Not to forget: the protests at the G8 in Genoa twenty years ago
Exactly two decades have passed since the infamous days of protest during the 2001 G8 in Genoa: for 72 consecutive hours in our country there was a total suspension of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens. Thousands of people ended up in hospital, and it took many years to learn the truth.
I wonder where all those guys who then maybe militated in the PD have ended up, who risked leaving their skin to demonstrate against globalization and economic financialization, and who are now forced to hear the blasphemies of Enrico Letta, the ready heurist hoplite to sacrifice himself on the Maastricht altar.
I certainly do not want to dwell on the – albeit serious but subordinate – responsibilities of the police, but rather I would like to give an account of the situation. Although it was ascertained in the courts that it was actually a Mexican butchery, it was not possible to do justice due to the lack of collaboration of the police offices and the impossibility of identifying the unfaithful agents who operated in the squares during the G8 in Genoa. Only a few simple agents and three police officers were sentenced, the rest went to the cavalry for prescriptions and bureaucratic slung.
Demonstrations at the G8 in Genoa in 2001
And if on the one hand it would not be fair to liquidate the affair by attributing the blame for the atrocious crimes to simple agents, on the other hand it would be necessary to understand whether this bloody repression was the result of premeditation on the part of institutional leaders.
In fact, it would seem that things were actually like this: the infiltrations by the Black Blocks (guerrillas specially trained by the secret services to create the pretext of the clashes), the phony security plans, the encirclement of the pacifists, are some of the points that Franco Fracassi explores. to explain the modus operandi of the Government, bent to the diktats of the transnational liberal oligarchies.
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