nessuno
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For a long time i have read all over the web that genoa was all about violent thugs doing the summit hopping in 2000/2001. The debate happens here as well as on other sites like indymedia.
Time to set the record straight on alot of things that happened during that G8. My sources are court documentation, video footage and police radio traffic that come from two trials (one of them still ongoing) in Genova. Plus OP genova 2001- http://www.processig8.org/OP.html . Part one is revealed now: what happened on the 20th of july 2001 at the height of the G8 protest ( it is by no means a full history). Part two on Diaz will be published soon.
For a long time the truth of what happened there has been shouded in mystery and legend. it was only with the development of time/data codes extracted from the "trial of the 25" and "the Diaz raid" that many of the video tapes could be sychronised to finally reveal what actually happened. Combined with police /emergency 113/118 phone calls and police radio traffic from friday afternoon (20th july)and saturday night/ sunday (21/22nd July)
It has now become clear that the main Carabinieri unit, under the command of Modelli disobeyed orders from Police Questura for some 45 minutes and attacked Tute Bianche (the italian white overalls).
Orginally, and it was revealed in the trial of the 25, that the police plan at Genova was to allow Tute Bianche and the other demos to the Redzone barrier, surround and contain the demos with the aim of protecting the side streets and public property in Eastern Genova. Mondelli destroyed the official Police plan. Whilst being directed up to Marrassi prison to deal with the real black block, he decided to attack a legally authorised demo that had parliamentary MP's and a police liason team on the front. The size of hte demo was 5,500 armoured activists and 30,000 other people. mostly italian.
It took 45 minutes for Police Questura to dispatch a message via messenger and get Mondelli to withdraw. By this time, he had lost half of his 200 men unit to exhaustion, fighting and injury. Due to the fact that Mondelli had split the biggest demo in Genova into the side streets just east of Brignole Station, the police plan was useless. Forced to commit other units to support the withdraw of Mondelli, caused the deployment of Canterini's 7th unit from rome to come to the aid of Mondelli directly. Another carabineri unit sent forward was commanded by Bruno. Within this unit was Mario Planncanica, the cop that was to shoot Carlo Guiliani dead.
In testimony in the trial of the 25, Bruno was ordered to take and hold Piazza Alimonda. he was also ordered not to take on Tute Bianche who were clashing with Canterini's men on Via Tolemaide. He disobeyed this order by attacking Tute Bianche which caused the demo to drive Bruno's men into a confused retreat. Whilst Bruno had not given an order for Planncanica's jeep to follow, it did. In the chaotic retreat, Bruno's men ran past the two jeeps and retreated south. Planncanica's jeep was immobilised because it could not reverse or turn around.
Meantime, Canterini's unit pushed back Tute Bianche with tanks and water cannon. It then mopped up causing serious human rights abuses even before being deployed later for the Diaz raid.
Mondelli's failure to obey orders allowed the 'fake black block' to run amok in eastern Genoa. 88 businesses (mostly small) and 105 cars were destroyed. It will be continued to be argued that this was by design anyway.
Another grim piece of evidence revealed in the 'trial of the 25' was that mondelli, Canterini and Bruno's men used unauthorised, illegal batons. The regular issue is not designed to break bones. The illegal batons appeared to be heavy steel manganise steel will little rubber prootection. put simply, it was like being hit with a crowbar used with extreme force. The commanding officers could not account for see video footage of their men using both types of batons at the same time.
Spartaco Mortola, A DIGOS commander attached to Canterini, revealed in court that his police vans, weighing at least 4 tons, had been used to deliberately to run over protesters and attempt to kill them. His men were also responsible for firing an entire clip of pistol ammunition into Tute Bianche (without hitting anyone). Mortola is primary on trial for his crimes at the Diaz Raid though.
By the evening of the 20th of July as the fires were being dampened, both sides withdrew. A shocked world watched the killing of a protester on their TV. the world was not to know that for most of the afternoon, the G8 history was not being decided by either side but by a man called Mondelli.
Whilst 24 of the 25 protester were given guilty verdicts in December 2007 (the highest is 14 years for attacking a cop), Mondelli and Bruno are being sent for trial in Rome. Officially both are a disgrace to the Carabineri service and reputation.
For those who argue (i hope to include the daily mail posters here) that people went to Genova for a fight, there are wrong. The movement of movements had no idea that it was walking into a private agenda of Fini to deal with his left wing opponents. Commanders like Mondelli, Canterini and Bruno would go on to be responsible for tragic loss of life that should of not happend combined with massive human rights abuse that have caused Amnesty International to describe it as the worst human rights abuse in europe since WWII.
Genova was described as the weekend war by the guardian. If you were there, it is an apt description. The movement, which was there to warn the world about climate change, appeal to the G8 over the plight of Africa and free trade (dropping subsidies) and dropping the Debt was seen as a threat that had to be crushed.
http://www.g8genoa-diaz-trial.org/index1.html
Part two. "The Diaz Raid" will be published soon.
Please feel free to ask questions for research or debate.
Time to set the record straight on alot of things that happened during that G8. My sources are court documentation, video footage and police radio traffic that come from two trials (one of them still ongoing) in Genova. Plus OP genova 2001- http://www.processig8.org/OP.html . Part one is revealed now: what happened on the 20th of july 2001 at the height of the G8 protest ( it is by no means a full history). Part two on Diaz will be published soon.
For a long time the truth of what happened there has been shouded in mystery and legend. it was only with the development of time/data codes extracted from the "trial of the 25" and "the Diaz raid" that many of the video tapes could be sychronised to finally reveal what actually happened. Combined with police /emergency 113/118 phone calls and police radio traffic from friday afternoon (20th july)and saturday night/ sunday (21/22nd July)
It has now become clear that the main Carabinieri unit, under the command of Modelli disobeyed orders from Police Questura for some 45 minutes and attacked Tute Bianche (the italian white overalls).
Orginally, and it was revealed in the trial of the 25, that the police plan at Genova was to allow Tute Bianche and the other demos to the Redzone barrier, surround and contain the demos with the aim of protecting the side streets and public property in Eastern Genova. Mondelli destroyed the official Police plan. Whilst being directed up to Marrassi prison to deal with the real black block, he decided to attack a legally authorised demo that had parliamentary MP's and a police liason team on the front. The size of hte demo was 5,500 armoured activists and 30,000 other people. mostly italian.
It took 45 minutes for Police Questura to dispatch a message via messenger and get Mondelli to withdraw. By this time, he had lost half of his 200 men unit to exhaustion, fighting and injury. Due to the fact that Mondelli had split the biggest demo in Genova into the side streets just east of Brignole Station, the police plan was useless. Forced to commit other units to support the withdraw of Mondelli, caused the deployment of Canterini's 7th unit from rome to come to the aid of Mondelli directly. Another carabineri unit sent forward was commanded by Bruno. Within this unit was Mario Planncanica, the cop that was to shoot Carlo Guiliani dead.
In testimony in the trial of the 25, Bruno was ordered to take and hold Piazza Alimonda. he was also ordered not to take on Tute Bianche who were clashing with Canterini's men on Via Tolemaide. He disobeyed this order by attacking Tute Bianche which caused the demo to drive Bruno's men into a confused retreat. Whilst Bruno had not given an order for Planncanica's jeep to follow, it did. In the chaotic retreat, Bruno's men ran past the two jeeps and retreated south. Planncanica's jeep was immobilised because it could not reverse or turn around.
Meantime, Canterini's unit pushed back Tute Bianche with tanks and water cannon. It then mopped up causing serious human rights abuses even before being deployed later for the Diaz raid.
Mondelli's failure to obey orders allowed the 'fake black block' to run amok in eastern Genoa. 88 businesses (mostly small) and 105 cars were destroyed. It will be continued to be argued that this was by design anyway.
Another grim piece of evidence revealed in the 'trial of the 25' was that mondelli, Canterini and Bruno's men used unauthorised, illegal batons. The regular issue is not designed to break bones. The illegal batons appeared to be heavy steel manganise steel will little rubber prootection. put simply, it was like being hit with a crowbar used with extreme force. The commanding officers could not account for see video footage of their men using both types of batons at the same time.
Spartaco Mortola, A DIGOS commander attached to Canterini, revealed in court that his police vans, weighing at least 4 tons, had been used to deliberately to run over protesters and attempt to kill them. His men were also responsible for firing an entire clip of pistol ammunition into Tute Bianche (without hitting anyone). Mortola is primary on trial for his crimes at the Diaz Raid though.
By the evening of the 20th of July as the fires were being dampened, both sides withdrew. A shocked world watched the killing of a protester on their TV. the world was not to know that for most of the afternoon, the G8 history was not being decided by either side but by a man called Mondelli.
Whilst 24 of the 25 protester were given guilty verdicts in December 2007 (the highest is 14 years for attacking a cop), Mondelli and Bruno are being sent for trial in Rome. Officially both are a disgrace to the Carabineri service and reputation.
For those who argue (i hope to include the daily mail posters here) that people went to Genova for a fight, there are wrong. The movement of movements had no idea that it was walking into a private agenda of Fini to deal with his left wing opponents. Commanders like Mondelli, Canterini and Bruno would go on to be responsible for tragic loss of life that should of not happend combined with massive human rights abuse that have caused Amnesty International to describe it as the worst human rights abuse in europe since WWII.
Genova was described as the weekend war by the guardian. If you were there, it is an apt description. The movement, which was there to warn the world about climate change, appeal to the G8 over the plight of Africa and free trade (dropping subsidies) and dropping the Debt was seen as a threat that had to be crushed.
http://www.g8genoa-diaz-trial.org/index1.html
Part two. "The Diaz Raid" will be published soon.
Please feel free to ask questions for research or debate.
