G8 2001 - Genoa
Bolzaneto: Convictions of abuse during Genoa G8 protests upheld
from email, 9 March 2010: "An Italian court has confirmed the convictions of 15 police officers, prison guards and doctors who were found guilty of the ill-treatment of detainees in the Bolzaneto detention facility in Genoa in 2001 during protests against the G8 summit. The court also overturned the initial acquittals of another 29 people who have now been convicted of ill-treatment..." more
European Court of Human Rights says "Carlo Giuliani was shot in self-defence"
from gipfelsoli, 26 August 2009: "The ECHR condemned Italy on Tuesday (26 August 2009) for failing to carry out a thorough investigation into the death of a protestor who was shot by police at a G8 summit in Genoa in 2001... The court awarded 40,000 euros ($57,160) compensation to the protestor's family. But it decided unanimously that the police officer had not used disproportionate force when he fired during an attack by demonstrators on his vehicle..." more
Eyewitness: Death in Genoa
6 August 2001: A human body but not a human being. my first contact with death. 'After the first death, there is no other..." I forget where i read that, but i hope to hell i never see another like that. Perhaps this is unrealistic, as i believe that neither I nor the rest of the 100,000 people who gathered in Genoa, to fight a myriad-faceted cause (which I saw Carlo Giuliani die for) are dissuaded for a moment. more
Diaz school shocker - no pigs go to jail
from marmalade, 17 November 2008: In town for the verdict of the trial of 29 police and officals invovled in a planning and executing the raid on the Scuola Diaz in Genoa, 2001, probably the biggest human rights abuse in the EU in recent decades. The raid was on the 5 storey school housing the indymedia centre and hundreds of protestors during the 2001 G8 mobilisation. more
Uproar as top police cleared of attack on Genoa G8 protesters
from guardian.co.uk, 14 November 2008: There was uproar in a Genoa court last night after some of Italy's highest-ranking police officers, accused of masterminding a savage attack on peaceful protesters at the G8 meeting in the city seven years ago, were cleared of the charges against them. The area reserved for the public erupted into chants of "shame, shame" as the presiding judge finished reading his verdict. The mother of one of the victims clambered on to a crash barrier and screamed: "We'll have our revenge". more
G8 Genoa: Police receive low sentences
Press release, July 15th 2008: After nine hours the "Bolzaneto trial" against 45 members of police, jail staff and doctors ended yesterday evening in Genoa. The accused persons were under investigation for the misuse of authority, constraint, abuse, intimidation, and falsification of evidence. 300 demonstrators were arrested during the protests against the G8, most of whom were brought to police barracks that were being used as temporary jails. more
G8 Bolzaneto July 2001: Prosecutors call for 76 years in prison for police defendants
from imc-uk, 13 March 2008: In a trial that has seen 209 victims, 392 witnesses and 23 defendants, The Bolzaneto G8 ‘Torture’ trial is finishing in a heated controversial ending. Monday saw prosecutors Patrizia Petruzziello and Vittorio Ranieri rise to their feet again and delivered the final damning indictment against the Italian legal system and the 45 Carabineri, GOM Penitentiary police defendants who have been on trial since late 2005 in a judgment that ran into 1000 pages. more
March 2008: Update on the Genoa court cases
from email, 7 March 2008: Source - SupportoLegale. So we are finally almost there: one of the four court cases around the events of July 2001 in Genoa has seen its first grade sentence, while other three are drawing to a close within the summer. The court case against 25 people has seen people convicted to something like 110 years of jail, ranging from mere 6 months to 11 years per person. more
G8 2001: Bolzaneto, the indictment by Morisani, state prosecutor
from imc-uk, 3 March 2008: The Bolzaneto trial has entered its final phase process for the violence into the infamous G8 Police barracks and detention centre. "At least four of the five interrogation techniques that, according to the European Court on Human Rights called upon to rule on the suppression of the riots in Ireland in the seventies, constitute inhuman and degrading treatment". more
Report from Genoa, six years after
from email, 21 November 2007: "It was a super massive demo (at least 50,000 people) with the genoa generation -- that of tute bianche, indymedia, black and pink blocs -- opening in front and assalti frontali blasting the right kind of politically rhymed speech from the first truck. It was 20,000 youth that spearheaded the demo, almost silent in their boiling anger, with, because of the choice made by supporto legale and global project organizing the demo, no symbols and no flags, save a handful of nodal molin, pirate, anarcho/red, guevarist, zapatista symbols..." more
2001 Genova G8: We are history! - Call to mobilization 17th November 2007
bb | 07.11.2007: "We want to strongly launch the demo for the 17th November in Genoa, and all the other events that aim to the reappropriation of our historical memory and of the meaning of those days in Genoa, six years ago but still alive for what they represented..." more
The Genoa Trials: the anomaly of via Tolemaide. Disobedience and resistance
from email, globalproject.info, 2 November 2007: Genoa , Italy - On October 23rd 2007, after three and a half years, the trial against 25 activists from the anti G8 protests of 2001 in Genoa is approaching the first degree of its final phase... more
Genoa G8: 24 protesters sentenced from 6 months to 11 years
Updated 15 December 2007: Six years after the anti-G8 riots in Genova in July 2001, an Italian court has handed down sentences of between 6 months and 11 years for 24 of the 25 "no globals" accused of "destruction and looting" for the riots. more
Genoa 2001: Italian police chief fired over G8 violence
ROME: Premier Romano Prodi came under widespread criticism Thursday for announcing the departure of Italy's police chief just hours before it emerged he was being investigated in connection with alleged police misconduct during the 2001 G-8 summit. more
Translated newspaper article on suspended Genoa 2001 Diaz case
Translation Massi, edited and posted by Oscar Beard: The translation is a bit rough, due to time constraints. Genoa Diaz trial suspended over one of its most controversial sides. Well-known police officers are on trial for false evidence and slander. more
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from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
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Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more



