Bar vandalised in 'No-TAV' attack

(ANSA) - Turin, October 22 - 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.