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>Genoa raid was police 'revenge'
>
> Inquest Assault on HQ denounced as
> authorised butchery
>
> Special report: Globalisation
>
> Rory Carroll in Genoa
> Tuesday July 24, 2001
> The Guardian
>
> The bloodsoaked police raid on the headquarters
> of the Genoa protesters at the weekend
> yesterday prompted the accusation yesterday that
> the state had undermined its legitimacy by
> sanctioning brutality.
>
> Evidence emerged that the assault early on
> Sunday morning, in which 61 people were injured,
> had been a vendetta by police officers seeking
> revenge for the rioting at the G8 summit.
>
> Last night the parliamentary opposition demanded
> a commission of inquiry into the policing of the
> summit and the resignation of the interior minister,
> Claudio Scajola.
>
> In a raucous debate, Mr Scajola and the prime
> minister, Silvio Berlusconi, tried to distance
> themselves from the raid on the headquarters of
> the Genoa Social Forum.
>
> To guffaws of disbelief, they insisted that they did
> not know in advance that 200 police officers
> would attack the forum. More than a dozen of the
> 93 people arrested were carried out on
> stretchers.
>
> "A pack of lies, responded Vittorio Agnoletto, a
> spokesman for the forum. "It was authorised
> butchery."
>
> Political analysts questioned the government's
> claim that the head of the police force, Gianni De
> Gennaro, would have given the order without
> consulting the interior minister.
>
> The forum has called for protests at police
> stations throughout the country today against
> what it called vicious, deceitful tactics.
>
> An anarchist website warned of violent revenge
> for the death of Carlo Giuliani, 23, who was shot
> by police.
>
> A letter bomb exploded in Verona, causing no
> injuries. Another device sent to Genoa's prefect
> was intercepted and defused.
>
> For the duration of the raid Italy had been a state
> without law, said Fausto Bertinotti, leader of the
> Refounded Communists. "In these days things
> have happened which in my life I have never seen
> - never."
>
> An interior ministry source admitted that the raid
> had turned into a revenge attack by police venting
> their frustration after two days of failing to control
> looting and thuggery.
>
> Officially the operation has been called a success.
> The officers who stormed the two schools in
> which the forum had its headquarters found two
> Molotov cocktails, a nail bomb, two
> sledgehammers, a pickaxe and 12 penknives.
>
> The 93 who were arrested may be charged with
> criminal association, possession of explosives,
> resisting arrest and damage to public property.
>
> A forum spokesman said the sledgehammers and
> pickaxe, which were covered in dust, had been
> left by workmen who had not yet finished building
> the school.
>
> The knives were needed to open tins of food, and
> the homemade bombs were probably planted, he
> added.
>
> But yesterday magistrates questioned why the
> carabinieri, the police force which is part of the
> army, had used inexperienced teenage
> conscripts.
>
> The intelligence services allegedly terrified the
> conscripts with warnings that packets of
> HIV-infected blood infected would be thrown.
>
> A cameraman said that protesters, fearing police
> ambushes, begged television crews to escort
> them to the railway station.
>
> But the protesters may have lost the public
> relations battle. An opinion poll by Datamedia
> suggested that most Italians believed the police
> were too tolerant.
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