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G8, no global all acquitted

The judge has freed from blame the 94 protesters accused of delinquency.
The ultimate charge failed. "We come out of this event with our heads
held high. We can`t say as much for the policemen who participated in
that operation. Some of them were even promoted."

AUGUSTO BOSCHI GENOVA
No further elements which might make emerge the participation of some or
all supects in an association with an objective of accomplishing acts of
devastation and plunder in the days immediately prior to their arrest
were acquired". So the judge of the Genova court Anna Ivaldi has freed
from blame the 93 men and women who were present in the gymnasium of the
school Diaz the night of the raid, of the ultimate accusation that was
given to them: association for delinquency and with the scope of plunder
and devastation, or of taking part in the black bloc. The other
accusations, those of restistance and the posession of weapons and
explosive material had already come to bits, and were archived for the
impossibility of "attributing to the suspects any specific crimes", but
also for the lack of elements of proof and because the explosive devices
- two molotovs confiscated after the blitz and exhibited as if they were
trophies the day after in a press conference - have metaphorically
exploded in the hands of the policemen themselves who had brought them
to the Diaz and then had signed a sequestration report, ending up in the
register of suspects themselves. An episode that the judge does not fail
to record, establishing that the material confiscated at the Diaz (tools
of the adjoining construction yard, clothes, absorbents, cell phones)
"does not constitute in itself an element sufficient to found the
hypothesis of subsistence to the associative crime attributed to a group
of 93 persons, who were of different geographical origin, age and
political associations." And so the chapter of the Diaz story about the
inquiry on the protesters is definitely closed. A closure that is more
then expected, from the moment when the archiviation was requested by
the state attorney Anna Canepa and Andrea Canciani, in whose name the
inquiery on black bloc was executed.
Now, accoding to the Committee Truth and Justice for Genova, it is time
that Silvio Berlusconi and Claudio Scajola, who as a Minister of
Internal Affairs had presented the blitz in triumphant terms, should
excuse themselves. "That blitz was illegitimate, brutal and conducted
carrying out falisifications of all kids - is a comment in a notice from
the Committe - it is one of the darkest pages in the history of our
forces of order in the republican epoch. There is nothing to boast." "We
had to wait for two years, but with the order of absolution from the
last accusation, we come out of it with our heads held high. We can`t
say as much for the policemen who participated in that operation. -
comments Lorenzo Guadagnucci, journalist, member of the Committee for
Truth and Justice for Genova -. Who executed materially all the violence
was saved by having covered the face: agents were masked and it was not
possible to identify any of the beaters. Today the squad leader,
functionaries and executives are under inquiery, 30 persons: they will
probably be processed."
"I am ashamed at the thought that many of them, in spite of the open
inquiery and the upcoming process, have been even promoted and given
tasks that are even more prestigious and delicate." - concludes
Guadagnucci.