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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE
Genoa, do you remember?

Two years after the police beatings, the inquiry in Genoa is going to end.
The inquiry about what happened in Piazza Alimonda will end soon, and public
prosecutors that investigated about the death of Carlo Giuliani will write
their results on Apr 17. The inquiry about beatings happened in Via
Tolemaide is coming to an end as well. The italian police top managers have
lied or were reticent about requests from the Parliament and the Genoa
Public Prosecutor's office, and the records of the inquiries made by the
magistrates show that. But several beatings that happened in the streets
will be dismissed, if it won't be possible to identify the responsibles:
there's lack of videos, photos, testimonies.
The Genoa legal forum made a call for unpublished material that could help
to make clear the events and help the defence of people that might be tried.
Besides the work of the lawyers it's also necessary to put in action all the
information networks so that will be made a people's inquiry to avoid that
the Genoa events will close this way and that there will be another Genoa.
Please contact inchiesta-g8@indymedia.org

In english, general update:
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/257321.php

Multilanguage banner and legal call:
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/176261.php

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PIAZZA ALIMONDA (ALIMONDA SQUARE)
The general of G8 will lead the parachutists in Iraq

On April 17th, the judge will make a decision on the request for archiving
the procedure against Mario Placanica, due to self-defense. Mario
Palcanica is the carabiniere ('carabinieri' is an Italian branch of the
military) that was accused of killing Carlo Giuliani, and the request for
archiving the case was deposited by the public minister Silvio Franz on
December 2nd, 2002, and already postponed on February 18th. Closing the
legal procedure would not only shut down the investigation about the
death of Carlo Giuliani, but also would clean up all the responsibilities
of those who were in charge for security in Piazza Alimonda and
those who organised and brought on the situation from above. Moreover, the
closure of the trial about Piazza Alimonda would most probably become a
precedent for all the other procedures currently open about Genoa.

Meanwhile, 3000 soldiers will be working in Iraq together with the troups
of occupation : the carabinieri of the second mobile brigade will be there
as well (400 including the parachutists of the Tuscania - a battallion of
Italian army), lead by general Leso. General Leso is the Balcan commander
who was decorated by Bush and who was leading the special troups of the
carabinieri during the G8 in Genoa. Leso is also a candidate for leading
the international police in Iraq, responding of his decisions only to the
American governor Jay Garner. The other option is giving him the lead of
the Italian contingent. Was he so good in Genoa, that they decided to send
him to Iraq?

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SCHOOL DIAZ
Police officer Nucera and his jacket

The confrontation about the jacket of police officer Nucera took place on
the 16th of April. Do you remember? Nucera declared that he was stabbed
inside the school Diaz: only one 'fast stroke', he declared. Very soon,
however, the judges suspected that he was lying and that this was another
of the tailored false testimonies: the investigators of the carabinieri
(a part of Italian army) declared that the cuts on the jacket of the
police officer were not compatible with his testimony. He was then
notified that he was being investigated upon for false testimony, so he
used his right not respond to the questions of the judges. Then he decided
to speak and change his testimony: he declared that he was stabbed twice.
It was then requested that the proofs were examined again, and Torre was
chosen to do it (Torre is the same person that came out with the theory of
the killer piece of concrete of Piazza Alimonda). And, surprisingly, the
results of the examinations are compatible with the second version of
Nucera!