Italy investigates charges of police brutality at anti-G8 riots in Genoa FOREIGN Edition

THE ITALIAN government launched an investigation yesterday into allegations of police brutality against protesters detained at Genoa during demonstrations against the G8 summit. The investigation is divided into three strands; allegations of police brutality during the protests, the raid on the slee...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Frances kennedy in Rome and Jonathon Harris
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 30.07.2001
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Blair, Norman
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Summary:THE ITALIAN government launched an investigation yesterday into allegations of police brutality against protesters detained at Genoa during demonstrations against the G8 summit. The investigation is divided into three strands; allegations of police brutality during the protests, the raid on the sleeping quarters and offices of the Genoa Social Forum, and alleged abuse carried out in the detention cells at the Bolzaneto police station. Alfonso Sabelli, a senior Prisons Department official in Italy, confirmed that many of those arrested in the raid on the forum's premises were badly beaten. "There was violence. The medical evidence is clear," he said. However, he denied that it was prison police who committed the abuse. "Before they arrived at Bolzaneto the activists had been held for many hours by the police who arrested them" he said.
ISSN:0951-9467