Genoa: Italy Condemned by European Parliament Report etc.

Thursday January 16, 2003 18:07

by hydra - slash.autonomedia.org

Genoa Euro Parliament Appeal for Video Footage True Story of Diaz school raid

There is a call for the collection video evidence for the purposes of the trials and investigations around Genoa. A formal announcement form the legal team will be made in the coming days, this appeal is especially aimed at international participoants many of whose footage never found its way into the hands of thos einvolved inthe legal fallout.
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Meanwhile yesterday the annual report of the European Parliament was today passed by a narrow margin. Article 28 of the docyument 'deplores the suspension of human rights during demonstrations and in particular on the occasion of the meeting of the G8 in Genoa".

A further amendment proposed by the PSE stated that "as regards the disturbances in Genoa we will continue to give particular attention to the outcome of the administrative investigations initiated in Italy to determine if on that occasion there was recourse to inhuman or degrading punishments."

The report was pased by a narrow margin: 274 -269 (14 abstentions)

The block which Fine Gael formed part of all voted against it, in Irish terms:
BANOTTI, Mary Elizabeth
DOYLE, Avril
CUSHNAHAN, John Walls
McCARTIN, John Joseph
SCALLON, Dana Rosemary

It would be interesting to know how FF MEPS and other Irish MEPS voted as I recall that Niall Andrews actually gave the Italians a bit of shit after Genoa.
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A translation of the most recent revelatrions concerning the cover-upo of the Diaz school search and destroy operation (involving the planting of molotov cocktails, a faked stabbing the fictitious stoning of police officers as pretext for the raid) can be found here:

Genoa - The true tale of Diaz school raid
by Alessandro Mantovani

http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/08/1844208
This is a cleaned up version of the draft already circulated on indymedia.