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on psychoanalysis and the way in which it affects politics inspired<br />

great enthusiasm in Bifo. Bologna is a medium-size city with a<br />

strong student component, and therefore very receptive to the<br />

themes that Radio Alice developed: "Radio Alice homes on the eye<br />

of the cultural storm with a subversion of language, the publication<br />

of a journal called AJTraverso, but it also directly plunges into political<br />

action with the idea of 'transversalizing' it."25 As early as 1976, Bifo<br />

was arrested for "moral instigation to revolt."<br />

On March 13, Bologna was in a state of siege. Three thousand<br />

carabinieri, police officers, and armored tanks occupied the<br />

university zone at the behest of the Christian-Democratic prefect.<br />

Zanghari, the communist mayor of the city, encouraged the<br />

police force to use the most severe repression. Between the 11 th<br />

and the 16th of March, a sort of insurrection occured in Bologna.<br />

Bifo was wanted by the police as the instigator of these insurrectionary<br />

events, and the police roundup led to the arrest of 300<br />

people in Bologna. On May 13, the Minister of the Interior took<br />

antiterrorist measures; from now on violators would be condemned<br />

to life in prison.<br />

A fugitive, Bifo left for Milan, then Turin, and crossed over the<br />

French border. On May 30, he arrived in Paris with the ardent<br />

desire to meet Guattari whose writings he had appreciated so<br />

much. The painter Gianmarco Montesano, a friend of Bifo and<br />

Toni Negri, introduced the two. Bifo met Guattari and instantly<br />

became his friend. On July 7, Bifo was arrested and imprisoned in<br />

La Sante prison, then at Fresnes. Guattari immediately organized<br />

a support network for his release. On this occasion, he and some<br />

of his friends created the CINEL (Collective of Initiatives for<br />

New Spaces of Liberty),26 whose primary goal was to ensure the<br />

defense of militants persecuted by the justice system. The collective<br />

published a journal, established a headquarters on rue de Vaugirard,<br />

and immediately mobilized itself on behalf of Bifo's release.<br />

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