280 arrests, 231 people who recurred to medical care (121 demonstrators,
94 policemen, 16 journalist). These are the numbers given by the Minister
of Internal Affairs Claudio Scajola, to the Italian Parliament, over the
riots that took place in Genova, during the G8 Conference.
Quoting "authoritative American sources" (CNN), the Minister
sustained the so called Black Bloc was formed by 5.000 units. He also
sustained that the violent fringes were protected and supported by other
sectors of the Genoa Social Forum, in a dangerous, subversive strategy,
which would represent a serious thread for Italian democracy.
As an evidence of this statement, the Minister sustained that on Saturday
morning police agents saw and followed a white van, leaving one of the
places, the Tardini Stadium - were the demonstrators were hosted. As
shown by some video footage shot from an helicopter, the van was carrying
and distributing tens of sticks and iron bar to the demonstrators, before
the beginning of the demonstration. The van was followed back to the
stadium, hosting mainly people from the "No Global Network", an
organization rooted in Naples and in the surroundings. Immediately after,
the police entered the stadium arresting 23 people. According to a Roman
community radio, 21 of them have been already released by the
magistrature, being people who were resting in the stadium, because of
the injuries reported after the riots happened the day before. For the
others 2, the arrest has been confirmed being the owners of the
van.
If the No Global Network never entered the Genoa Social Forum, being on
more radical positions, the theory of the subversive strategy was
extended by Scajola to the GSF itself.
In particular the Minister indicated the verbal violence used by the
White Overalls in the days before the summit (with the call to the
violation of the Red Zone), as an indirect responsibility in the riots.
He also said that the most violent disorders that leaded to the murder of
Carlo Giuliani, took place in the demonstration of the White
Overalls.
Finally, the Minister defended the nocturnal raid at the GSF media center
and at the dormitory. He said to not have been informed of it, and
that it was necessary to prevent other disorders, in the following day.
The Minister fully defended the police operate in this circumstance, as
well.
The Government defended the operate of the Minister and said that no
heads of the security forces are going to fall. The opposition (Ulivo and
Rifondazione Comunista) asked the Minister to resign and are working on a
motion of distrust, which will be, with any probability, disapproved. The
opposition also asked the institution of a Parliament Commission that
would make clarity on the facts of Genova.
- The demonstrators are collecting a dossier
On the other side, the GSF has launched a national day of protest in
all the Italian cities against the police violence and to ask the resign
of the Minister of the Internal Affairs. Yesterday two
"spontaneous" demonstration were held in Rome, in front of the
Parliament House (2-3.000 people participated) and in Milan, in front of
the City Council (20,000 people).
In the meantime, hundreds of witness eyes are collecting a dossier and
Amnesty International is conducing an independent enquiry. Other
particulars are revealing the presence of neo-fascist and neo-nazis cells
or groups in the so called "Black Bloc". This is the article
published by La Repubblica of Monday, the 23rd:
>"I COME FROM BIRMINGHAM AND I'M A NAZI.
>THE ITALIAN BROTHERS INVITED ME.
>GENOVA - "I'm here to destroy everything. I don't care about the
G8 or anti-globalization >bullshit. The Italian brothers invited me,
they told me we wouldn't have troubles with the >police, that they
would allow us to do all we wanted". Liam "Doggy" Stevens,
a 26-year->old from Birmingham, is happy. "I'm a Nazi, not an
anarchist". He sits on the ground in >via Casaregis, riots go on
a few metres away. His face is covered by a Union Jack, he >has a
foaming dog on the sweatshirt. "It is the symbol of my group, the
Black Dogs." His >girlfriend calls him: "Doggy, don't talk
to journalists!". He gets up and vanishes in the >tear gas.
This new is confirmed by three journalists, working for the independent
agency Italpress News, who interviewed Stevens while he was branding a
street pole "extracted" from the footpath. Moreover, two kids
referred to the newspaper "Il Manifesto", to have seen a group
of policemen to throw in a bin black shirts, caps and jumpers. Other
witnesses say to have seen in more circumstances a moped, driven by guys
dressed as demonstrators, to go quickly back and forward between groups
of demonstrators and policemen.
The presence of these groups, together with the evidence of
infiltrators leaving a Carabinieri barrack http://www.italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6149&group=webcast
makes concrete the ipothesis that who lighted the fire was not, or not
only, the anarchic Black Block, but a mixture of extreme right groups,
and "deviated" apparatuses of the Italian State, that made
their appearance on the stage of Italian history at least 32 years ago,
when a bomb exterminated 32 people beginning the so called strategy of
tension. The re-edition of this strategy - strongly denied by the
Minister of Internal Affairs - can be suspiciously taken in
consideration, because of different "bomb packs" delivered in
the precedent days of the G8 and in the following ones, in different
cities, such as Genova, Milan and Bologna. The Minister of the Internal
Affairs says that these terrorist attacks - that luckily made no victims
until now, but hurted one Carabiniere - have been claimed by
anarco-insurrectionalists groups. Nevertheless, the suspicions over the
presumed capacity of these groups to hit so many targets, without being
busted remain high.
No one can say at the moment,
what will be the future of this movement and if the civil rights will be
definitively suspended in Italy. The theory of the "subversive
strategy", if not deconstructed, prepares the road to new arrests
and new repression. In this context the informative support coming
from other countries is extremely important, vital. Therefore, i invite
you to make circulate and subscribe the communicate launched by Strano
Network
(www.strano.net),
the dossier on the violation of civil rights by Dyne.org
(http://dyne.org/antig8)
and to send letters of protest to the lists of embassies below asking for
the institution of a Parliament Commission on the facts of Genova.
It's moment to take responsibility.
Much too late to make art,
snafu
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