Ancona, 5 October (LaPresse) – Silvia Severini, Fliotilla employee, activist Severini: ‘two very difficult days in prison’

Ancona, 5 October (LaPresse) – Silvia Severini, a municipal employee in Ancona and activist, returned to Italy, first to Rome during the night and then to her hometown of Ancona, after participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla mission. At the “House of Culture” in Ancona, she also spoke about her two “very difficult” days in prison in Israel. ‘You realise that even for us, who are privileged, humanitarian rights do not exist, they are not respected,’ she added. One of the most difficult moments was the lack of water. ‘When we left the cell (in the Israeli Ketziot prison where she was detained, ed.) to talk to the consul, he brought us water.’ So ‘we drank a lot, it was the only time,’ she said, ‘that I drank in two days.’ ‘And then we girls decided that we didn’t want to go back in unless they gave us one bottle per person for each cell,’ she continued. “We staged a rebellion. There were about ten of us girls in pyjama-like clothes and slippers, and at least 15-20 armed men arrived to take us back to our cells by force. One girl was handcuffed while the rest of us were made to sit on the ground in the sun.‘ Greta Thunberg ’was in another cell. We were the only ones who had the chance to see the consul.‘ Severini, who left on board the Flotilla on 7 September from Catania, also said she was ’in a cell with 15 people, designed for 5.”