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Genoa G8 2001 Diaz Raid - Cassazione verdict in 24 hours....

nessuno 영국 인디미디아 명사 평론가, Jul 4, 2012.

Currently, i am in London and i will not attend the Cassazione verdict on July 5th. I am currently quite ill and about to be made homeless by Westminster City Council. I have lost the final and ultimate battle to keep the Diaz trial alive.

Every once in a while a legal case comes along in Italy which will shape the future path of a country concerning the standard of its human rights and its legal system. The raid on the Diaz school during the violent Genoa G8 in 2001 is such a case.

Almost eleven years have passed as the Diaz case has travelled and navigated a legal system challenged and pulled apart by Berlusconi until it has finally arrived at the highest court of the land. This court is the Corti of Cassazione in Piazza Cavour. It is a very imposing building in Central Rome and is situated on the west side of the Tigris river. Cassazione does not use juries but has five Supreme court judges considering the case before it.

What they are considering is a high controversial police brutality case that has multiple victims and many police on trial for multiple serious charges. These are not rank and file policemen but commanders who now represent the top tier of power in the Italian police force. The very people, if acquitted, who will steer Italy through an economic and public order crisis of enormous size.

There are 26 anti-terrorist, DIGOS, flying Squad and state police commanders who are accused of masterminding and planning the bloody 'Mexican butchers shop' massacre at Diaz during the Genoa G8. A raid of such brutality, Amnesty called it the biggest suspension of democratic rights in a western country since World War II. A raid that was described by Genoa judges as the darkest page of history of the Italian police force. Even a movie has been made Domenico Procacci has been made called Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood. It was released at the Berlin Film festival to critical fame and many Italian youth have seen it in cinemas last month. The movie script is based upon the basic facts of what happened. Fandango, the production company researched and read over 10,000 court documents.

As an English Indymedia journalist who was covering the summit, I was attacked and almost killed at Diaz (it is estimated) by up to 14 Italian policemen. So were another four British victims to a lesser degree of injuries. They are Dan Macquillan, Norman Blair, Richard Moth and Nicola Doherty. They were very peaceful non-violent protesters who were genuinely concerned about the state of the planet before 9-11 changed the world. What hasn't changed since 9-11 is the rise of powerful fascist politics that now threaten the stability of Italy and Europe in this current economic crisis. Whilst politicians and journalist analysis the rise of fascist politics in Greece, the Diaz case is the frontline of the struggle against fascism in Italy.

Gianfranco Fini, currently speaker of Rome Parliament, is still the most powerful fascist politician in Europe but since his breakup with Berlusconi, he is biding his time and staying below the radar. When Fini is quiet, he is planning his path to become prime minister. The fascists are allowing the Monti Government to be seen to fail before they offer their extreme right wing policies on law, Public Order and Immigration. Fini's view of Europe and the EU is that Italy should leave union of states. This is where he finds common ground with Cameroon who also wants to leave but for the different reasons of protecting the bankers in the city of London.

Fin grew powerful under Berlusconi. At the Genoa G8 summit, he had the special job of being G8 security minister and he was supposed to handle the Bin Laden threat to fly a wooden plane into the G8 but he was more interested in having his private fascist war with the anti-globalisation movement. Instead of protecting the G8, he took a personal interest in making sure the Diaz raid was carried out and that many people were tortured for fun.

Of the G8 itself, it was expedient to allow a man like Gianfranco Fini and his fascists to do the dirty job of smashing any democratic and popular protest that was being mounted against them as they carried out plans to exploit the planet for even more resources and profit and to maintain their powerful grip over the world.

For the human rights abuse at Diaz and Bolzaneto, Berlusconi and Fini handed out promotions whilst offering money and very expensive lawyers to get them off the serious charges being presented by Dr Zucca and the Genova prosecutors. It is rumoured but not proved yet that Gianfranco told the convicted Diaz police that they were 'Covered to do anything they liked at Diaz'.

Francesco Gratteri, second in command of the anti-terrorist squad at Diaz, has recently been promoted to Deputy chief of police of Italy.

Gilberto Caldarozzi, Gratteri's deputy, has been promoted into the Justice ministry and Spartico Mortola, Commander of the DIGOS in Genoa at the time of G8, has been promoted to be chief of police in Turin. The only commander (7th mobile heavy riot unit) not to of been promoted was Vincenzo Canterini, the 'Butcher of Diaz'.

And they did do anything and everything to the victims of Diaz and Bolzaneto. Like planting Molotov cocktails at Diaz whilst knowing everyone there was innocent and with the firm intention of sending the victims to jail as a grand conspiracy of criminality for the next 15 years on trumped up false charges . It should be remembered that the Italians were using emergency G8 military powers which double the sentence of most crimes in normal times.

What happened to me is an illustration of how far the Diaz police were prepared to go to dispense their kind of idealogy. In three attacks over the space of 15 minutes, my left hand was broken, eight ribs on my left side, my left lung was shredded, I suffered massive internal bleeding, a damaged spine, 16 broken teeth and was put into a coma. I was then left to die outside the main gate of Diaz Pertini despite the fact that Carabineri medical teams were present.

I actually count myself lucky that the police never succeeded kidnapping me out of hospital and sending me to Bolzaneto where I would of certainly died at the hands of a prison doctor (Toccafondi who was convicted during the Bolzaneto trial) who joined in the torture with the police. Others were not so lucky and endured four of the five basic torture techniques as invented by the parachute regiment in 1972 Northern Ireland conflict (yes... Bolzaneto is compared to that conflict. It was not just a few hippies being slapped about. It was systematic torture).

In the hours and days after the Diaz raid, a cover-up went into place by the Diaz police whilst they gave press conferences telling the international press that all the victims were dangerous terrorists. Dr Zucca calls it a 'Code Blue' wall of silence. The commanders at Diaz ordered civil servant police who attended Diaz later to write false reports and statements (which they later signed). My attempted murder was written out of the statements and to this day, only two policemen out of 340 who had to pass me to get into Diaz, ever said they saw me. No honest policeman had the courage to face up to the power of these commanders and attempt to tell the truth for fear of being threatened and killed by their superiors. A few did attempt to tell some truth about the basic facts. Fournier was one such policeman. He testified that Diaz was a 'Mexican Butchers Shop'. However, on the whole, very few spoke out about what they had seen.

In the years after the Diaz raid, I attempted and succeeded in rebuilding and synchronising the video evidence. 'Supervideo Diaz', as it was nicknamed, was finished and presented by the italian legal human rights team in the actual Diaz trial. This reconstruction is an irrefutable major piece of evidence in front of the Cassazione judges.

nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #1 .nessuno

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Diaz is a special trial in the sense that so many police are on trial and they are not just the rank and file. Most of them are commanders. Police trials like Diaz have to have a much higher level of evidence involved even if you are to be in the situation of bringing a case, let alone winning it. We called it the 500% rule. The police had to be caught absolutely red handed in performing a crime before we presented a legal argument. At Diaz much went wrong for them and yes they were all caught red-handed beating innocent protesters and journalists, planting false evidence - namely two Molotov's, falsely accusing and arresting the victims and caught sending victims off for torture at Bolzaneto by another set of police.

This is why Diaz breaks all known records in the legal sense. I have not found another case yet where more police have been put on trial as in the Diaz trial.

However, through the last eleven years, Berlusconi sought to move the legal goalposts of the Diaz case. First, he shortened the statute of limitations. This was primarily to get himself off charges related to the John Mills affair. However, this law also caused many of the Diaz charges to go beyond the statute of limitations despite being found guilty of all of them.

The three charges still on the statute book are false arrest, false statement and forgery. If found guilty of these three charges, the may 2010 verdict will stand and 15 of the Diaz police are jailed and a further eleven will be thrown out.

However, many italian commentators say that Cassazione will use a law passed in 2005 that suspends the first three years of a sentence. Its known as Berlusconi's 'Pardon' law. This will mean that all Diaz police walk and most will keep their jobs.

If Cassazione exists for justice for the victim, where is the justice? Why does the court have to protect and let go the butchers of Diaz? Why does the court have to use laws from a criminal like Berlusconi? Is the court going to do anything about what Amnesty International said? Will yet another serious injustice persist into italian history?

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I will endevour to post all news as it happens tomorrow. nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #3 .revol68

what, fucking what?

anyone know when the Diaz movie is out in the UK? Is it up on any torrent sites? butchers? revol68, Jul 4, 2012 #4 .nessuno

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I was told that the DVD will come out in august. I am endevouring to sort out a date when the film can be premiered at the Ritz in brixton. nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #5 .Fedayn

Ooooh nifty mifty...

revol68 said: ↑

anyone know when the Diaz movie is out in the UK? Is it up on any torrent sites? butchers?

Every Italian I know who's seen the film-all anarchos/leftists/communists-whilst glad it's starting to be really seen are none too impressed with it at all.

It's on some torrents. Fedayn, Jul 4, 2012 #6 .DaveCinzano

Off the meat rack

Powerful posts, nessuno. DaveCinzano, Jul 4, 2012 #7 .revol68

what, fucking what?

Fedayn said: ↑

Every Italian I know who's seen the film-all anarchos/leftists/communists-whilst glad it's starting to be really seen are none too impressed with it at all.

It's on some torrents.

I could imagine, but I learned long ago to just really lower my expectations with these kind of films, so I'm assuming your standard liberal/amnesty international moral outrage about the suspension of rights wah wah

anyway it's more for my ma. revol68, Jul 4, 2012 #8 .Fedayn

Ooooh nifty mifty...

revol68 said: ↑

I could imagine, but I learned long ago to just really lower my expectations with these kind of films, so I'm assuming your standard liberal/amnesty international moral outrage about the suspension of rights wah wah

Roughly translated yeah, not hard enough. Fedayn, Jul 4, 2012 #9 .revol68

what, fucking what?

Fedayn said: ↑

Roughly translated yeah, not hard enough.

any links for the torrent? revol68, Jul 4, 2012 #10 .Pickman's model

Your dirty little secret

nessuno said: ↑

I actually count myself lucky that the police never succeeded kidnapping me out of hospital and sending me to Bolzaneto where I would of certainly died at the hands of a prison doctor (Toccafondi who was convicted during the Bolzaneto trial) who joined in the torture with the police. Others were not so lucky and endured four of the five basic torture techniques as invented by the parachute regiment in 1972 Northern Ireland conflict (yes... Bolzaneto is compared to that conflict. It was not just a few hippies being slapped about. It was systematic torture).

load of bollocks: you know a lot about the diaz raid but not so much about the british army in the six counties.

i assume you're referring to the guineapigs among the internees. internment was introduced in 1971. Pickman's model, Jul 4, 2012 #11 .nessuno

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Pickman's model....I am only quoting from the Bolzaneto prosecutors report who did use a 1972 northern ireland case as comparison to what happened during the Genoa G8. nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #12 .Bahnhof Strasse

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Bahnhof Strasse, Jul 4, 2012 #13 .nessuno

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about Bolzaneto....

On the 11th of May 2004, 47 GOM Penitentiary police and Carabinieri were indicted (charged) and sent for trial. As for the confession of the two prison police, their statements led to General Oronzo D’Oria also being put on trial. D’Oria was in charge of the shift units on duty during the five day period where 209 arrested people passed through. None were ever charged and were released in the days and weeks after the G8.

The charges were:

Abuse of authority

Abuse of office and false ideology

Forgery,

Breach of the penitentiary regulations

Since May 2004 the accusations became heavier with the addition of:

Private violence (common assault)

Personal injury and beatings

Failure to inform authorities, relatives and foreign embassies.

Denial of basic legal rights

EU Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

According to the memorandum filed in March 2005 by the Genova Prosecutors office, Bolzaneto violated Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman and degrading treatment.

On 12 October 2005, the Bolzaneto trial officially got underway. Of the defendants, fourteen are belonging to Police Penitentiary, twelve are Carabinieri, including commanders Giammarco Braini and Barucco Piermatteo; fourteen are agents and officials of the State Police, beginning with Deputy police chief Alessandro Perugini, deputy head of the Digos at Genoa (now on trial for the assault of a child demonstrator) and the inspector Anna Poggi, deputy police chief of Turin.

Five doctors and paramedics of the Bolzaneto penitentiary administration, including the head Provisional prison health of the G8, James Toccafondi were also indicted.

A "Welcome" sign greeted prisoners on arrival. They were then taken to the two wings of Bolzaneto which was reserved for prisoners. As they entered each wing, two lines of police would deploy and the prisoners were forced to walk the kickline taking kicks, punches and batons. Injuries were left untreated.

Prosecutors were shocked to discover that a dazed polish protester with an undiagnosed skull fracture was also beaten in Bolzaneto. He had come from the notorious Diaz raid that had occurred overnight Saturday-Sunday morning, July 21/22nd 2001. Of the 209 prisoners, 81 were from Diaz. Already in poor shape, many were singled out.

According to Sara Bartesaghie, a 21 year old protester and other prisoners, teargas sprays was repeatedly used against prisoners inside the cells to immobilize and to suffocate prisoners. The Bolzaneto directors Enrico Ragosa, and Gen. Nicola Agnano confirmed that teargas sprays was neither authorized or supplied to GOM penitentiary police. On 9 January 2007, General Ricci Mattiello, head of the translation service and the departments of GOM Penitentiary at G8 said he did not exclude that agents - probably younger – did use personal teargas sprays.

On Thursday 28th of Feb 2008, Genova Prosecutor Mario Morisani stood to begin his final arguments in the Bolzaneto G8 torture case, the sister case to Diaz. He spoke of the G8 in Genoa which "had been a wave of insanity. Everyone lost control on one side and the other".

"at least four of the five interrogation techniques used at Bolzaneto that, according to the European Court on Human Rights called upon to rule on the suppression of the riots in Ireland in the seventies, constituted" inhuman and degrading treatment".

“Victims arrested were forced to stand for hours, in inconvenient locations, beaten, taken around, deprived of food and water. The Prosecutor cited the UN convention banning torture and the inhumane, cruel or degrading treatment. The provision against torture, said the magistrate, Italy ratified had in 1989 but has not yet translated into a criminal law.” According to the Genova’s prosecutor’s office, what happened at Bolzaneto was an inhuman and degrading torture but there is no law in Italy that covers the description of the evidence at Bolzaneto. The prosecutors could only apply article 323- abuse of office and breach of the EU Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedom from 'fundamental abuse of authority' against persons arrested or detained, threatened, insulted or injured. Prosecutor Petruzziello said that for the offence of torture and the inhumane and degrading treatment he would be expecting sentences from 4 to 10 years. Sentences being handed down in 2009. The prosecutor cited several judgments of the European Court on Human Rights.

One of them 'the judgement of January 18, 1978, known to have touched on the so-called five technical harassment in the method of interrogation, described following the appeal presented by the Government of the Republic of Ireland against the Government of the United Kingdom. The case concerned ill-treatment had been the subject of people arrested during riots occurred between'71 and'72. "It emerged - explained the prosecutor - that those arrested were forced to stand against a wall in a 'position of power';were hooded, subjected to continuous noise while being interrogated, deprived of sleep, food and beverages. "Of the five treatments examined by the Court and considered inhuman - says the prosecutor - four were certainly inflicted on Bolzaneto.” nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #14 .nessuno

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On the 5th of March 2010, 44 GOM Mobile, Carabineri, DIGOS and prison police were convicted on appeal. Amnesty International has launched a campaign to pass a new torture law through the Rome parliament in light of what happened at Bolzaneto and the testimony given in the trial. nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #15 .nessuno

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http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/398501573/?tab=summary nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #16 .nessuno

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I don't know the quality of it yet because i have not downloaded. people are welcome to try though. nessuno, Jul 4, 2012 #17 .Pickman's model

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nessuno said: ↑

One of them 'the judgement of January 18, 1978, known to have touched on the so-called five technical harassment in the method of interrogation, described following the appeal presented by the Government of the Republic of Ireland against the Government of the United Kingdom. The case concerned ill-treatment had been the subject of people arrested during riots occurred between'71 and'72. "It emerged - explained the prosecutor - that those arrested were forced to stand against a wall in a 'position of power';were hooded, subjected to continuous noise while being interrogated, deprived of sleep, food and beverages. "Of the five treatments examined by the Court and considered inhuman - says the prosecutor - four were certainly inflicted on Bolzaneto.”

the guineapigs on whom these techniques were tried WERE NOT arrested 'during riots', they were arrested AT HOME. i realise you're quoting from italian documents as you've said before, but could you please omit any comparisons to the six counties from them, as so far they've been in many respects wrong. Pickman's model, Jul 4, 2012 #18 .free spirit

more tea vicar?

Pickman's model said: ↑

the guineapigs on whom these techniques were tried WERE NOT arrested 'during riots', they were arrested AT HOME. i realise you're quoting from italian documents as you've said before, but could you please omit any comparisons to the six counties from them, as so far they've been in many respects wrong.

It's probably just lost in translation tbf, as the judgement will have been in Italian, and is quoting from a ECHR judgement which had probably been translated from English into Italian in the first place.

The comparison with the ECHR judgements on those cases seems valid to be reporting though.

Anyway, it'd be good to keep the thread on topic now your point's been made. free spirit, Thursday at 12:09 AM #19 .free spirit

more tea vicar?

nessuno

Sorry you seem to be having a shitty time, and can't make it to hopefully the final part of this nightmare marathon you've been engaged in for the last 11 years. I'll PM you, but if there's anything I can do to help out a bit let me know and I'll be glad to assist if I can.

I have lost the final and ultimate battle to keep the Diaz trial alive.

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning by this, but without your updates here I doubt any of us would have managed to keep up to date with this trial at all, certainly not with the detail you've been able to supply.

Please keep us updated tomorrow and beyond. free spirit, Thursday at 12:23 AM #20 .revol68

what, fucking what?

Pickman's model said: ↑

load of bollocks: you know a lot about the diaz raid but not so much about the british army in the six counties.

i assume you're referring to the guineapigs among the internees. internment was introduced in 1971.

It's northern ireland, plastic paddy.

and nice to see you continue your not at all tideous nit picking cunt routine. revol68, Thursday at 12:48 AM #21 .Pickman's model

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revol68 said: ↑

It's northern ireland, plastic paddy.

and nice to see you continue your not at all tideous nit picking cunt routine.

my understandiing of a 'plastic paddy' is someone who affects to be irish while in fact having no connection with ireland. Perhaps you can show me where i've done this. Pickman's model, Thursday at 7:19 AM #22 .nessuno

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I had to return from Rome last week because i was ill (from the saharan heat in Rome) and because westminster city council wants to evict me from my home. They have chosen just the moment to inflict max damage against me when i should be in Rome to hear the final verdict concerning Diaz and when i should be finalizing my compensation negotiations. Diaz has cost me every single penny i have and all my remaining strength.

I do not have the option of doing paid work because of my injuries obtained at diaz and the fact i have to spend so much time working with the lawyers and the evidence in an attempt to get justice for myself, everyone else at Diaz and for Italy. Travelling to Genoa and Rome to oversee the final stage of Diaz is now impossible given my lack of resources and the vindictiveness of my housing authority who just ignore my problems and say i am a liar (Typical tories for you).

I had to make a decision to commit all my available resources in february of this year to finally closing the negotiations on my substantial compensation settlement. With the italian government dragging its feet and unprepared to take the first step to settling Diaz and the moves now being made by westminster city council, i am losing fast if everyone wants to know.

I never wanted the bastard Diaz police who tried to kill me at Diaz, to know they have finally beaten me...along with the help of westminster city council who i really hate. nessuno, Thursday at 9:34 AM #23 .nessuno

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Cassazione have now retired to consider the Diaz verdict.... nessuno, Thursday at 11:40 AM #24 .nessuno

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G8/Diaz: Supreme Court confirm‎s conviction against police. All 26 found guilty.

July 5, 2012 - 19:32

(ANSA) - Rome, July 5 - The Supreme Court has definitively confirmed the sentences against the officials of the State Police raided the Diaz school in Genoa during the G8 in 2001. Among the accused, the sentence of five years for the former commander of the first mobile unit in Rome Vincenzo Canterini, four years for the current head dell'anticrimine Francesco Gratteri and the former Deputy Director John UCIGOS Luperi, four years, and one to three years and eight months for the former head of the Digos of Genoa, Spartacus Mortola and the former deputy head of the SCO, Gilberto Caldarozzi .

Officials will be suspended from duty, as against them and 'applied the penalty of disqualification from public office for 5 years. nessuno, Thursday at 7:00 PM #25 8den, peterkro, Ground Elder and 5 others like this. .Pickman's model

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nessuno said: ↑

G8/Diaz: Supreme Court confirm‎s conviction against police. All 26 found guilty.

July 5, 2012 - 19:32

(ANSA) - Rome, July 5 - The Supreme Court has definitively confirmed the sentences against the officials of the State Police raided the Diaz school in Genoa during the G8 in 2001. Among the accused, the sentence of five years for the former commander of the first mobile unit in Rome Vincenzo Canterini, four years for the current head dell'anticrimine Francesco Gratteri and the former Deputy Director John UCIGOS Luperi, four years, and one to three years and eight months for the former head of the Digos of Genoa, Spartacus Mortola and the former deputy head of the SCO, Gilberto Caldarozzi .

Officials will be suspended from duty, as against them and 'applied the penalty of disqualification from public office for 5 years.

good stuff! now on to your compo Pickman's model, Thursday at 7:01 PM #26 Fedayn likes this. .nessuno

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"Justice has been done: it took 11 years to reach this verdict and the Supreme Court was courageous. Never, in Western democracies, has arrived at a conviction for so many officials of the Police and of such a high level." said lawyer Emanuel Tambuscio, a lawyer for some of the antiglobalization beaten Diaz. nessuno, Thursday at 7:02 PM #27 .Fedayn

Ooooh nifty mifty...

nessuno said: ↑

G8/Diaz: Supreme Court confirm‎s conviction against police. All 26 found guilty.

July 5, 2012 - 19:32

(ANSA) - Rome, July 5 - The Supreme Court has definitively confirmed the sentences against the officials of the State Police raided the Diaz school in Genoa during the G8 in 2001. Among the accused, the sentence of five years for the former commander of the first mobile unit in Rome Vincenzo Canterini, four years for the current head dell'anticrimine Francesco Gratteri and the former Deputy Director John UCIGOS Luperi, four years, and one to three years and eight months for the former head of the Digos of Genoa, Spartacus Mortola and the former deputy head of the SCO, Gilberto Caldarozzi .

Officials will be suspended from duty, as against them and 'applied the penalty of disqualification from public office for 5 years.

Good to hear nessuno, get your compo sorted and enjoy. Fedayn, Thursday at 7:05 PM #28 .nessuno

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Giuliano Giuliani: "There is still some justice" - justice satisfied, Giuliano Giuliani, Carlo's father, the young man who died in July 2001 during the fighting to G8: "A positive news. It happens rarely, but when it does we must accept with satisfaction . It means that in this country there is still a glimmer of justice. Now we hope that there are other pages of this kind. We will try in every way to obtain truth and justice even on the murder of Carlo ". nessuno, Thursday at 10:39 PM #29 .nessuno

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ROME - The Fifth Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the convictions for forgery for police chiefs and prescribed the injury to the other officers involved in beatings at the Diaz school in Genoa during the G8 in 2001. The decision came after nine hours of deliberation. After 11 years, the Supreme Court thus puts an end to the mexican butchers shop called Diaz.

The agents are involved in the beating and sentenced in illegal arrests of anti-globalization to the school in 2001. Then confirmed the sentence of 4 years for Giovanni Luperi (chief of AISI - italian MI6) and Francesco Gratteri (Deputy chief of police), the 5 years to Vincent Canterini (commander of 7th mobile), as well as penalties, equal to 3 years and 8 months, imposed on Gilberto Caldarozzi (anti-drugs chief), Filippo Ferri, Fabio Ciccimarra, Nando Dominici, Spartacus Mortola (chief of police of turin) , Carlo Di Sarro, Massimo Mazzoni, Renzo Cerchi, Davide Di Novi and Massimiliano Di Bernardini. Prescribed, however, the alleged crimes of a serious injury to nine agents belonging to the seventh special unit of the mobile at the time. "The judgment of the Supreme Court today to be respected as all decisions of the Judiciary.

The Interior Ministry will comply as provided by the Supreme Court, "said Interior Minister, Anna Maria Cancellieri. Police "welcomes the judgment of the judiciary with full due respect and reaffirms its commitment to continue the steady improvement of the training on the complex field public order and security, "said Chief of Police, Prefect Antonio Manganelli after the verdict. Confirmation of the judgment of the Court of Appeal will take immediate enforcement of sentences. Between prescription and pardon the sentences in each case there will be sentences but officials would mean immediate disqualification from office and suspension from duty, since for each of the 26 defendants the appellate court has ordered the penalty of disqualification from public office for five years. nessuno, Thursday at 10:50 PM #30 .

The verdict issued tonight by the Supreme Court on what happened at the Diaz school in Genoa in July 2001, Amnesty International announce that it is an important ruling that finally and definitively, although very late, recognizes that agents and state officials were guilty of serious violations of human rights of people who were supposed to protect.

However, Amnesty International points out that the failures and omissions of the state to give full justice to the victims of the violence of the G8 in Genoa are of such magnitude that these convictions still leave a bitter taste: arrived late, with sentences that do not reflect the severity crimes detected - and that mostly will not run because of the requirement - and following investigations difficult and hampered by agents and police officials that they should feel the duty to contribute to the finding of facts so serious.

Above all, these sentences involve a very small number of those who participated in the violence and criminal activities designed to hide the crimes committed. For Amnesty International, the conclusion of this difficult process can not be the end of the attempt to give full justice to the victims of the G8 in Genoa. After the phase of the investigation of individual responsibility, it is all to do an analysis that leads to shared conclusions about what did not work in Genoa in 2001 at the system level and how to ensure that this does not happen again.

Amnesty International will continue to ask the Italian institutions:

- Publicly condemn human rights violations committed by police 11 years ago and provide an apology to the victims;

- Undertake to ensure that violations such as those that happened in Genoa in 2001 will not occur again through the implementation of concrete measures to ensure the determination of liability for all violations of human rights committed by the police;

- Introduced in the Penal Code the crime of torture (Hence the appeal to be signed) and a definition of torture that includes all the features described in Article 1 of UN Convention against Torture;

- Creating the National Human Rights Institution in line with the "Principles concerning the status of national institutions" (Paris Principles);

- Ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and establish an independent national mechanism to prevent torture and ill-treatment;

- Conduct a thorough review of the provisions in force in the operations of public policy, including those relating to training and deployment of police forces employed in the demonstrations, the use of force and firearms, and takes into account the need to introduce elements of individual identification of members of the police in public order operations. nessuno, Thursday at 11:36 PM #31 .nessuno

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Rome, 6 July (AKI) - A major reorganisation at the top of Italy's police force will follow the upholding by Italy's top court of 13 senior officers' convictions over a brutal attack by riot police on protesters at a school during the Genoa G( summit in 2001.

"The men who have been convicted at the final level of appeal must be replaced," justice minister Anna Maria Cancellieri told Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Friday.

Several of the officers are investigators close to Italy's police chief Antonio Manganelli.

They include Franceso Gratteri, head of anti-crime operations, who was involved in many high-profile investigations against the mafia; Gilberto Caldarozzi, head of the police central operations unit, who played a role in capture of mafia "boss of bosses" Bernardo Provenzano in 2006; and Giovanni Luperi, the head of the police counter-terrorism unit.

The officers were convicted on Thursday by Italy Court of Cassation for complicity in planting of evidence to try to justify the unprovoked attack at the Genoa school, including a petrol bomb and clubs.

The officers will not be jailed because they benefited from a general pardon for certain offences in 2006. But they are banned from public office for five years after their definitive conviction and will be suspended from duty.

Cancellieri said Italy was losing some of its best policemen but said she wholeheartedly condemned the violent attack by police on the G8 protesters.

"Serious errors were committed at the Genoa G8 and now those who are responsible for this must pay," she stated.

"The price is very high, because we are losing some of our best men."

Twelve riot police were previously convicted for beating protesters in the school but never jailed because of Italy's statute of limitations.

More than 60 anti-globalisation campaigners were savagely beaten and one left in a coma by the police raid which occurred on the night of 21 July after rioting and pitched battles with police in Genoa.

One Italian protester was killed during some of the worst rioting seen at international summits.

Amnesty International described as the most serious suspension of democratic rights in a western country since the second world war.

Manganelli said the police would, "accept the sentence with utmost respect and commit to the constant improving of training with regard to the complex field of order and public security".

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"폭력 휘두르는 경찰의 말로, 이탈리아를 보라"

[촛불의 소리] 2001년 反신자유주 집회 폭력진압 경찰에 유죄 판결

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촛불시위대에 대한 경찰의 과도한 폭력행사를 비판하는 앰네스티 보고서가 미처 출판되기도 전에, 경찰은 앰네스티가 사실관계를 충실히 담지 못했으며 공정하지 못하다는 이유로 법적 소송을 불사하겠다고 공포했다.

또한, 경찰은 한술 더 떠서 촛불집회를 '강경하게' 진압해 수많은 인명피해를 남긴 것을 '표창'한다고 한다. 본말이 전보된 일련의 사건들을 지켜보면서 지난 여름 거리를 채웠던 수많은 촛불들은 착잡한 심정으로, 국민을 무력하게 만들며 인내심을 극한까지 발휘하게 만드는 정부를 비판하고 있다. 과연 최근 촛불시위에 대해 경찰이 취한 적반하장 식 대처를 몇 년 후 어떻게 평가하게 될까.

그 해답을 암시해주는 사건을 2001년 이탈리아의 여름에서 찾아볼 수 있다. 2001년 G8회담이 이탈리아의 제노바에서 개최되었다. 전 세계에서 참가한 이십만여 명의 시위대는 무정부주의 단체인 'Black Bloc'의 참가자들을 제외하면 대부분 합법적인 방식으로 반세계화 집회를 진행하였다. 이들은 세계화와 신자유주의의 폐해를 지적하며 항의했다.

▲ 디아즈 기숙사에서 연행되는 남녀시민.

당시 이들 중 일부는 제노바의 디아즈 페르티니 학교 기숙사에 거처하며 회담이 열리는 기간 동안 집회를 이어갔다.

자정이 가까웠을 무렵 기숙사에 머물던 100여 명의 남녀 시위대는 씻거나 이메일을 보내거나 자면서 휴식을 취하고 있었다.

바로 이 순간 이탈리아의 진압경찰이 홀연 달려들어서 기숙사를 급습했다. 경찰당국은 기숙사에 머물던 시위대들을 극단적인 폭력을 행사한 무정부주의 단체의 조직원들로 이해했다.

하지만 당시 건물 안에 머물던 대부분의 시위대는 평화적인 시위방식을 고수하던 사람들이었다.

▲ 영국인 기자 마크 코벨은 극심한 폭력을 당한 후, 한 영국 일간지가 그를 무정부주의 단체의 리더로 왜곡보도하면서 지난 7년간 극심한 피해를 입었다. 이번 판결이 나오는 데는 그가 치열하게 관련 증거를 모은 업적이 중요하게 작용했다.

경찰은 건물에 들어오기 직전 '인디미디어' 기자인 영국인 마크 코벨(Mark Covell)을 무차별적으로 구타하였다. 코벨은 거듭 이탈리아어로 자신이 기자라는 점을 밝혔지만, 그를 단지 무정부주의 단체의 조직원으로 단정 짓던 경찰은 집단폭력을 그치지 않았다. 그는 이날 자행된 폭력으로 인해 14시간 동안 의식을 회복하지 못했다.

그날 밤 극악무도한 수준의 경찰폭력에 희생된 사람은 코벨뿐만이 아니었다. 경찰은 곧이어 건물로 진입해서 당시 시위대의 안전을 관리하던 벨기에 출신의 시위대 미하엘 기저(Michael Gieser)를 공격하였다.

기저는 처음에는 경찰에게 폭력적인 진압 말고 서로 대화를 통해 사태를 해결하자고 제의했지만, 경찰은 끄떡도 하지 않은 채 그를 구타하기 시작했다.

일군의 경찰들이 기저를 무지막지하게 구타하는 사이, 또 다른 경찰들은 침낭에서 자고 있던 스페인 시위대를 공격하기 시작했다. 당시 68세였던 돌로레스 에레로(Dolores Errero)는 남녀노소를 가리지 않고 어두움 속에서 행해진 진압에서 온몸의 부상을 입었다.

이날 부상자 가운데 가장 심각한 부상을 입은 독일인 멜라니 요나쉬(Melanie Jonasch)는 시위에는 직접적으로 참가하지 않은 채 시위대들이 머물던 기숙사에서 자원활동을 도맡았다. 그녀는 이날 경찰의 집중공격 대상자가 되었다. 경찰은 처음에는 진압봉으로 반복해서 멜라니의 머리를 거세게 가격했다. 이에 요나쉬가 마침내 의식을 잃고 쓰러지자 경찰은 폭력을 멈추지 않은 채 닥치는 대로 그녀를 구타했다.

당시 현장에 같이 있었던 카트리나 오토웨이(Katherina Ottoway)에 따르면, 당시 시위대는 그녀가 맞아 죽었다고 착각할 만큼 그녀의 상태가 아주 위중했다고 전했다.

▲ 당시 무차별적으로 자행된 폭력진압의 결과, 수많은 부상자가 발생했다.

요나쉬 말고도 당시 심각한 부상을 입은 시위대 중에 또 다른 독일인 다니엘 알브레히트(Daniel Albrecht)가 포함돼 있었다.

첼로를 전공하는 알브레히트는 팔과 머리를 집중적으로 맞은 이후 4일간 의식불명사태를 겪을 만큼 상태가 위독했다.

남자친구와 더불어 시위에 참여했던 영국인 니콜라 도허티(Nicola Doherty)는 이성을 잃은 경찰로부터 여자친구를 구해주기 위해 남자친구가 그녀의 몸 위에 누워서 막아주었지만 역부족이었다.

경찰은 노출된 부위를 집중적으로 가격해서 머리를 감싸던 팔이 골절되도록 만들었고, 니콜라 주변에서 한동안 그녀를 몹시 힐난하며 인격적인 모멸감을 안겨주었다.

독일인 레나 췰케(Lena Zühlke)는 경찰을 피해 복도로 도망가다 붙잡혀서 상상을 초월하는 구타를 당했다. 그녀는 당시 사건을 가리켜 '야생토끼를 쫓아서 물어뜯는 굶주린 사냥개' 같았다고 전했다.

더 이상 저항할 의사도 힘도 없었던 시위대들를 향한 잔인한 폭력은 기숙사를 나서면서도 추호도 중단되지 않았다.

당시 시위대들은 이구동성으로 항복 의사를 강력하게 전달했지만 경찰은 요지부동이었다.

이들은 아무런 무기도 휴대하지 않은 상태에서 자신들보다 몇 배 많은 수의 진압경찰들의 폭력을 당해야 했다. 기숙사 여기저기에서는 항복의 뜻을 절박하게 전달하거나, 제발 폭력을 멈출 것을 간곡히 탄원하는 외침으로 가득했다.

이들은 경찰서에 연행되거나 병원에 이송된 뒤에도 기숙사에서 당했던 끔찍한 인권유린 못지않게 더욱 심각한 폭력에 노출되었다.

시위대는 연행 이후 변호사나 대사관 접견권을 거부당했으며, 경찰들은 반복해서 연행된 시위대들에게 물리적인 폭력을 행사하며 침을 뱉거나 언어폭력을 일삼았고, 음식이나 물을 제공하지 않으면서 허기와 갈증을 유도했고, 수면을 박탈하고, 여성연행자들에 대해서는 성폭행을 하겠다고 위협하거나 성매매여성으로 비하해서 부르기고 했다.

이들은 특히 장시간 동안 불편한 자세로 서 있도록 강요받았는데, 인공 다리를 갖고 있던 52세의 모하메드 타베흐(Mohammed Tabach)가 장애로 인해 견딜 수 없어 쓰러지자 경찰은 그를 심하게 구타하였다.

독일인 슈테판 바우어(Stefan Bauer)는 이탈리아와 독일이 모조리 유럽연합에 속해 있는 만큼 자유롭게 이동할 수 있는 권리가 있다고 주장하자, 경찰은 역시 그를 폭력으로 응대했다.

또한, 마르코 비스따치따(Mark Bistacchia)는 알몸으로 경찰견을 따라하라는 모욕적인 행위를 강요받았으며, 엄청난 공포 속에서 시키는 대로 무솔리니를 찬양하는 발언을 할 수밖에 없었다.

▲ 경찰이 시위 참가 시민 한 명을 구타하고 있다.

▲ 부상흔적이 또렷한 여성.

터키 여성인 에스터 페르치바티(Ester Percivati)는 경찰이 연거푸 그녀를 성을 파는 여성이라고 지칭하며 성기를 건드려서 치욕감을 느꼈다고 밝혔다. 또한 그녀는 여경인 바바라 아마데이(Barbara Amadei)에 의해 변기에 얼굴이 담가지는 물고문을 당하였다.

게다가 여성연행자들은 남성경관들이 지켜보는 가운데 알몸 수색을 당해야 했다. 뿐만 아니라, 경찰은 남성 연행자들을 향해 소변을 누며 파시스트 찬양가를 따라 부르도록 강요했다. 조셉 아졸리나(Joseph Azzolina)는 경찰이 그의 얼굴 바로 앞에서 최루탄을 발사해서 극심한 피해를 입었다. 사라 바르테사기에(Sara Bartesaghie)는 구치소에서 경찰이 반복해서 구금자들을 향해 최루탄을 발사했다고 증언했다.

▲시위진압은 남녀노소를 가리지 않고 서슬 퍼렇게 자행됐다. 맨 위쪽 사진은 니콜라를 비롯한 영국인 부상자들. 가운데 사진은 부상당한 채 널브러져 있는 한 여성시위대. 맨 아래 사진은 진압봉에 맞아서 온통 부상을 입은 한 시위대의 어깨.

병원이라고 해서 경찰서에 비해 추호도 안전하지 않았다. 심각한 부상을 당했음에도 불구하고 치료가 온전히 이루어지지 않아서 당시 갈비뼈가 부러져 치료를 요했던 프랑스 인 다비드 라호꿸(David Larroquelle)은 치료도 받지 못했으며 이미 골절된 손으로 서명을 하도록 강요받았다. 코뼈가 부러진 터키인 에스터 페르치바티 역시 치료를 받지 못했다.

최근 한국 경찰처럼, 당시 이탈리아 경찰도 적반하장으로 시위대들을 상대로 경찰에게 폭력을 행사한 점, 절도, 공격적인 무기 운반, 범죄조직 가입으로 기소했지만, 증거불충분으로 대부분 기각됐다.

당시 이탈리아 경찰 역시 시위대가 고소를 하기 힘들도록 신분을 확인할 수 있는 모든 인식표를 착용하지 않았다. 이탈리아 경찰의 야만적인 행위 앞에서 거의 모든 연행자들은 변호사나 대사 접견을 하지 못했으며, 이미 부상당한 상태에서 고문에 가까운 가혹행위와 모욕적인 행위를 강요받았으며, 상당수가 이탈리아어를 구사하지 못하는 외국인이었음에도 불구하고 통역서비스가 이루어지지 않았다.

제노바의 만행이 G8회담사상 유례를 찾기 힘들 만큼 강경진압과 불법적, 자의적 구금으로 채워지기 전, 강경일변도의 이탈리아 경찰의 자세는 이미 감지됐다. 경찰은 무정부주의 단체 시위대였던 이탈리아 인 까를로 지울리아니(Carlo Giuliani)가 경찰차를 공격하다 경찰이 쏜 총에 머리를 맞아 즉사한 것이다.

얼핏 법의 심판을 받지 않은 채 묻힐 듯했던 이 사건은, 엠네스티와 피해자들이 끈질기게 문제를 삼으면서 차츰 해결의 실마리를 찾게 되었다.

당시 경찰은 최소 200여명 이상을 가혹하게 연행했고, 이 가운데 상당수는 더 이상 저항할 의사가 없는 비폭력 시위대였다. 이들 중에서 최소 62명이 부상을 당하였고, 앞서 언급한 독일의 멜라니와 다니엘, 그리고 영국인 마크를 비롯하여 3명은 중상을 입었다.

구금자들이 차츰 이탈리아 경찰을 고소할 움직임을 보이자, 당시 이탈리아 치안당국은 외국인 연행자들을 즉각적으로 추방하였고, 향후 5년간 이탈리아의 입국을 금지해서 재판의 증인으로 참여할 수 없도록 꾀했다.

당시의 만행을 가리켜 한 이탈리아 경찰은 '멕시코식 정육점'이라고 부르기도 했다.

2001년 제노바의 거리와 기숙사에서 있던 시위대들은 천편일률적으로 극심한 치욕감과 무력감, 그리고 단말마의 공포를 느꼈다고 토로했다.

이들은 외부와 소통할 수 길이 극단적으로 차단된 상태에서 무법천지 같은 이탈리아에서 경찰력에 묵종해야만 하는 상황을 겪었고, 적잖은 미디어는 당시 시위대들의 폭력피해를 제대로 보도하지 않은 채 이들이 폭력을 일삼는 무정부주의 단체의 조직원들인 것처럼 알렸다.

▲ 진지한 표정의 시위대.

하지만 정의를 찾으려는 부단한 싸움 끝에 마침내 이 사건은 해결을 보게 된다.

고위경찰을 비롯한 기소된 관련자들 중에서, 총 15명의 경찰, 교도관, 의료진들에게 최소 5개월부터 5년까지의 형량이 선고됐다.

그러나 이들 대부분이 집행유예 처분을 받아서 이들 가운데 실제 징역형을 치러야 하는 사람은 없다.

이탈리아에서는 아직도 '고문'이 불법에 속하지 않아서 재판을 치르는 동안 근본적인 난항을 겪었으며, 최근 만연하고 있는 이탈리아 공권력에 의한 인권탄압을 온전히 막을 수단이 부족하다는 점이 또 다시 강조됐다.

기소된 사람들 중에는 남녀 경찰이 골고루 포함돼 있었으며, 몇몇 소식통에 의하면 이탈리아 경찰 가운데 상당수가 실제로 파시스트 조직이나 극우당에 소속돼 있을 것이라고 추정하고 있다.

예컨대, 구치소에서 시위대들에게 연거푸 파시스트 찬양구호를 외치게 하거나, 진압이 유난히 남녀노소를 가리지 않고 무차별적으로 행해진 것도 일종의 증오범죄의 성격이 강하다고 진단하는 의견도 개진된다.

▲ 마크 코벨을 비롯한 당시 사건의 고소인들.

당시 시위에 참여해서 잔인한 폭력에 노출된 시위대들은 여전히 외상후스트레스 장애를 앓고 있다.

이들 중 몇몇은 이미 7년이 지난 지금까지도 여전히 악몽을 꾸며 트라우마에 시달리고 있다.

이들을 가장 매섭게 할퀴고 있는 기억은 육체적인 부상을 떠나서, 법과 정의가 사라진 경찰국가에서 속수무책으로 당해야 했던 공포와 모멸의 순간에 대한 질긴 상처일 듯하다.

비록 형량이 미미하기는 하지만, 이탈리아 법원이 당시 초강경진압을 야기했던 관련자들에게 법적인 심판을 내리며 희생자들에게 금전적인 보상을 언도한 것은 긍정적인 결과로 주목된다.

촛불의 열기로 후끈 달아올랐던 최근, 우리는 수많은 사건을 목격했다. 시위대 바로 앞에서 물대포를 발사함으로써 고막을 파열시키고, 시위 중 쓰러진 여성을 군홧발로 짓밟으며 몽둥이를 휘두르고, 중년의 남성을 연행하면서 단체로 힐난하며 모욕감을 가하고, 누워서 평화적인 시위를 외치던 시위대를 밟고 구타하며 지나가던 경찰의 모습을 생생히 보았다.

국가가 국민을 위협할 때 파시즘은 생생하게 재현되며 시민권은 가차 없이 유린된다. 2008년 거리를 달궜던 사람들은 촛불을 으깬 공권력과 군홧발과 몽둥이, 물대포에 부상을 입은 사람들을 망각하지 않을 것이다.

먼 훗날 다시금 정의가 우리들을 비출 때 질문해야 한다. 당시 피해자들에게 충분히 보상이 되었는지, 그때 시민을 폭정으로 옭아맨 사람들은 온전히 법의 심판을 받았는지에 관해서 똑똑히 질문해야 한다.

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2012년7월11일 진보넷

제노바에서 일어난 국가 폭력행위 : 국제적 행동을 호소한다

[Z넷(www.zmag.org)] 7/22

우리는 자본주의 세계화에 대항한 운동의 짧은 역사에서 최악의 인권침해를 목격한
후에 제노바에 있는 제노바사회포럼(GSF)과 인디미디어 빌딩에서 기사를 쓰고 있
다. 지난 20일에 두 사람이 경찰에 의해 죽었는데 한 명은 제노바에서, 다른 한 명
은 국경부근에서였다. 그리고 이 건물 앞에서 불과 몇 시간 전에 또 다른 누군가가
우리 모두의 삶에서 보았던 것 중에 가장 잔인한 파시스트 국가폭력 상황 속에서
죽었을 수도 있다.
오늘밤 경찰은 제노바 사회포럼의 숙소 중 하나인 (길 건너) 디아즈 학교를 침탈했
는데 당시 사람들은 자고 있었다. 대부분의 사람들이 걸을 수 없을 정도까지 모든
사람을 구타를 당한 뒤 들것에 실려 나갔다. 학교에서 나온 들것을 모두 헤아릴 수
가 없었기 때문에 우리는 얼마나 많은 사람들이 중상을 입었는지 알 수 없었다. 경
찰은 부상자를 운송하기 위해 약 30대의 구급차를 불러왔다. 또한 그들은 적어도
한 사람 또는 두 사람의 몸은 들어갈만한 자루을 가져왔다. 그러나 우리는 시체가
몇 구인지에 대해서는 아직 정확히 알지 못한다. 체포되기 전에 구출된 한 사람의
증언에 따르면 그가 있는 1층으로 경찰이 침입해 들어왔을 때 사람들은 마루에 누
워 '폭력 반대'를 외치고 있었다. 경찰은 사람들을 심하게 구타하자 한 경관이 나
서 무자비한 폭력을 멈추게 할 정도였다. 인디미디어(http://italy.indymedia.org)
가 찍은 사진 중 하나에는 벽에 커다란 핏자국이 나 있는 구석 바로 옆에 못이 박
힌 널빤지가 피로 덮여 있다.
또한 같은 시간에 경찰은 제노바 사회포럼과 인디미디어 건물을 폭력적으로 침탈하
여, 자료를 파손시키고 압수해 갔다. 그들은 (비록 건물이 최루가스로 가득 차있어
숨쉬기가 어려웠지만) 아무도 공격하지는 않았다. 경찰이 부상자들을 옮기는 동안
에 이탈리아 국회의원들이 디아즈 학교로 들어가려고 시도했지만 경찰에 의해 제
지당했다.
20일과 21일에 거리에서 있었던 경찰의 폭력행위는 근래의 서유럽 역사상 전례가
없는 일이었다. 20일에 그들은 제노바에서 한 청년 시위자를 살해했다. 그는 이마
와 볼에 두 발의 총을 맞았고, 그 시신 위로 차가 후진하면서 짓밟기까지 했다. 같
은 날 젊은 프랑스 여성이 벤떼밀리아 국경에서 경찰이 그녀와 다른 사람들이 이탈
리아로 들어가는 것을 막는 과정에서 사망했다. 경찰은 이 행동에 참여한 모든 집
단을 공격했고 최루가스를 난사했다. 이를테면 그들은 평화 행진을 하는 집회장소
에 헬리콥터로부터 최루가스를 난사했고 뚜떼 비앙께와 세계 인권네트워크가 행동
을 시작하기도 전에 공격했고 그래서 부상자의 수를 아직 정확히 알 수가 없는 상
황이다. 그들은 각기 다른 정치적 표현을 의도적으로 섞으면서 분쟁을 유도했다.
가령 블랙블록(블랙블록이라는 말은 지난 99년 시애틀에서 열린 WTO회의 당시 반세
계화 시위 때 이미 사용됐으며, 그 의미는 시위대 본류와는 접촉없이 별도의 행동
을 계획하는 고도로 조직화된 그룹들을 지칭한다. 이번에 제노바에 나타난 블랙블
록 대부분은 독일, 이탈리아, 프랑스, 스페인의 바스크지역에서 왔고 체포된 사람
은 거의 없었던 것으로 알려졌다-옮긴이)을 평화적인 집회 장소로 밀어냈다. 21일
에 그들은 전혀 아무 이유없이 일부의 시위에 대해 강경한 공세를 펼쳤다. 전체 지
역(제노바사회포럼 회의장과 인근 해변을 위해 마련된 주차장까지도)에 최루가스를
난사했고 해변에서 경찰을 피해 일부 사람들이 바다로 뛰어들었는데 물 속에는 경
찰 보트가 있었다. 20, 21일 양일에 온 종일, 도시 전체에서 경찰이 유도한 것이
분명한 도발로 인해 폭동이 일어났다. 도발의 형식은 다양했다. 텔레비전은 경찰차
를 검게 더럽히고 유리창을 부수는 사람들의 집단으로 이미지화해서 보여주었고 최
근에는 블랙블록이 눈에 띄게 잠입했다고 보도하였다. 우리는 정중하게 블랙블록에
있는 우리 친구들에게 그들 자신을 위해서 뿐만 아니라, 다른 사람들을 위해서 이
현상의 의미를 숙고해줄 것을 요청했다. 이러한 요구가 그들이 대대적인 집단 행동
을 보여주는 것조차 하지 말라는 것을 의미하는 것은 아니며, 단지 우리는 그들이
집단행동을 할 때 임무와 선택을 재고할 것을 부탁한 것일 뿐이다. 이것이 가능한
한가지 방법은 A16에서 블랙블록이 성공적으로 수행했던 것과 유사하게 다른 집단
과의 연대와 방어에 초점을 맞추는 역할을 하는 것이다.
병원으로 실려간 사람들 중 심각한 상태가 아닌 사람은 응급치료를 받은 즉시 체포
되었다. 비폭력 그룹 소속의 한 활동가는 두 손을 든 채 마루에 앉아서 심하게 두
들겨 맞았다. 경찰서에서 그는 거기의 다른 사람들과 함께 여러 차례 고문을 당했
다. 경찰은 이미 부상을 입은 상처 부위에 다시 구타를 했으며, 아무런 이유없이
그를 난폭하게 다루었다. 체포되었다가 풀려난 사람들이 말하길 경찰은 모든 사람
들 때렸으며 강제로 그들에게 'viva il duce'(비바 일 두체, '대장 만세')를 외치
게 했다고 한다. 그것은 '무솔리니여 영원하라'라는 의미이다.
경찰의 폭력행위는 시위가 시작되기 훨씬 전부터 시작되었다. 지난주 경찰은 이탈
리아 전역을 샅샅이 뒤지고 다녔고, 이곳의 모든 사람들은 이것이 사회 운동을 파
괴하기 위하여 1970년 대 이탈리아에서 사용된 바 있는 긴장 전략의 부활로 여겼
다. 우편 폭탄이 (누군가에 의해?)경찰에 배달되었고, 경찰은 제노바 도심에 몇일
동안 같은 장소에 주차되어 있다는 이유로 자동차를 폭파했으며, 시위자와 사회적
테러집단에 대한 망상적 공포감을 만들어내기 위해 (제노바 사회포럼의 숙소 중 한
곳을 포함해서) 여러 곳에 폭탄이 설치되었다고 언론을 통해 거듭 주장했다. 그들
은 또한 시위 전에 몇몇 사람을 체포했다. 그 중에는 캠핑용 손도끼(경찰은 이것을
레드존을 분쇄하는데 사용될 것이라고 주장했다)를 가지고 있다는 이유로 벤 갇혀
4일 동안 감금상태에 있었던 젊은 여성의의 사례도 있었다. 그녀와 함께 체포된 사
람들은 세 장의 연작 포스터(포르노그래픽, 무솔리니, 전투 중인 나치군)를 강제로
봐야 했던 것을 포함해 육체적, 심리적인 고문을 당했다.
우리는 많은 연대와 비난 시위가 세계 전역에서 빠르게 일어나고 있다는 것과 더
많은 계획들이 있다는 것을 알고 있다(http://italy.indymedia.org를 보라). 우리
는 아직은 그러한 계획이 없는 모든 그룹들에게 이탈리아에서 벌어진 포악한 인권
학대에 대한 값비싼 대가를 지불하는 책임을 질 때까지 계속적인 투쟁을 준비할 것
을 요청할 것이다. 우리는 베를루스코니 정부 퇴진이 최소한의 요구가 되어야 할
것이라고 이들 그룹들에 제안했다. 이탈리아 대사관의 주소는
http://www.ethoseurope.org/ethos/embassies.nsf이며, 이탈리아 대사관 링크로 가
라.
베를루스코니 총리와 다른 G8 정상들을 향해 이 상황을 중대한 국제적인 문제로 인
식할 것을 요구해야 한다. 이것은 기본적인 정의감에서뿐만 아니라 우리의 운동과
그것에 매달리는 우리들 다수의 생존에 대해 생각했기 때문이다. 이번 만행은 세계
가 우리에게 귀기울이기 시작하고 있다는 명백한 사실에 대해 부유한 자들과 권력
자들이 매우 당황하고 있다는 것을 보여준다. 더 이상 우리를 주변적이고 임시적인
현상으로 간주할 수 없다는 것을 인식한 그들은 이제 허울뿐인 민주주의의 모든
마스크를 벗고 억압과 폭력 그리고 테러행위라는 그들의 진정한 얼굴 보여주고 있
는 것이다.