The G8 summit in Japan
Originally published in May 2008.
This year’s G8 Summit will be held between July 7th and 9th by Lake Toya in Hokkaido, Northern Japan.
Genoa 2001: two of the activists sentenced last week are untraceable
Submitted by Italy Calling on Jul 17 2012 20:20
Francesco Puglisi and Vincenzo Vecchi, the two of the’Genoa 10′ to receive the most severe sentences for crimes of “devastation and looting” – 15 and 13 years – are untraceable since Sunday, the same day Genoa’s Supreme Tribunal ordered them to be incarcerated.
[b]Another two, Alberto Funaro and Marina Cugnaschi, were immediately imprisoned. Ines Morasca, sentenced to 6 years and 6 months, had her prison sentence suspended due to parental duties (she has a very young child).
Genova, 2001: 11 years later, a bitter sentence
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jul 17 2012 14:52
On the 5th of July the Italian Supreme Court convicted thirteen police heads involved in the brutal raid at the Diaz-Pertini and Diaz-Pascoli schools of the 21st of July 2001. Most of them, who were previously cleared, received convictions of up to five years, even though others have been now cleared because of the 10-years-time limit that Italian law sets on trials. After eleven years, this is the very first time in which high ranking policemen have been convicted for their brutality during the anti-G8 protests in Genova. However, none of them will ever go to jail; instead, they will only be suspended from duty (Italy’s Statute of limitations) for the next five years.
The Diaz schools were used by protesters in order to do their own counter-information and, eventually, to accommodate people at night.
Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty
Submitted by Italy Calling on Jul 15 2012 18:32
The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. While some of the sentences have been slightly reduced, all 10 activists have been declared guilty of devastation and looting crimes against private property (for a little historical insight on this charge have a look at my previous article).
[b]Five of the defendants have been granted right to appeal against other related charges, and their cases will be re-examined by the judges.
Final sentences for police forces involved in Diaz school butchery at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa
Submitted by Italy Calling on Jul 8 2012 21:03
Impunity for police and security forces involved in the raid at the Diaz school during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa
After a 9-hour debate, the Italian Supreme Court has issued its final sentence against the 25 defendants – policemen and heads of security forces – responsible for the violence against the activists sleeping in the Diaz school during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. Result: most of the charges have been declared time-barred, leading to impunity for all the people involved.
Genoa 2001: 11 years minus a month
Translation of a painfully beautiful article written by fellow blogger psikosomatica. The original in Italian can be found on her blog. Thanks psikosomatica for writing this. Memory must be saved…
11 years minus a month
10×100: sign the call
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jun 24 2012 19:33
A call to sign a petition against the potential jailing for 100 years of demonstrators against the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
The way public order was managed during the G8 days of July 2001 in Genoa remains an open wound in the latest history of the Italian Republic.
Genoa isn’t over…new support campaign for activists risking 100 years of jail
Submitted by Italy Calling on Jun 24 2012 11:45
I’m not usually one for signing petitions, but a recent initiative has started up which I feel very strongly about. While the top table directly involved in organising and carrying out the butchery of the G8 in Genoa 11 years ago have happily got away with it, 10 activists are risking a total of about 100 years in jail for crimes of “devastation and looting”.
As the official site of the campaign “10 x 100″ likes to point out, the crime of “devastation and looting” was first introduced in 1930, that is, while Italy was still under a Fascist regime. Funny how it’s still there.
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Under a president deemed worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, the will of the authoritarian tyrant caste is being written permanently into American law.
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Murder attempt inquiry to be dismissed over G8 facts in Genova
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 10 2012 12:26
British journalist, Mark Cowell, was subjected to a "brutal" and "potentially lethal" aggression during the demo against G8 in Genova (2001). Now, the inquiry is coming to an end. Italian newspapers and nationwide media are not reporting this story.
Mark Cowell is a British journalist who went into coma after being beaten by the police in Diaz school in Genova, during the 2001 G8 meeting. The public prosecutors declared the aggression to which Cowell was subjected as “brutal” and “potentially lethal”, so much that the accuse definition is “murder attempt”.
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