazione Adnkronos , anarchistnews and ANSA English
(ANSA) -Dolce, 37, from Trieste, who is now in prison at Imperia, was identified at the end of a complex investigation involving the DIGOS security police in Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Genoa and Brescia.
Dolce has several previous convictions and has been in prison in Tolmezzo, Ferrara – where he was detained together with anarchist leader Alfredo Cospito – and Modena. He must serve 3 years, 6 months and 15 days in prison for his political activism.
The fugitive anarchist from Trento, Luca Dolce, known by the pseudonym ‘Stecco’, has been arrested by the State Police. Captured by the Nocs of the State Police near Bordighera, in the province of Imperia, at the end of a complex investigation by the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police which had set up a working group with the Digos of Trento, Trieste, Treviso, Genoa and Brescia. Fugitive since 2021, at the time of his capture he had a false identity card.
At the same time as his capture, various searches were carried out in Trento, Trieste and Liguria conducted by Digos personnel aimed at crystallising places and contacts functional to Dolce’s fugitive status.
The anarchist was taken to Imperia prison to await immediate trial as he was responsible for possessing false identification documents. He will also have to serve a sentence of 3 years and 6 months for convictions that have become final and serve the precautionary measure in prison pending for another proceeding.
Who is Luca Dolce, known as ‘Stecco’
Luca Dolce, 37 years old, is originally from Trieste and has become an integral part of the Trentino anarcho-insurrectionist group since 2009, engaged in propaganda activities, contributing to the drafting of numerous writings and publishing numerous texts and articles very often characterized by profiles instigators and apologetics.
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During a period of detention, expiated in 2019, he maintained a constant production of writings mainly aimed at anti-prison issues, intended for area sites, in particular attributable to the Trentino anarchist group. The various investigative activities have made it possible to ascertain the presence in Trentino of a deep-rooted anarcho-insurrectionist organization and of a network aimed at providing economic and logistical support to the fugitive members. Dolce from Trieste is firmly placed in this context.
The investigations highlighted the thirty-seven-year-old’s role in coordinating anti-prison activities at a national level by promoting initiatives and maintaining strong links with important representatives of the area and the conduct characterized by the use of violence on the occasion of public demonstrations resulting in invasion of land and buildings, littering, resisting a public official, lighting dangerous things, seditious gatherings and carrying objects capable of offending.
For all these crimes he was convicted in various criminal proceedings. Among these was the League demonstration in December 2018 in Rovereto: on that occasion a group of around 70 people from the anarchist movement, with helmets and sticks, clashed with the police forces present. With a sentence of 2023, the man was sentenced to 3 years in prison for crimes relating to public order for the disorders relating to the year 2016 when the Trentino anarchist movement participated in the demonstration against the borders at Brenner.
In prison with Cospito
Luca Dolce had been detained in the Tolmezzo prison, and in 2019 in the Ferrara prison where from May to December he shared a period of detention with Alfredo Cospito. Subsequently he was transferred to Modena prison.
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Furthermore, from the investigations it emerged that Dolce, 37 years old, after a first imprisonment, maintaining relations with the Trentino team, becomes a point of reference for the Triveneto: in this capacity he also takes on the role of liaison figure with the adjacent realities of antagonism and Marxism-Leninism at both local and national levels.
This is a transversality that he had already covered between 2013 and 2018, when he also maintained epistolary contacts with well-known prisoners belonging to the Red Brigades.
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