Judges opened an investigation on
Friday into allegations of domestic violence and extortion by a
far-left activist youth club that was allegedly charging rent
for squatters to live in an abandoned fire station it illegally
occupied.
An ex-militant and ex-resident of Casa Madiba, the name
given to the abandoned property, filed a formal complaint
alleging that the anticapitalist and anarchist so-called social
center's organizers charged squatters 400 euros a month rent to
live in the building, or required them to work for free for the
group.
The stated mission of the activists was to occupy the
building to house illegal immigrants and the homeless.
The squatters were evacuated by authorities at the end of
May, but went on to occupy an abandoned city government
building, Villa Ricci, for which another investigation has been
opened.
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