SOCIAL FORUM: PISANU CONCERNED ABOUT FOREIGN PARTICIPANTS

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday November 05, 2002 18:29 by ESFer - Irish to ESF

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(AGI) - Rome, Oct. 29 - "Foreigners are the biggest concern and perhaps the greater risk we will have to face in Florence", according to Home Office Minister Giuseppe Pisanu.

he minister spoke during a parliamentary address with reference to the Social Forum meeting scheduled from November 6th to the 10th, in Florence. According to Home Office sources approximately 1,000 members of the German based Attac, the Federal Co-ordinators of European Marchers and the German Communist Party are expected in Florence. UK participants are likely amount to 1500/2000 from among groups such as Globalise Resistence, Stop the War, Socialist Workers Party and labour unions. French participants are deemed to range between 1000 and 2000 and are mostly members of Attac, left wing parties, the Revolutionary Communist League and dozens of members of Apprentis Agitateurs Pour un Reseau de Resistance Globale. Greece has 1500 participants which are in favour of the creation of a movement containing all other movements. Hungarian citizens are likely to belong to the pacifist organisations that took part in the meeting in Vienna. Slovenians are likely to belong to militant members of the Ac Molotov antagonist formation. Spain, Croatia, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Cyprus, Estonia, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Holland and Portugal will all be represented in one way or another.
"A number of these associations - Pisanu said - are well known and are not the cause of the least concern. Others instead worry us and are being observed carefully: further information seems to indicate that a number of foreigners taking part in the movement are involved with anarchists and radical antagonists, who use violence their prime method of communication". (AGI)