The European Court of Human
Rights on Thursday again condemned Italy over police brutality
during the during the Genoa G8 in 2001.
The court said Italy's laws were inadequate to punish torture
committed by the security forces in a ruling related to a night
blitz at the Diaz school, which was being used as a billet for
protesters.
The court also condemned Italy for not having adequately
punished those responsible for what happened in Genoa.
In the night assault on the Diaz school, hundreds of police
attacked about 100 activists and a few journalists, wounding 82
and seriously injuring 61 - three critically and one, British
journalist Mark Covell, left in a coma with rib and spinal
injuries.
Officers planted evidence including two Molotov cocktails and
hammers and knives from a nearby construction site to justify
the raid. Amnesty International called the event "the most
serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country
since the Second World War".
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