Di fronte alla III sezione del Tribunale di Genova si è tenuta stamattina
la prima udienza pubblica del processo di Bolzaneto. Quarantacinque
imputati tra poliziotti, carabinieri, poliziotti penitenziari e personale
sanitario, accusati
di violenze e abusi sui manifestanti portati alla caserma di Bolzaneto nei
giorni del G8 di Genova.
Nonostante fossero pochi gli imputati e le parti offese presenti, l'aula
risulta
comunque assolutamente insufficiente per un processo che vede oltre 150
parti offese.
"Un'immagine desolante" secondo il procuratore Morisani che ha addirittura
proposto di chiedere al Comune di Genova di mettere a disposizione un
teatro per
tenere le udienze di questo processo.
Così come è avvenuto fino ad ora con il processo Diaz, la maggior parte
del tempo se ne va nel lungo appello, quindi vengono presentate nuove
costituzioni
di parte civile, tra cui quella del Genoa social forum, richiesta
dall'avvocato
Dario Rossi. Un'altra questione preliminare è stata la richiesta di
estensione
della chiamata del responsabile civile (per il Ministero dell'Interno,
della Difesa e della Giustizia) per le nuove parti costituite. L'avvocato
difensore degli imputati Cimino e Pelliccia ha chiesto la nullità delle
notifiche ai suoi
assistiti chiedendo il rinvio degli atti al pubblico ministero, che ha
chiesto
tempo per esaminare le notifiche.
Da segnalare l'accorato discorso del procuratore aggiunto Morisani,
sull'importanza di fissare un calendario che permetta di arrivare almeno
alla sentenza di primo grado. Le previsioni della Procura sono di circa
200-250 udienze e la maggior parte dei reati contestati andrà in
prescrizione nel 2009.
Nel 2007, se dovesse essere approvata la legge Cirielli ("salva-Previti").
Il tribunale ha poi rinviato l'udienza al 3 novembre per decidere sulle
nuove costituzioni e sulle eccezioni preliminari sollevate.
Prima udienza pubblica anche per Di Bernardini, (imputato al processo
Diaz, ma
stralciato in fase di udienza preliminare, perché era in coma in seguito a
un incidente stradale). Il tribunale ha deciso la riunificazione del
processo al troncone principale Diaz, la cui prossima udienza è fissata
per dopodomani, venerdì 14 ottobre.
in allegato rassegna stampa estera
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pubblici ufficiali accusati di violenza, torture, abuso di potere.
Supporto Legale trascrive le udienze, le trasforma in sintesi
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Supporto Legale, nato per iniziativa di alcuni mediattivisti che
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campagne di raccolta fondi, versando integralmente il ricavato per il
lavoro delle segreterie e per le spese processuali.
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Cosenza: quelli a persone che cerano andate per manifestare, quelli a
pubblici ufficiali accusati di violenza, torture, abuso di potere.
Supporto Legale trascrive le udienze, le trasforma in sintesi
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iniziative di informazione e raccolta fondi.
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Perchè la memoria è un ingranaggio collettivo.The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1589996,00.html
Brutality trials start for top Italian police
G8 protesters claim they were gassed and beaten
New laws could render convictions meaningless
John Hooper in Rome
Wednesday October 12, 2005
The Guardian
Seventy-five people, including some of Italy's most senior police officers, go
on trial in the next two days, accused of taking part in an orgy of brutality
against protesters during and after the demonstrations at the 2001 G8 summit in
Genoa.
Court papers seen by the Guardian show that one police witness gave a written
statement describing his colleagues "beating young people like wild beasts".
Several of the victims were British.
The defendants all deny the charges. Even if found guilty, it looks
increasingly unlikely that any will go to prison, or even pay a fine, because
of a bill currently making its way through the Italian parliament. The proposed
legislation, which critics of Silvio Berlusconi's government say was devised to
keep the prime minister's former lawyer out of jail, would render any sentences
null and void.
Twenty-five protesters are on trial accused of looting and damage to property.
The first of the two new trials begins today with 47 police and medical staff
accused of mistreating arrested demonstrators at a camp at Bolzaneto, near
Genoa. Prosecutors allege detainees were beaten and sprayed with asphyxiating
gas. They say some were forced to shout out chants in praise of Italy's late
fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, and that at least one of the songs was
anti-semitic. Charges brought against the defendants range from actual bodily
harm to failure to respect international human rights conventions.
Among those indicted is the commander of Italy's penitentiary guards, who was
promoted to his position despite being placed under investigation for failing
to prevent abuses. The head of the camp's medical staff, Giacomo Toccafondi, is
charged with, among other things, failing to report the gassing of detainees.
The second trial, which starts on Friday, concerns the night of July 22 2001,
when police in riot gear burst into a school being used as a dormitory by
demonstrators. They thought the school was a headquarters for the so-called
"black block" protesters who were responsible for much of the violence and
vandalism during the anti-G8 demonstrations. Almost a hundred people were
injured in the operation which was overseen by some of Italy's most senior
police officers. Three of the victims were left in a coma. No one arrested in
the raid was later charged.
After breaking down the door, officers belonging to the 7th anti-riot squad,
based in Rome, began kicking and beating those inside with such ferocity that
"in the space of a few minutes, all the occupants of the ground floor had been
reduced to complete helplessness", the prosecutors said. On the top floor, some
demonstrators were hiding in cupboards. "They were discovered, viciously beaten
and dragged to lower floors," they allege.
After the raid, police claimed they had found Molotov cocktails on the
premises. The prosecutors allege, however, that the homemade bombs were
confiscated by police during the demonstrations and planted at the school as
part of a "clear manipulation constructed to deceive". None of the officers on
trial has been suspended from duty. In June, the officer commanding the 7th
Rome anti-riot squad was promoted.
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The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article318852.ece
Trial forces Italy to relive shocking police brutality
By Peter Popham in Rome
Published: 12 October 2005
Italy is about relive two of its most shocking episodes of alleged police
brutality as the trial of officers accused of illegal behaviour over attacks on
anti- globalisation protesters proceed in Genoa.
The attacks occurred as the G8 summit of July 2001 in the port city was winding
down after days of peaceful mass demonstrations by 200,000 people from all over
the world, and violently anarchic protests by a small group known as the Black
Block.
Today the trial begins of 45 police, carabinieri, prison officers and medical
staff allegedly involved in the attacks at a transit holding camp. They include
some of the most senior officers in the camp, and in the city. The charges
against them include abuse of authority and unlawful violence.
On Friday, the case against 28 officers involved in the Diaz school raid
resumes after a six-month break. Those on trial include some of the most senior
police officers in the land. They are charged with trespass, false arrest,
inflicting or authorising grievous bodily harm, and with inventing the story
intended to justify the raid.
Many of the victims of the attacks will be in court to confront the men who
attacked them, including the British freelance journalist Mark Covell, who was
the first and one of the most badly injured in the school.
This week Mr Covell, who was working for IndyMedia during the summit, said: "I
was in a coma for four days after the raid; my head was split from the front to
the back. I had eight broken ribs, shredded lungs, 10 broken teeth. The
treatment has not finished yet. I need another operation on my spine and my
left hand will have to be broken and re-set. Most of the Diaz victims are in a
similar state."
Genoa was the first big international event hosted by Silvio Berlusconi's then
new centre-right government and although all went smoothly for the world
leaders closeted in the city centre behind high wire fences, outside it was
mayhem.
It was on Saturday night, as the protesters were bedding down, planning to
leave the next morning, that the police decided to seize the initiative. About
150 special police led by a crack "experimental" Flying Squad unit from Rome
equipped with side-handled "tonfa" batons, smashed their way into the city
school, which had been loaned to the Genoa Social Forum, organisers of the
protests.
The police fanned out through the three floors, beating their victims until
many were unconscious on a floor splattered with blood. Sixty-two of the 93
people in the school required medical treatment; 25 had to stay in hospital for
further treatment, including three who were comatose.
All were arrested, whatever their condition, and many, including some who were
badly injured, were taken to a temporary detention centre called Bolzaneto, six
kilometres outside the city.
More beatings and humiliations followed. Female prisoners were made to
spreadeagle themselves against walls for hours in the middle of the night while
police threatened to rape them with their truncheons. They were forced to sing
pro-Fascist songs.
Within a day or so the foreigners among them were taken to the Italian border
and told they had to leave immediately - many without money, belongings, even
passports.
Paul Ginsborg, a historian of contemporary Italy, said: "Really disgusting
things happened in Bolzaneto, pure Fascist stuff. With the election of the
centre-right government, and with the post-Fascist leader Gianfranco Fini as
Deputy Prime Minister, certain elements thought they could get away with
anything."
But the victory of the police was short-lived. All the charges against those
arrested were dismissed for lack of evidence. Months later it emerged that the
police's prize discovery at the school, two Molotov cocktails, had been
confiscated that afternoon from an unrelated locality, and planted by officers .
The prosecutor of the case, Enrico Zucca, has overcome many obstacles to bring
the case this far. But now Dr Zucca fears that both may fail to come to
judgement thanks to a new law now passing through parliament.
Nicknamed the "Save-Previti" law, it is purpose-made, opposition MPs claim, to
enable one of Mr Berlusconi's closest colleagues, Cesare Previti, to escape
prison on a judge-bribing charge by cutting in half the statute of limitations
as it applies to a whole raft of criminal offences.
If the bill becomes law, the two trials will wind slowly onwards, but will
finally be killed off before anyone can be punished.
Richard Parry, the British lawyer for the four British victims of the Diaz
raid, said said: "It will be a funda- mental breach of their human rights if my
clients can't get compensation. That would be wrong."
The protests and their aftermath
* MAY 2001: Silvio Berlusconi wins election
* 18 JULY 2001: Some 200,000 anti-globalisation protesters pour into Genoa for
G8 Summit
* 20 JULY: Carlo Giuliani shot dead as he hurls fire extinguisher at police
* 21 JULY: Police raid Diaz school, many unarmed members of independent media
attacked
* 22 JULY: Victims of raid sent to Bolzaneto camp and face more abuse and
attacks. Charges against them later dropped
* May 2003: Genoa judge rules that none of the 93 arrested at Diaz was involved
in violence
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bbc news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4332954.stm
Genoa police on 'brutality' trial
The first of two trials of dozens of Italian police officers accused of
attacking protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to open.
Some 45 police and medical staff are going on trial on Wednesday accused of
mistreating protesters that had been arrested and held at a camp near Genoa.
On Friday, 28 officers will appear in court over a raid at a school which
protesters were using as a dormitory.
The defendants - which include senior city officers - deny the charges.
More than 600 witnesses are due to be called altogether, including the former
Italian interior minister, Gianfranco Fini, who is now the foreign minister.
Dozens of people from the UK, Germany, France and the US who claim they
suffered injuries, some life threatening, are expected to be among those giving
evidence.
The alleged brutality took place as the G8 summit in the Italian port city came
to a close after days of mainly peaceful, mass demonstrations.
A small minority, mainly anarchist groups such as Black Bloc, were blamed for
the violence and vandalism that broke out.
'Almost killed'
On the night the protests ended, riot police smashed their way into Diaz
school, where many of the demonstrators had been staying.
They reportedly kicked and beat those they found inside. More than 1,000 people
were injured; three were left in a coma.
Mark Covell, from London, was one of those who found himself in the front line.
"Three hundred police raided two buildings," he said.
"Within the space of about 15 minutes I was almost killed and there were 92
other protesters, most of which were injured quite badly."
Many of those arrested were taken to a detention camp at Bolzaneto, 6kms
outside Genoa.
Here they were allegedly beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas and forced
to sing pro-Fascist songs.
Some of the most senior officers in the camp, and in the city, are facing trial
on charges including abuse of authority and unlawful violence.
But even if the defendants are found guilty, they may escape punishment because
of a new law passing through parliament.
Critics say the law has been devised to enable Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi's former lawyer to escape a jail term on bribery charges, but will
also apply to a whole range of criminal offences.
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