A bar serving workers on the
construction site of the controversial high-speed rail (TAV)
link between Turin and Lyon was vandalised Wednesday night.
"Judas, you're selling the valley for 30 coffees," was
spray-painted across the front of the bar, whose owner Lucrezia
Bono retorted Thursday: "We serve coffee to everyone, this way
all they're doing is damaging a family of the valley".
The incident took place in the town of Chiomonte in the Val
di Susa, a pre-Alpine valley which critics of the new line say
is being spoiled by the project.
Bono, 24, the bar owner, is also a Chiomonte town
councillor.
The TAV project has been plagued with sabotage and violent
protests by so-called No-TAV campaigners.
Writer Erri De Luca on Monday was cleared of instigating
sabotage by saying bolt-cutters should be used against the
project.
Similar slogans were daubed Thursday on the walls of
several homes of TAV workers.
They included "Here live the devastators of the valley" and
"the valley has been sold for 30 pieces of silver".
DIGOS security police are investigating.
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