Abstract

The paper analyzes from a socio-legal point of view the empirical case of the special surveillance procedure to which five political militants were subjected due to their participation in the Syrian conflict between 2015 and 2018 as internationalist fighters in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The qualitative research lasted one year (2019) and the research techniques used were participant observation, discursive interview and ethnographic diary. The research delivered as results the reconstruction of the legal culture and criminal policy choices of the Turin prosecutor regarding social conflict and the description of the criminalization process to which activists of radical political areas are subjected.