She slid down the wall and they hit her more on the ground: "They seemed to be enjoying themselves and, when I cried out in pain, it seemed to give them even more pleasure. They also displayed two Molotov cocktails which, Zucca later concluded, had been found by police earlier in the day in another part of the city and planted in the Diaz Pertini building as the raid ended.This public dishonesty was part of a wider effort to cover up what had happened.
"Fifty-two days after the attack on the Diaz school, 19 men used planes full of passengers as flying bombs and shifted the bedrock of assumptions on which western democracies had based their business. Topics discussed at the meeting included an evaluation of the The summit was overshadowed by riots in the city after a crackdown by police targeting Before the summit, significant controversies and ridicule among local people and media focused on the security plans (such as fences going through streets and inside houses) and image provisions (such as the prohibition to dry up the Demonstrators accused the police of brutality and denying them their right to non-violent protest. Pastore argues that that misses the bigger point: "It is not just a matter of a few drunken fascists. "Police officers found a fire extinguisher and squirted its foam into Martensen's wounds. Anywhere. The simple answer may be the one which was soon being chanted outside the school building by sympathetic demonstrators who chose a word which they knew the police would understand: "Bastardi! The G8 summits during the 21st-century have inspired widespread debates, protests and demonstrations; and the two-or three-day event becomes more than the sum of its parts, elevating the participants, the issues and the venue as focal points for activist pressure.The G8 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:Traditionally, the host country of the G8 summit sets the agenda for negotiations, which take place primarily amongst multi-national The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. By midnight on July 21 2001, those police officers were swarming through all four floors of the Diaz Pertini building, dispensing their special kind of discipline to its occupants, reducing the makeshift dormitories to what one officer later described as "a Mexican butcher's shop". Its front page the next day ran an entirely false report describing him as having helped mastermind the riots. While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do. He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.Others were slower. "None of those who stayed on the ground floor escaped injury. Even as the bloody bodies were being carried out of the Diaz Pertini building on stretchers, police were telling reporters that the ambulances lined up in the street were nothing to do with the raid, and/or that the very obviously fresh injuries were old, and that the building had been full of violent extremists who had attacked officers.The next day, senior officers held a press conference at which they announced that everybody in the building would be charged with aggressive resistance to arrest and conspiracy to cause destruction. He was hauled out, beaten, given a face full of pepper spray, stripped naked and put under a cold shower. Repeatedly, they ordered prisoners to say "Viva il duce." The school had been provided by the Genoa city council as a base for demonstrators who had nothing to do with the anarchists: they had even posted guards to make sure that none of them came in.One of the first to see the riot squad bursting in was Michael Gieser, a 35-year-old Belgian economist, who subsequently described how he had just changed into his pyjamas and was queuing for the bathroom with his toothbrush in his hand when the raid began.
Gieser believes in the power of dialogue and, at first, he walked towards them saying, "We need to talk." At its heart, this involved what Zucca described in his report as "a situation in which every rule of law appears to have been suspended. And it worked.