The protest of Alberto Trentini’s mother at the Venice Film Festival: “My son abandoned by his country”

The green banner, the words for Alberto against the deafening silence of nine interminable months. The director of the Venice Film Festival Alberto Barbera, the actress Ottavia Piccolo and Armanda Colusso, mother of Alberto Trentini at the initiative wanted by the Association of Article 21 yesterday And by the friends and family of the Venetian cooperant to give public reading of a letter written to inform and push the media to ask for their liberation. The chosen place is symbolic: it is located right under the Trentino house on the Lido.

“I would like to shout my despair and that my cry overcome the ocean to get to Venezuela to those who have been prisoner for nine months “, Armanda Trentini writes, «Nine months are too many. We are experiencing atrocious pain that grows more every day. So I ask you to help us. Alberto has to go home and immediately ».

The meeting was introduced by Beppe Giulietti of the Article 21 Association, who recalled the battles already carried out for the liberation of the journalist Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. But also those of the Association to obtain truth and justice for Italians killed abroad.

The testimony of Armanda Colusso, Mother of Alberto, who thanked the director of the Film Festival Alberto Barbera for the hospitality and support, and once again recalled the story of the son, 46 years old, cooperative in Venezuela, in prison without charges and without being able to receive visits, is of great strength. “We demand that our government concretizes the efforts to take it home, more every day produces an intolerable suffering. I often wonder: what will this boy in his country think, who has abandoned him for months and has not activated enough?».

The story of Alberto Trentini, also for a clear geographical contiguity, is one of the events to which the Festival wants to give more voice. “I am available, the exhibition is “, reiterated Alberto Barbera,” what you are experiencing is unjust and unsustainable, especially in the absence of a charge». The letter will be published on Article 21 channels.

Alberto Trentini was stopped and imprisoned on November 15, 2024 while going on a mission to the Game for an NGO that deals with disabled people. He had been in Venezuela for a few days. In over nine months he has been entitled to two phone calls with his family, but nobody was allowed to meet him. Family, friends, activists and the management of the 82nd Film Festival have said they were determined to make this festival an international resonance case to try to raise awareness of the institutions on the stall in which its situation is located.