«The collective practices of occupying vacant houses, blocking evictions, resisting evictions» are «a real and immediate alternative to social isolation and war among the poor».

Ilaria Salis, recently elected in Europe with Avs, in a long post on Facebook claims to have been «a militant of the housing movement who over the years has fought on the issue of the right to live, in Milan and throughout Italy", "with great pride in having been part of this movement and in continuing to support it".

On Facebook, the teacher from Monza detained for 500 days in Hungary on charges of attacking far-right militants addresses the issue of the right to live from different points of view. Housing movements? «Giving a concrete response to the need for housing means not only finding a solution here and now, albeit precarious and provisional, to a question left unresolved by institutional politics, but also indicating a political perspective of transformation of the material conditions of life in the name of social justice".

Salis then addresses the issue of a credit claimed by Aler, the Lombardy residential construction company, against him. «As has been widely publicized in the right-wing media, Aler is claiming a credit of 90,000 euros from me as 'compensation' for the alleged occupation of a house in via Giosuè Borsi in Milan, based exclusively on the fact that in 2008 I was found at its interior. Although - he continues - in the following sixteen years no further checks were ever carried out to verify my permanence, nor was any civil or criminal proceeding ever initiated against me".

Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni defended her: the first stigmatizing the pre-election "mud machine" timing of the accusations made; the second also supporting her in her motivations: «I'm with Ilaria. Occupying houses should not be considered a crime," he says.

Controversy rains down from the centre-right: «The new colleague Salis begins by justifying those who occupy other people's homes», and in fact «incites illegal occupations. It doesn't seem like a debut with a great legalistic spirit to me", attacks the FdI MEP, Nicola Procaccini. "We ask ourselves how a certain left can put arrogance before legality", echoes Raffaella Paita, senator from IV. «After the failure of Soumahoro - the Forzista Maurizio Gasparri stings -, the left continues to pursue a disastrous policy with more than questionable characters». The president of Confconstruction, Giorgio Spaziani Testa, also joins the chorus of criticism: «Ilaria Salis's first statement as an 'honourable' is dedicated to proudly claiming a series of crimes concerning the home. Congratulations to the voters."

(Unioneonline/D)

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