Nel 2001 si teneva a Genova un vertice G8 destinato a rimanere nella storia non tanto per la cronaca politica, quanto per i violenti scontri e per i fatti di sangue che lo hanno caratterizzato. Un Giorno in Pretura ripercorre la storia di quegli eventi traumatici, facendo il punto sulle numerose vicende giudiziarie che ne sono scaturite. Dal processo contro i manifestanti violenti alla morte di Carlo Giuliani, passando per i procedimenti relativi all'irruzione nella scuola Diaz e agli abusi della caserma di Bolzaneto. Due processi questi ultimi, che vedono coinvolte decine di operatori e dirigenti della Polizia, e che annoverano più di cento parti civili per fatti denunciati da Amnesty International come "gravi violazioni dei diritti umani".
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00:00:01The distance of ten years in my opinion leaves a bit of bitterness because if it is true that there is pain
00:00:10undoubtedly on the part of the offended people, there can also be a moral and personal drama on the part of those who are subjected
00:00:19to a proceeding complaining and believing, I say legitimately, to be extraneous to the facts.
00:00:30Let's redo the testuccine and try again to invade the red zone.
00:00:36Doctor Mondelli, Doctor Mondelli continues on to Marazzi.
00:00:44They massacred a person already on the ground by kicking him.
00:00:50There's a boy in a pool of blood who's losing consciousness.
00:00:58The most dramatic moment is when I finally manage to enter the Diaz.
00:01:03There are pictures because words can't describe it.
00:01:10Celissi understood that they had come to massacre us.
00:01:14I think I said the words, I'm a journalist, while I was being beaten by Manganello.
00:01:20No, further back, please.
00:01:21No close-ups, these are championships.
00:01:23While Sara was telling me these things, I told myself it's not possible.
00:01:28It felt like we had fallen into Pinochet's Chile or the dictators' Argentina.
00:01:35These things don't happen here.
00:01:36You can't understand, I can stay here, we do 20 broadcasts, you will never understand what happened in there.
00:01:44My life was ruined in those hours.
00:01:47I regret not protecting them.
00:01:50I thought about myself, like everyone does.
00:01:58Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,
00:02:03Police trials are difficult trials.
00:02:12Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,
00:02:48In Genoa the State had presented a face
00:02:53which had shown how the State, when it feels threatened, is capable of violating fundamental rights.
00:03:05Good evening, this evening a special episode of a day in the courthouse dedicated to judicial history
00:03:13arising from the tragic events that occurred during the G8 in Genoa on 19, 20 and 21 July 2001.
00:03:21Ten years have passed, but the final word has not yet been written on this terrible page in Italian history.
00:03:29These were long, complex investigations, weighed down by pressure, difficulties, and suspicions.
00:03:36It is precisely from these investigations that we start.
00:03:42The Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office has opened four investigations into the G8 events.
00:03:46In total, there are approximately 600 people under investigation in the various proceedings, over a hundred of whom are members of the police force.
00:03:54Here we even involved top, top-level members of the police force.
00:04:03Even asking another police force to collaborate in the investigation against the leaders of another force
00:04:10it was a situation bordering on the paradoxical.
00:04:14We personally conducted the investigation as public prosecutors and this obviously did not make the task easier.
00:04:23because it was a battle against our own army, against the generals of what is our army on a daily basis.
00:04:35The investigations on which there have been the most expectations are those on Piazza Alimunda,
00:04:40where on July 20th Carlo Giuliani was killed by a gunshot fired by a conscript carabiniere, Mario
00:04:46Placanica.
00:04:48The largest file concerns the violence in Piazza.
00:04:52The investigation was divided into two strands, one against the suspected black bloc members and the protesters,
00:04:58the other towards the police.
00:05:03The case of Alessandro Perugini, deputy director of the Genoese Digos, has caused a stir.
00:05:09filmed while he kicked a defenseless young man in the face.
00:05:14You suck! You suck!
00:05:19The most delicate investigation, because it involves around eighty policemen,
00:05:23including senior officials and managers,
00:05:25it is the one for the raid on the Diaz school and the nearby Pascoli school,
00:05:29which housed the press center of the Genoa Social Forum,
00:05:33and where the violence was limited to the destruction of computers, cameras and recorders.
00:05:44And finally, the investigation into the violence against protesters in custody inside the Bolzaneto barracks.
00:05:51The investigation involves both law enforcement and health workers,
00:05:55who operated within the facility.
00:05:59In those three days something in public order went wrong.
00:06:03Hundreds of thousands of people had arrived in Genoa,
00:06:07all belonging to the No Global movement,
00:06:11ranging from scouts to Casarini's white overalls.
00:06:14How did you prepare?
00:06:17We had three official meetings with the highest representatives of the Police,
00:06:24with Gianni De Gennaro, who was then the Chief of Police,
00:06:28and we have always been very clear.
00:06:30We claim the constitutional right to demonstrate.
00:06:36We will demonstrate peacefully.
00:06:38it is the role of the State and the police,
00:06:42to guarantee the right to peaceful expression of dissent.
00:06:56We had made a choice, that of raising our hands.
00:07:01That is, just to show that we were peaceful and non-violent,
00:07:05no order service.
00:07:07From these words it was understood that a component of the movement
00:07:11he intended to use the black blocs,
00:07:13why organize an order service
00:07:15expresses the will not to accept acts of violence.
00:07:19This is the statement from a few days ago
00:07:22of the then deputy police commissioner of Genoa, Giovanni Calesini.
00:07:27White summarizes all the colors,
00:07:29which we all carry with us,
00:07:31and then it's a symbol of peace.
00:07:32We were very worried,
00:07:35because a statement had come out in a newspaper
00:07:39of the then Vice President of the Council, Gianfranco Fini,
00:07:42which spoke of the presence of the army in Genoa.
00:07:47We immediately raised this issue at the meeting.
00:07:50But how?
00:07:50The army?
00:07:51For an event that we want to organize
00:07:54absolutely peacefully?
00:07:55And it was there that the Minister of the Interior
00:07:58he totally denied the statements
00:07:59of the Vice President of the Council,
00:08:00saying that the army will not be in Genoa.
00:08:04And we asked in that meeting
00:08:06that the police
00:08:09which would have been used
00:08:11to the presence in the square,
00:08:13therefore to the control of the demonstrations,
00:08:15they had no firearms.
00:08:19Because we came from the terrible experience of Gothenburg,
00:08:22where in front of another demonstration
00:08:25there had been a very harsh repression,
00:08:28a boy had been injured
00:08:30and at that moment he was still between life and death.
00:08:33The response is from the Minister of the Interior,
00:08:36Scaiola, both the police chief
00:08:38it was that they would have had firearms instead,
00:08:42but that they guaranteed
00:08:43that would never have been used.
00:08:45Never.
00:08:46The army was not used in the squares,
00:08:49but about 20,000 men
00:08:50between the police, the financial police and the Carabinieri
00:08:54they were employed in a Genoa divided into zones.
00:08:58One was reserved for the eight most powerful people on earth,
00:09:02the red zone.
00:09:04Which had never happened anywhere in the world,
00:09:07with those bars that completely enclosed
00:09:10the center of Genoa,
00:09:11which deprived them of freedom of movement
00:09:14the citizens of Genoa.
00:09:24And there should have been a yellow zone around it
00:09:26where there would also have been a ban on demonstrating.
00:09:31Officially the yellow zone was not cancelled,
00:09:35in fact it was cancelled.
00:09:37Why is it actually being erased?
00:09:39Why the movement agrees with the police
00:09:43to limit demonstrations in the city streets as much as possible
00:09:46and is concentrated in the so-called thematic squares,
00:09:50identified with respect to the claimed objectives
00:09:54from individual organizations.
00:09:55And on July 19th the migrants' demonstration begins
00:09:59to claim a world without borders.
00:10:11I had been to the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in January
00:10:15and I had developed this interest in this new reality
00:10:19which was manifesting itself in Italy and in the world.
00:10:22Genoa was evidently the greatest opportunity,
00:10:24most important in Italy, but perhaps also in Europe,
00:10:27at that stage to get to know each other closely,
00:10:30to meet this movement.
00:10:44I was also tempted, I must say, to participate too.
00:10:47more than at demonstrations, meetings, debates
00:10:51to understand a little more.
00:10:53Then on one hand it was the first big demonstration
00:10:56and conferences, debates, in which Sara participated
00:10:59who was 21 years old and so I felt a bit like I was playing the mother
00:11:03who runs after his daughter, in short, and so it seemed right to say
00:11:06OK, it's right that you follow this thing, experience it and then leave.
00:11:11We would have liked to ask the police directly
00:11:15how they had organized themselves to receive this multitude of demonstrators,
00:11:20but no one wanted or was able to respond or make themselves available.
00:11:24But the organization obviously existed and we know that it was spreading.
00:11:28a serious alarm, a great alarm, as nurse Marco Pocci tells us.
00:11:34We expected to be nurses like we were at home.
00:11:41Instead on Tuesday morning, where the first briefing took place,
00:11:48we met the health manager of this facility,
00:11:52in camouflage overalls,
00:11:56and he gave us some papers that talked about chemical warfare,
00:12:01that my colleague and I looked at each other
00:12:04and we started smiling.
00:12:06For weeks, practically all the media,
00:12:10with very few exceptions,
00:12:13they talked about the G8,
00:12:15not telling the characters we invited.
00:12:19There were articles that mixed the movement,
00:12:24with terrorism.
00:12:25There was talk of attacks, of bombs, of infected blood,
00:12:29in short, a tension had been built up
00:12:31which somehow worried me.
00:12:36They were talking about groups of protesters
00:12:38who were organizing to kidnap
00:12:40a single policeman and use him as a human shield.
00:12:53Sara called us,
00:12:54he told us about the migrant demonstration on Thursday,
00:12:57which had been a beautiful demonstration,
00:12:59without any tension, without any problem.
00:13:03She had left with a friend from Milan,
00:13:05Madù Maddalena,
00:13:06and they had been sleeping together,
00:13:08I think the first and second night,
00:13:10at the Carlini stadium.
00:13:23Thursday, July 19th, everything went smoothly,
00:13:26it's only hope and joy,
00:13:28but it's Friday the day,
00:13:31that tragic day that will change the face
00:13:34to the entire G8 demonstration in Genoa.
00:13:48On the afternoon of July 20th,
00:13:50Friday,
00:13:51I was at the thematic square
00:13:53of Lila, of Arci, of FIOM,
00:13:55and that is in Piazza Dante.
00:13:57I get a phone call
00:14:00of the mayor of Genoa,
00:14:02Pericu,
00:14:04who tells me he is furious,
00:14:07use very strong tones,
00:14:09why the police
00:14:12they are facing the thematic squares
00:14:15of the movement,
00:14:16which are all absolutely quiet,
00:14:18he says it,
00:14:19instead of dealing with that
00:14:21that the black bloc groups
00:14:22they are doing in the city.
00:14:50So the mayor asks me,
00:14:51if it is possible for us to return
00:14:56from a thematic square
00:14:58to ensure that law enforcement
00:15:00can take care of that
00:15:02what the black blocs do.
00:15:03And I tell him
00:15:04that our choice
00:15:06is to bring back
00:15:07all the thematic squares,
00:15:09because now the result
00:15:11we got it,
00:15:12what result?
00:15:13To demonstrate that the eight great
00:15:14who want to decide the fate of the world
00:15:16I'm alone,
00:15:18isolated inside the red zone,
00:15:19that in order to be able to make their decisions
00:15:21they need to have thousands
00:15:23of policemen around
00:15:24and that are surrounded
00:15:25from an immense multitude.
00:15:35We have decided
00:15:37that this is a square
00:15:38of political content,
00:15:39not discounts.
00:15:41So politically we won,
00:15:43we would have removed our garrisons.
00:15:45It's at that moment
00:15:47that I receive,
00:15:49I'm talking to Casarini
00:15:50which was in another area
00:15:52white overalls
00:15:52to whom I say
00:15:53then we congratulated this
00:15:54and he was very agitated
00:15:56he tells me
00:15:56but what, agreed what?
00:15:58That they are massacring us here.
00:16:00And now there's the charge.
00:16:16We need to get on this charge
00:16:18that we just saw
00:16:19and that was the beginning
00:16:20of all the clashes
00:16:22provide some information.
00:16:24It was done independently
00:16:26from the carabinieri,
00:16:27unauthorized
00:16:28from the police officer
00:16:31who had
00:16:31operational responsibility.
00:16:34The Carabinieri
00:16:35they had been called
00:16:37to head towards
00:16:38towards a place
00:16:38where they were operating
00:16:40of the black blocks
00:16:41but they took the wrong road
00:16:43and they came across
00:16:45in a procession
00:16:46authorized
00:16:47white overalls.
00:16:56a very violent charge
00:16:58we are facing
00:17:01by means
00:17:02motor vehicles
00:17:03launched at 60-70 km/h
00:17:05on the road
00:17:06On Pavement.
00:17:09A situation
00:17:10that can kill.
00:17:22DO IT!
00:17:31Then there was
00:17:32the agents' room
00:17:34where we were too
00:17:35there was television
00:17:37and the attack began
00:17:40in Toremaile street.
00:17:42From there they began
00:17:45let's say
00:17:46the biggest things
00:17:48the most treatable things.
00:18:17oh god fuck
00:18:18there is a piece
00:18:19Goodbye!
00:18:20No!
00:18:21no damn it!
00:18:24shit!
00:18:28Carlo had been
00:18:29at the demonstration
00:18:31of migrants
00:18:32Thursday
00:18:33it had also been
00:18:34at the concert
00:18:35by Manu Ciavo.
00:18:36Friday
00:18:37I heard it
00:18:38at 3
00:18:38I called him
00:18:40he told me
00:18:41which was
00:18:41in Manin Square
00:18:43I regret
00:18:43of not having succeeded
00:18:45to
00:18:46to tell him
00:18:47to come home.
00:18:49look if I regret
00:19:04at a certain point
00:19:06I feel like I'm being hit on the head
00:19:07and I saw that I was bleeding.
00:19:11I told them to move away, go away, but they didn't calm down.
00:19:18I decided at this moment to fire two shots.
00:19:27Oh god damn there's one more...
00:19:29Hate!
00:19:30No!
00:19:32The only trial that never took place was the one for Carlo's murder.
00:19:46December 2, 2002.
00:19:48After more than a year of investigations into the death of Carlo Giuliani,
00:19:52the public prosecutor files the request for archiving.
00:19:58The GIP accepts it on the basis of the expert reports
00:20:01who established that Placanica shot upwards
00:20:03and that the bullet was deflected by the impact with a piece of rubble.
00:20:08They said the shot was aimed at the air,
00:20:12bad luck would have it that the bullet hit some rubble
00:20:16that flew in the sky of Genoa
00:20:20and it was deflected down into Carlo's head.
00:20:23That is, something so unlikely to raise
00:20:27even hilarity, if it were the case to raise hilarity about this affair.
00:20:35And finally the magistrate concludes
00:20:38that the auxiliary carabiniere Mario Placanica,
00:20:41when he shot,
00:20:43he was so terrified that he didn't understand what he was doing.
00:20:47For me it was something unexpected,
00:20:50I didn't expect something like this.
00:20:56Also because there wasn't a single person in front of me when I shot.
00:21:00I couldn't see it, but it wasn't there,
00:21:02I realized that there was no one there.
00:21:06The Giuliani family formally opposes the case's dismissal
00:21:11and after two years the investigating judge confirms the archiving
00:21:15claiming self-defense.
00:21:18Not wanting to hold a trial for Carlo's murder
00:21:22it also meant not ascertaining the truth
00:21:25for what happened in Piazza Limonda.
00:21:34The story ends on March 24, 2011.
00:21:37with the ruling of the European Court
00:21:39which established that everything that the Italian authorities
00:21:43they could have done to ascertain the truth
00:21:45on the death of Carlo Giuliani it had been done.
00:21:52In any case we don't stop
00:21:55not even in the face of this disappointing sentence
00:21:59and we will try in every way
00:22:01to finally have a debate
00:22:05in a courtroom.
00:22:07It doesn't always happen, but it often does.
00:22:09in a courtroom
00:22:11the truth, at least the truth
00:22:13if not justice, it can be affirmed.
00:22:21Mario Placannica in 2005
00:22:23he was discharged from the Carabinieri,
00:22:26from the Carabinieri
00:22:27because he is considered unfit for military life.
00:22:31But even today Mario Placannica
00:22:34he is a confused man
00:22:36which he has not yet been able to overcome
00:22:39that tragic event.
00:22:41But all day Friday
00:22:43it was a whole day
00:22:45crossed by terrible violence
00:22:47and they demonstrate and attest to it
00:22:49the numerous complaints
00:22:51received by the Public Prosecutor's Office
00:22:53both by the protesters against the police
00:22:57that by the police against the protesters.
00:23:04The first trial to open in Genoa
00:23:06after the events of July 2001
00:23:08that's what the protesters are saying
00:23:10accused of devastation and looting.
00:23:13There are 25 of them.
00:23:14The hearings begin on March 2, 2004.
00:23:17144.
00:23:19144 hearings
00:23:20136 witnesses
00:23:22more than 800 hours of footage viewed.
00:23:26The trial concluded on December 14, 2007.
00:23:31There are 24 convictions
00:23:3210 for members
00:23:34to the infamous Black Bloc group
00:23:3714 for members
00:23:39to the varied world of white overalls
00:23:41an acquitted person.
00:23:44October 9, 2009
00:23:46the Court of Appeal
00:23:47pronounces a sentence
00:23:48in which they are greatly tightened
00:23:50the penalties against the Black Bloc
00:23:52until arriving
00:23:53to the most severe punishment
00:23:54of 15 years of imprisonment.
00:23:58The remaining ones
00:24:00belonging to the white overalls
00:24:01they are all acquitted
00:24:03due to the statute of limitations
00:24:05or for acquittal.
00:24:07And the appellate judges?
00:24:08They even recognized
00:24:11and I think that's a fact
00:24:13singular
00:24:13in judicial history
00:24:15of our country
00:24:16they recognized
00:24:17that for a certain moment
00:24:19for abusive behavior
00:24:22and illegal
00:24:22of the police
00:24:24that attack
00:24:25an authorized procession
00:24:26the revolt is justified
00:24:29against this abusive action.
00:24:31The evaluation of this sentence
00:24:33an obvious fact is explicit
00:24:35but which is useful to underline.
00:24:37Even those who wear a uniform
00:24:39is subject
00:24:41and perhaps above all
00:24:42who wears a uniform
00:24:43it is subject to rules
00:24:45and behaviors
00:24:46which often
00:24:47are ignored
00:24:48as they have demonstrated
00:24:49the numerous processes
00:24:51born from violence
00:24:53so-called street
00:24:55at your expense
00:24:56of individual police officers.
00:24:57Us
00:24:58for the sake of brevity
00:24:59we show one
00:25:00not because it is the most serious
00:25:02but why did it happen
00:25:04under everyone's eyes.
00:25:06It's 3:30 PM
00:25:08Friday, July 21st
00:25:09when in Via Barabino
00:25:11a group of young people
00:25:12provoke a platoon
00:25:13of policemen.
00:25:22Suddenly the young people
00:25:23they are loaded
00:25:24and arrested.
00:25:32Images of the beating
00:25:34by Marco Mattana
00:25:35a boy of only 16 years old
00:25:37they go around the world.
00:25:39For these facts
00:25:40six agents
00:25:41including the then deputy chief
00:25:43of the Genoese Digos
00:25:44Perugini
00:25:45filmed while throwing
00:25:46a kick
00:25:47to the young man
00:25:48already bleeding
00:25:49they are postponed
00:25:50to trial.
00:25:55Agent De Rosa
00:25:57one of the six
00:25:58choose the rite
00:25:59abbreviated
00:25:59and is sentenced
00:26:01in the first degree
00:26:01at one year and eight months
00:26:03for injuries
00:26:04acquitted on appeal
00:26:05due to lack of evidence.
00:26:09For the other five agents
00:26:10is celebrated
00:26:11the process
00:26:12with ordinary rite
00:26:13for false
00:26:14illegal arrest
00:26:15violence
00:26:16insults
00:26:16and threats.
00:26:28all agents
00:26:30they are recognized
00:26:31guilty
00:26:32only for the deputy chief
00:26:34of the Digos
00:26:34Perugini
00:26:35the charge falls
00:26:36of injuries
00:26:37because later
00:26:39to compensation
00:26:40Marco Mattana
00:26:41he withdrew
00:26:42the complaint.
00:26:45November 10, 2009
00:26:47the appeal ruling
00:26:48prescribes
00:26:49all crimes
00:26:50except one
00:26:51the fake
00:26:52in public deed.
00:26:54For this crime
00:26:55all defendants
00:26:55they are condemned
00:26:56to a penalty
00:26:57less than two years old
00:26:58so they were able to
00:27:00benefit
00:27:00of the suspension
00:27:01conditional
00:27:02of the penalty.
00:27:05It's Friday night
00:27:06the demonstrations
00:27:07they are finished
00:27:08they are finished
00:27:09and all the boys
00:27:10they retreat
00:27:11but they can't be done
00:27:12to stop
00:27:13the violence
00:27:14that falls
00:27:14on the arrested boys.
00:27:16I only remember
00:27:17my colleague
00:27:18what he told me
00:27:18a sentence
00:27:19which struck me a lot
00:27:21the first ones to take
00:27:22I wouldn't want to be
00:27:24in their position
00:27:27he tells me
00:27:27but for whom is it Vano?
00:27:28you will see them.
00:27:34the first two
00:27:35they were a little boy
00:27:3617 years old
00:27:39I believe
00:27:41and a journalist
00:27:42French.
00:27:46It was an episode
00:27:49in which precisely
00:27:52you can't do it
00:27:53to forget
00:27:54above all
00:27:55who has
00:27:55who has children
00:27:57you can't do it
00:27:58to forget.
00:27:59This little boy arrived
00:28:01to say scared
00:28:03that was an understatement.
00:28:04At that time
00:28:05they make him undress
00:28:06he undresses
00:28:07then the people
00:28:07he tells her
00:28:08do the push-up
00:28:09What is flexion?
00:28:12It's not the flexion
00:28:14like the marines
00:28:15it's a push-up
00:28:16that one
00:28:17with the knees
00:28:18he bends down
00:28:19why should it
00:28:20in theory
00:28:21to do yes
00:28:22that if one
00:28:22he has strange bodies
00:28:24in the rectal bulb
00:28:25they should be expelled.
00:28:26It has never been proven
00:28:28but this would be
00:28:29the intention
00:28:30and it is expected.
00:28:32only that
00:28:33if the boy
00:28:34he didn't know
00:28:34he got down on the ground
00:28:35to do push-ups
00:28:36to the marines
00:28:38to which people
00:28:39get up
00:28:40as soon as he got up
00:28:41he gave him
00:28:41two fists
00:28:42in the kidneys
00:28:46own
00:28:49from the eardrum
00:28:50from the eardrum
00:28:52of an orchestra
00:28:52symphonic.
00:28:55I stayed
00:28:56of ice
00:28:57from that point
00:28:58there
00:28:58everything has changed.
00:29:08Will be
00:29:09he called us
00:29:10Friday evening
00:29:11after what happened
00:29:13in Le Monde Square
00:29:14and then death
00:29:15by Carlo Giuliani
00:29:16saying they wouldn't have
00:29:18more slept
00:29:18at Carlini
00:29:19and then he told us
00:29:21that is precisely
00:29:21Friday evening
00:29:22than to stay calm
00:29:24because he had found
00:29:25to sleep
00:29:26in this school
00:29:26I don't remember if he told me his name
00:29:28but then
00:29:28he wouldn't have said anything
00:29:30Diaz School
00:29:31where he would have slept
00:29:32precisely together with Maddalena
00:29:34and the other thing
00:29:35which certainly has us
00:29:36reassured
00:29:37is that it was the headquarters
00:29:38of the Genoa Social Forum
00:29:40and there they were
00:29:41the media
00:29:42the journalists
00:29:43and also the lawyers
00:29:44Therefore
00:29:44what better place
00:29:46to stay?
00:29:47the Diaz
00:29:48it's a name
00:29:48infamous
00:29:50in history
00:29:50of the G8 in Genoa
00:29:52but before arriving
00:29:53to that incredible one
00:29:54and terrible night
00:29:55must pass
00:29:56still all
00:29:57Saturday day
00:29:58July 21, 2001
00:30:04it's a huge demonstration
00:30:06a peaceful demonstration
00:30:08and I think it is
00:30:09the best answer
00:30:10that we can give
00:30:16after Charles' death
00:30:17the movement
00:30:18gives an example
00:30:19of awareness
00:30:21of self-discipline
00:30:22which has no precedent
00:30:23since the post-war period
00:30:24to date
00:30:24to 2001
00:30:31because if
00:30:32if there had been
00:30:34a reaction
00:30:34like that one
00:30:35of the decades
00:30:35of the 70s
00:30:36for which
00:30:37a mass
00:30:39tens of thousands
00:30:40of people
00:30:40when they know
00:30:41that one of them
00:30:42he was killed
00:30:43they go out
00:30:45Genoa would have become
00:30:46a tragedy
00:30:48in the tragedy
00:30:48we would have counted
00:30:49probably
00:30:49much more than a dead man
00:31:04Saturday
00:31:06and I
00:31:06we followed
00:31:08both television
00:31:09what was passing by
00:31:10both the radio
00:31:11we listen
00:31:11Popular Radio of Milan
00:31:13where there were reporters
00:31:14that they told
00:31:15all long day
00:31:16of Saturday
00:31:17and so anyway
00:31:18the attacks on the procession
00:31:19in Corso Italia
00:31:20on the seafront
00:31:21a few pictures
00:31:22we saw them
00:31:24and at that point
00:31:25we were just waiting
00:31:26that Sara called us
00:31:40the first time
00:31:42Look
00:31:42these are
00:31:43furious steps
00:31:44furious steps
00:31:48There is someone who is sick, help that person.
00:32:00Finally on Saturday evening, around 11, so 11, 11.30, Sara calls us saying that the
00:32:08school to collect his backpack that he had left there
00:32:11and then she would have gone to the station where Matteo and Ivan had met in the meantime.
00:32:16They told me to accompany us for a moment to a press center back here, we have the backpacks, we have to get them a
00:32:23moment.
00:32:24I was so happy, I said I'd be happy to accompany you. We went, but that press center was Iaz's school.
00:32:35And then we never heard anything else.
00:32:37At a certain point, just as I was sleeping, in the middle of my sleep, people arrived, they were the police, the
00:32:44police.
00:32:51We could tell there were police on the other side of the door about to break in, so we ran away.
00:32:57on the floors above.
00:32:58They're coming in with truncheons, people are coming in, they're calling for four.
00:33:06I woke up to noises outside, I heard a commotion, something that shook me from my sleep.
00:33:18They entered aggressively, shouting, and immediately attacked the people who were nearby, who had
00:33:28all hands raised.
00:33:30A sort of chant had begun, non-violence, non-violence in English, no violence, no violence in English.
00:33:36You could hear these thuds, really violent, the screams, heart-rending screams.
00:33:43The first people who were hit in my area were two guys, a couple who were near me, I think they were
00:33:50Germans,
00:33:51and in particular the girl, who was the closest one, was kicked in the face.
00:33:57There we understood that they had come to massacre us.
00:33:59Two officers came towards me, then they aimed at me.
00:34:03An absurd terror.
00:34:06He had begun to strike, I would say wildly, without aiming at anything in particular.
00:34:14They started beating me up until they actually lifted me up and put me down.
00:34:22thrown into the corridor.
00:34:24At that point, a very violent blow to my head came from behind with a truncheon, which is what, I think,
00:34:31opened the head
00:34:31and that's the one that made me faint anyway, or at least definitely made me fall.
00:34:37While I was being beaten I heard a voice that goes, no Yemenis un testa però.
00:34:42I found a perfectly circular scab in the middle of the bruises, which I had examined two weeks after the events.
00:34:50by a dermatologist and it turned out to be an electric shock.
00:34:52They continued kicking and beating me with truncheons and that was when a policeman used pepper spray on me.
00:35:00on the wound in the eye.
00:35:01He practically emptied a pepper spray into my face, right into the wound.
00:35:07The officers then began searching the sleeping bags.
00:35:19I remember them taking out this stuff, these things that were inside the backpacks and every now and then someone would report
00:35:27here, here, I found a black T-shirt, apparently they were looking for black clothes.
00:35:38I had lost sight of Sara, I saw her again later when she was lying on the bed with the collar on, so
00:35:44another terrible moment.
00:35:59Immediately after I was taken to the hospital, to the Galliera hospital.
00:36:07And there was perhaps the most shocking discovery I made that night.
00:36:13I found out I was under arrest because I found myself with two policemen at the head of the bed
00:36:19and I asked what they wanted us to do there and they told me you're under arrest.
00:36:30Passing through the courtyard of the Diaz school I remember very well a group of people in plain clothes,
00:36:38some like the cell phone, with a jacket and tie, some others, who were confabulating, who were talking to themselves.
00:36:48At that moment I remember him telling me what are these people doing, who are they anyway?
00:36:53Then obviously I found out later who the managers were who were later charged in the trial.
00:37:02On April 6, 2005, the trial for the events that occurred inside the Genoa Assiseri court opened.
00:37:09of the Diaz school.
00:37:13The defendants are 29 police officers, including managers and officials.
00:37:18The injured parties were 93, all occupants of the school.
00:37:23The charges range from forgery of a public document to abuse of office to conspiracy to cause serious injury.
00:37:29The trial phase itself in the first instance lasted three years.
00:37:34There were over 200 hearings, if I'm not mistaken, something like 300 witnesses were heard, I think.
00:37:42These 93 boys and girls from Diaz were very brave, especially the foreigners,
00:37:49to return to Italy after what happened to him, in Genoa, in front of a court,
00:37:54but not to testify about a wallet snatching, but against the top brass of the police force.
00:38:01The preliminary question that faced the trial was why the raid on the Diaz school was ordered.
00:38:09and the trial established, one, that not all officials agreed with this raid,
00:38:16but that in the end yes prevailed.
00:38:18And why did yes prevail?
00:38:20Because on that Black Friday when a young man had died and the city had been put to the sword
00:38:26fire,
00:38:27there had been no arrest.
00:38:30The police had thus shown themselves to the eyes of public opinion and the world
00:38:34as incapable of managing the emergency.
00:38:38Thus arose the need to redeem the dignity and image of the entire body.
00:38:45This concept was expressed in the chamber by the then head of public order at the G8,
00:38:52Dr. Ansoino Andreassi.
00:38:55The directive that is beginning to emerge is to mobilize the units considered most efficient,
00:39:07faster, to proceed with arrests, given that the city had been devastated
00:39:18and that in essence the reaction by the police had been quite effective.
00:39:26So in more explicit terms there is a change of direction that takes place on Saturday the 21st.
00:39:34compared to previous days?
00:39:36In what terms?
00:39:37I perceived it as such, that is, I believed that they wanted to move towards a more incisive line.
00:39:49than the one followed up to that point.
00:39:56This belief, continues Doctor Andreassi, is confirmed by his arrival in Genoa
00:40:02The G8 ended on Saturday afternoon with the Prefect Arnaldo Labberbera, who effectively removed him from office.
00:40:10But the trial established something else, and it established that the operation was triggered
00:40:15from an overestimation of an attack received by a police patrol just below
00:40:21Iaz's school.
00:40:23And the operation was officially judged as an operation aimed at identifying those responsible.
00:40:30of that attack.
00:40:33The trial established that around midnight 250 officers arrived in Via Cesare Battisti,
00:40:40including the seventh nucleus composed of 70 agents specially trained for the G8.
00:40:48The violence begins outside the Diaz school.
00:40:51I fought for my life for about half an hour out there.
00:41:03This person is the English journalist Mark Hovel, who is the victim of one of the episodes
00:41:08bloodiest of the entire G8.
00:41:14This person is brutally beaten by an army, literally of policemen,
00:41:25who hit him with truncheons, punches and kicks.
00:41:41This person, so badly injured, is left unconscious in front of Iaz's school.
00:42:00This is an episode for which it has not been possible to ascertain those responsible.
00:42:16But there's more.
00:42:18This person was left lifeless on the ground for approximately 20 minutes,
00:42:23in the complete indifference of those responsible for the operation.
00:42:37This indifference is the emblem of the indifference towards the rights of the people who found themselves
00:42:47at that moment, in that place and in that situation.
00:42:52The police force's objective was legitimate, it was right, it was wrong, it doesn't matter.
00:43:01The police forces, when they have to act for a purpose they believe to be just, are capable of committing these actions.
00:43:11250 agents enter the IAZ, including 70 agents from the seventh unit.
00:43:18Canterini was the commander of the first mobile unit in Rome, within which the
00:43:23the seventh special unit, specifically trained and equipped to come to Genoa.
00:43:29Furnier was the commander of the seventh special unit.
00:43:33They certainly had an executive role, in the sense that they did not participate
00:43:38when planning the operation, they did not decide whether to conduct the search or not.
00:43:43Dr. Furnier also told me, it was simply said, that we were going to search
00:43:49the lair of the black blocs.
00:43:51Michelangelo Furnier's testimony at the trial for the raid on the Iaz school.
00:43:56I had realized that the fights were not fights, but that in reality, if they were fights,
00:44:01they were one-sided.
00:44:02There were 4-5 policemen, I am not able to report this, who were doing
00:44:07what shouldn't have been done.
00:44:08That is, once they were practically inert, they were attacking the wounded.
00:44:15Doctor Furnier and also the members, the team leaders of the seventh nucleus, were
00:44:20the only ones talking about violence.
00:44:23The team leaders of the seventh nucleus even in the service reports they made
00:44:26a week later.
00:44:27They wrote that they had seen excesses and dynamics of a certain type.
00:44:32Furnier is the witness who actually first spoke about the violence that took place inside
00:44:37of Iaz's school and spoke of Mexican butchery, a butchery demonstrated by the balance sheet
00:44:43In this raid, 69 people were injured, 3 of whom were in very serious condition.
00:44:49But all the sentences have established that violence was committed inside that school.
00:44:55against young, inert, peaceful boys and most of them short in sleep.
00:45:02But the road to achieving this result was long and arduous.
00:45:07The reaction of the police force was one of opposition to the investigation, not
00:45:17of mere non-cooperation or passive resistance.
00:45:22In addition to the violence, the police showed themselves capable of falsifying evidence.
00:45:37We found Molotov cocktails, we found knives, we found tools
00:45:43of offense of any kind, we found the black suits that distinguish the black
00:45:48block, I think this is a pretty clear picture of who occupied that school.
00:45:59The Molotov cocktails that were brought as a trophy and displayed to the public
00:46:08as a trophy and the fruit of that search are fabricated, falsified evidence.
00:46:17These same Molotov cocktails had been seized in another area of the city
00:46:22and transported in a blue envelope inside the Diaz school to demonstrate the dangerousness
00:46:28of the occupants.
00:46:38Another piece of evidence fabricated and exposed in the trial is the stabbing of an officer.
00:46:44police reported but never happened.
00:46:47Because one thing is certain, one thing is certain from all the sentences that within the
00:46:54At school, only the intervening officers used violence and force.
00:46:59It is clear that the rule is that the police, the law enforcement agencies must use their force
00:47:06in a reasonable manner and proportionate to the situation.
00:47:10This is the standard of behavior that is imposed on police forces in a State
00:47:16Democratic and also recently in Genoa the highest police authorities have
00:47:23remembered, inviting us to forget the events in Genoa, that on that occasion the police
00:47:31She was attacked and had to defend herself as best she could.
00:47:35The police should not defend themselves as best they can. This is a fundamental principle and it is
00:47:43the exact opposite of what is being broadcast.
00:47:48No one has ever disputed that there was violence, at least on the part of ours.
00:47:53banks and our defenses, that there have been people who have undergone treatment
00:47:58which was not justified even regardless of any acts of resistance that there are
00:48:03states. And this is a fact. It's another thing to say that John Doe, John Doe, and John Doe are responsible.
00:48:11of this violence. When 270 people entered the school and when not
00:48:16We know who committed the violence. If she asks, she should have asked before the trial.
00:48:21to the individual agent who was there besides you, who intervened, who did what, why
00:48:26you were there, he would have had almost no response. And this emerged peacefully
00:48:31from the process.
00:48:35The first-degree trial for the Diaz incident concluded on November 13, 2008.
00:48:4713 are those convicted for crimes ranging from forgery to illegal arrest and injuries
00:48:52serious. For a total of 35 years and 7 months in prison.
00:49:00Full acquittal for the 16 accused members of the top law enforcement agencies.
00:49:07Reserve the 90-day deadline for filing the mutilation.
00:49:12and the hearing is adjourned.
00:49:15Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
00:49:22Shame! Shame!
00:49:29This shit will end sooner or later! It will end! Even those who are sleeping now will wake up!
00:49:43Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
00:50:03Shame!
00:50:05Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
00:50:12Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
00:50:16Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Verg
00:50:35he doesn't even bother to explain what the logical connection would be, he states it in a
00:50:39apodictic, the aim was to beat in order to arrest, because no one knows.
00:50:43The fact that essentially all the participants in the operation were convicted
00:50:50with the exception of one, from the Court of Appeal it seems to me a rather curious circumstance,
00:50:56because it is indicative in my opinion of a sort of creation of a responsibility
00:51:03group, a group responsibility that is absolutely at odds with the personality
00:51:08of the criminal liability that is provided for by our Constitution in the Republic
00:51:12Italian.
00:51:13Another particularly delicate procedure arises from this ETS process, in fact
00:51:18the then Chief of Police Gianni De Gennaro is charged with inducing false information
00:51:25testimony. De Gennaro was acquitted in the first instance and convicted on appeal.
00:51:33like everyone else we are waiting for the Supreme Court ruling, but we continue along the same lines
00:51:38our story, because the violence did not end at the ETS school, in fact
00:51:43The arrested boys are taken to Bolzaneto, to the Bolzaneto barracks and here they resume
00:51:51the violets.
00:51:58At that moment I had, I think, almost no more hope, especially when we then went up
00:52:05right on my cell phone, there I even thought they would make us disappear.
00:52:19At a certain point we arrived at this barracks, which was the one in Bolzaneto and how
00:52:25we went down, they made us stand against the tennis court net and here they scored on us
00:52:33with an X on the face.
00:52:34And I have truly seen not only human rights but even dignity taken away from people.
00:52:42of being human, of being a person.
00:52:45They grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and made me walk through this room, this corridor.
00:52:51Traveled for nothing, for the pleasure of beating, tortured, harassed, offended, vilified.
00:53:01There were some policemen who in some way tended to contain what he was doing.
00:53:07it was to say colleague leave it, it's not that he was saying colleague what are you doing, how dare you
00:53:13to do so.
00:53:15Because, I repeat, it was not the thrashing that, even if unjustified, can also escape notice.
00:53:21The officers who were there, captains, instead of bringing the Genoese focaccia at three o'clock
00:53:27night, why didn't they stop his men?
00:53:31Who saw and laughed.
00:53:32Nobody ever explained this to me.
00:53:34And there at that moment I saw Sara in despair, that is, they are taking us
00:53:38in prison.
00:53:39On Monday morning I had confirmation that Sara is in Vercelli prison, me and my
00:53:44husband we left.
00:53:45Around midnight, we had gone to sleep for a few hours there in Vercelli, they warned us
00:53:52that Sara was about to be released from prison.
00:53:55We have decided not to speak because we are shaken and we retreat into our silence.
00:54:03and then we went out of prison.
00:54:27and we saw Sara with another girl who was going out, she had a plaster on her head, but
00:54:35there was, there was, there was, he was quite well.
00:54:42The testimonies of Marco Poggi and his colleague Ivano Pradissoli are the first confirmation
00:54:48of the violence reported by people inside the Bulsaneto prison.
00:54:53I had a conflict within me and I have to approve certain things, if you don't try them it becomes difficult
00:55:03even explain them.
00:55:06Then suddenly I called her and told her Ivano I can't take it anymore, I have to
00:55:11tell the truth.
00:55:15The trial opens on October 12, 2005.
00:55:18The defendants are 45, 14 belong to the penitentiary police, 12 to the Carabinieri, 14
00:55:26of the State Police, 5 are doctors and paramedics from the prison administration.
00:55:34According to the prosecution, there were episodes of real torture which violated the dignity
00:55:40human and the most basic human rights.
00:55:45As a State, we are in breach of the international conventions that impose on us.
00:55:53to introduce the crime of torture into our legislation.
00:55:59Therefore, since the crime of torture does not exist in our legal system, the prosecution folded.
00:56:05on crimes ranging from abuse of office, to forgery, to threats, to personal injury.
00:56:13After 180 hearings in which numerous witnesses and the injured parties were heard, with their
00:56:19chilling stories, on July 14, 2008 the Court convicted 15 of the 45 defendants, acquitting
00:56:2830.
00:56:32And once again, after two years, the Court of Appeal of Genoa has overturned the
00:56:36first instance sentence, convicting all 44 defendants under civil law.
00:56:41From a criminal standpoint, all the crimes have expired, except for 7 defendants.
00:56:47All the trials we talked about this evening are awaiting the Supreme Court and even if all the crimes
00:56:55or almost all crimes will become statute-barred, the Court of Cassation will be able to give back to the police
00:57:02honor and dignity.
00:57:04But there is one last piece of data that has caused quite a stir and has been a reason for much
00:57:09discussion and debate, the fact that the police did not suspend anyone
00:57:16of the investigated agents.
00:57:17The European Court imposes on States the obligation to suspend the official and the representative
00:57:27of the State when it is subjected to trial, not to a final sentence, when it is subjected
00:57:35on trial and imposes the obligation of removal in case of conviction.
00:57:43Not only were they not removed, but they were kept in contact positions with
00:57:55the judiciary, that is, they carry out judicial police services actively and in Genoa
00:58:03where they committed these crimes.
00:58:06It is precisely on this issue that we have tried more than once to have the aversion and the position
00:58:12of the police, but it was not possible, they did not answer us.
00:58:16And this makes us very sad, because we belong to all those who, while believing that work
00:58:23being a policeman is a hard, risky, necessary job that deserves all respect, however
00:58:30We are equally convinced that transparency and accountability to public opinion
00:58:35of one's work is an indispensable element in maintaining and cultivating a relationship of trust
00:58:42between police and citizens.
00:58:48I must say that I was prevented from regaining the confidence I was looking for, because the police
00:58:56of the State has had behaviors opposite to those that should have been had in front of it
00:59:02to an episode of this kind and to the opportunity that there was to get out of it in a serious, fair manner
00:59:07democratic.
00:59:11This experience completely changed my life.
00:59:20Ten years have passed.
00:59:24Even though the trial verdicts proved us completely right.
00:59:30So despite the reconstruction of those facts documents, the absolute extraneousness to any
00:59:37choice of violence of the movement of the undersigned, despite all this, I at ten years of
00:59:42I can't get back to my job, back to being a doctor.
00:59:48I found all the doors closed.
01:00:01Being close to evil, to the wickedness of man, being detained, knowing that your
01:00:09life can depend in some way on power games, it's something that changes you, it makes you
01:00:15even perhaps losing faith in humanity a little.
01:00:18Before, I was definitely more optimistic, happier, more serene.
01:00:22On the one hand, the happiness of having had the courage to speak, which in my opinion
01:00:26courage is not.
01:00:28I prefer to say the happiness of having been myself, consistent with my ideas.
01:00:35On the other hand, the regret of having done almost nothing to help.
01:00:39The punches that boy took, the noise, that is indelible, it is indelible.
01:00:46The question that I often asked myself and my husband also asked himself was where
01:00:51we made a mistake, but not as Sara's parents, but as Italian citizens too,
01:00:56because this thing shouldn't have happened anyway.
01:01:07I once quoted the poet Iliott, it is up to us to try, the rest is not a statement.
01:01:18We've finished for this evening and I'll say goodbye and see you in September, on Saturday.
01:01:26September 3rd, always at 11.30pm, always on the third network and now I say goodbye and wish you good luck.
01:01:34vacant.
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