Future Landscapes
Walking beyond the construction site I arrive where the No TAV “summer camp� was situated in summer 2013. On the flor there is a sign saying: Turin-Lyon Useless Devastating Totally at our expenses. The railway has a budgeted cost of 20-25 billions Euro, divided between France, Italy and the European Union. In Italy the final cost of large infrastructures is in average 3 times of the budgeted cost.
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Around the construction site I find many tear gas bullets and this tear gas grenade. The police and the activists clashed many times in this woods, it’s a battlefield. The movement perceives the police as a repressive and anti-democratic presence that militarized their valley. While the No TAV movement is generally peaceful, it justifies the sabotage of machines as a tool of resistance.