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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:21:44 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: AUT: Fw: Italian police brutality


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From: Lysander Zimmerman
To: mob4glob-AT-dojo.tao.ca ; Mac Quebec Group ; London Action Family ; Destroy the IMF ; bus10-AT-yahoogroups.com ; Anarchist Information
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: Fw: Italian police brutality



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From: Karl Adomeit
To: friendlyanarchistsleague-AT-topica.com ; stoptheWTO-AT-topica.com
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Italian police brutality


Dear friends,
Here is a nice example of what is going on right now in Genoas jails by the fascist italian police. Please send this to anyone you know the world must know. Thank you.

Horrible human rights abuses in Genoa jails:

On Monday, July 23rd, a group of media activists were allowed to visit some of the Imprisoned in the jails and prisons in Genova. They could talk about five minutes to some of the imprisoned.

Report from the jail "Vercelli"

The media activists could speak to three women, five minutes each. The women declared that they all have been beaten, when they were arrested and/or in jail/at the police station. The wounds at their heads and in the faces emphazised the reports.
The situation of the men seems to be much more serious. The three women told that they could hear the men being tortured and "punished" throughout the whole night.

Report from another Police station in Genova:

Ecxept for one women all others were sorted in nationalities and put into 2-3 cells. Although it seems that they were treated better than the people in "Vercelli", they have been beaten and kicked when they went to the toillet. The police shouted at them and used bad words. But they (the imprisoned) all told, that it could have been worse. Some were allowed to make phonecalls.

Report from other women arrested on saturday (in jail "Vercelli"):

Some of the women told that they were not beaten, but there were other terrible things happening in there. The police were obviously organized fascist, e.g. they called the imprisoned "fucking jewish gipsys" or they were shouting "hasta la victoria siempre" while showing the Hitlers Greeting. There were Mussolini Pictures on the walls. Teargas was thrown into the cells, so that somebody who stood next to the prisoners was vomiting blood. Some of the women were forced to stand 19 hours with their arms lifted, without getting nothing to drink for the same time. there only was one police officer, that was obviously shocked by himself and brought about 200ml. of water for about nineteen people. One's person's leg was broken and couldn't stand up anymore. she/he was beaten until she managed to stand up somehow leaning to the wall. The people in jail reported that the police women were much worse than the men. They pulled people by their hair and the imprisoned had the. impression they were "total psychopaths"!


Distribute this information, organize solidarity actions worldwide and do whatever.... but do something!!!



  Genoa, a cop tells what happened in the Mobile Operative Group centre of the penitentiary


http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/gottododici/pestaggi/pestaggi.html

Genoa, a cop tells what happened in the Mobile Operative Group centre of the penitentiary

The night of the beatings in Bolzaneto the Gom's (Gruppo Operativo Mobile) lager
"Kicks, punches, insults: constitutional rights were suspended. And kept saying: "relax, we are covered"
(Marco Preve reports)

GENOA - A policeman from the Mobile Group of Bolzaneto, of whom Repubblica knows the name and rank but won't reveal any details for privacy reasons, tells of the G8 "chilean night". "Unfortunately it's all true. Even more. I still have in my nostrills the stench of those hours, that of the feaces of the arrested which weren't allowed to use the toilets. But that night started a week before, when about a hundred of agents came from the Operative Group centre of the penitentiary to Bolzaneto".

It's the first of many hidden details of the dramatic G8's Saturday. Our interviewee confess "there's still so much fascism in the police force, there's the subculture of so many young easily influenced, and those of ours who that night applauded. But it was them, those from the penitentiary GOM that have done the butchering".

And the systematic beatings at the school? "That's ours. There's who says it was a retortion, who instead that the order coming from Rome was precise: to arrest with any means. The raid has been done from the colleagues from the Rome department, the "celerini" from the capitol. And to direct them were the top level of SCO and NOCS (special police/army forces), not the Genoa central. It was pure folly. Both for the victims that for our image, and for risking riots too. That night at the police central there was who sweared because if the news was to reach those 20 thousand about to leave from Brignole station, we'd have risked a riot".

The transformation of Bolzaneto jail into a "lager" starts on Monday, with the arrival of the GOM, special department established in 1997 with an ex general of SISDE (italian secret service) as leader, who was already the author of tough intervention in the Opera jail. Once arrived - dressed with grey-green mimetics, the black multipocket jacket, handcuffs and batons, and the receivers attached to the shoulder - they take control of part of the building, which had been adapted as prison a couple of weeks before the summit for the arrests to be carried at the G8.

The gym had been adapted as first recognition centre. All the arrested are brought here, who's got ID shows them, all are fingerprinted. Next to the gym, on the left, near the tennis camp, there's a small building that was the jail itself. There are two big rooms at the entrance. Here, from Saturday night untill late Sunday morning, resides the vice-director of the genovese DIGOS, with other cops from the office and a few carabinieri.

"What happened in the school and carried on here at Bolzanetto was a suspension of human rights, a void of the Constitution. I tried to talk to colleagues and you know what they answered: we don't have to worry, because we are covered."

That night. "the gate opened costantly - tells the cop - from the police vans those kids came out and got beaten up. They kept them standing against the walls. Once inside they threw them headfirst against the wall. They piss on some of them and beat them up if they didn't sing "faccetta nera" (a fascist hymn). A girl kept puking blood and the GOM stood watching. They threated girls of rape with the batons... there's no point in telling you what I already have read".

And you, the others? "There weren't many of us. The main group was still at Genoa to control the red zone. Anyway some approved, some other intervened instead, like a DC who stopped the beatings saying "this is not your home". And there was who like me pheraps did very little, and now is ashamed". And if the GOM weren't there? "I don't think that butchering would have happened. Our director is tough but he's one of those old-fashioned, who have the cult of honour and knows how to educate his people, whe call him Rommel".

Whatever happended to the democratic policemen? "We are still many - replies the cop - but today we are scared and ashamed".





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----- Original Message -----
From: Lysander Zimmerman
To: mob4glob-AT-dojo.tao.ca ; Mac Quebec Group ; London Action Family ; Destroy the IMF ; bus10-AT-yahoogroups.com ; Anarchist Information
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: Fw: Italian police brutality

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Adomeit
To: friendlyanarchistsleague-AT-topica.com ; stoptheWTO-AT-topica.com
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Italian police brutality

Dear friends,
Here is a nice example of what is going on right now in Genoas jails by the fascist italian police. Please send this to anyone you know the world must know. Thank you.
 

Horrible human rights abuses in Genoa jails:

On Monday, July 23rd, a group of media activists were allowed to visit some of the Imprisoned in the jails and prisons in Genova. They could talk about five minutes to some of the imprisoned.

Report from the jail "Vercelli"

The media activists could speak to three women, five minutes each. The women declared that they all have been beaten, when they were arrested and/or in jail/at the police station. The wounds at their heads and in the faces emphazised the reports.
The situation of the men seems to be much more serious. The three women told that they could hear the men being tortured and "punished" throughout the whole night.

Report from another Police station in Genova:

Ecxept for one women all others were sorted in nationalities and put into 2-3 cells. Although it seems that they were treated better than the people in "Vercelli", they have been beaten and kicked when they went to the toillet. The police shouted at them and used bad words. But they (the imprisoned) all told, that it could have been worse. Some were allowed to make phonecalls.

Report from other women arrested on saturday (in jail "Vercelli"):

Some of the women told that they were not beaten, but there were other terrible things happening in there. The police were obviously organized fascist, e.g. they called the imprisoned "fucking jewish gipsys" or they were shouting "hasta la victoria siempre" while showing the Hitlers Greeting. There were Mussolini Pictures on the walls. Teargas was thrown into the cells, so that somebody who stood next to the prisoners was vomiting blood. Some of the women were forced to stand 19 hours with their arms lifted, without getting nothing to drink for the same time. there only was one police officer, that was obviously shocked by himself and brought about 200ml. of water for about nineteen people. One's person's leg was broken and couldn't stand up anymore. she/he was beaten until she managed to stand up somehow leaning to the wall. The people in jail reported that the police women were much worse than the men. They pulled people by their hair and the imprisoned had the. impression they were "total psychopaths"!


Distribute this information, organize solidarity actions worldwide and do whatever.... but do something!!!

 

Genoa, a cop tells what happened in the Mobile Operative Group centre of the penitentiary

 

http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/gottododici/pestaggi/pestaggi.html

Genoa, a cop tells what happened in the Mobile Operative Group centre of the penitentiary

The night of the beatings in Bolzaneto the Gom's (Gruppo Operativo Mobile) lager
"Kicks, punches, insults: constitutional rights were suspended. And kept saying: "relax, we are covered"
(Marco Preve reports)

GENOA - A policeman from the Mobile Group of Bolzaneto, of whom Repubblica knows the name and rank but won't reveal any details for privacy reasons, tells of the G8 "chilean night". "Unfortunately it's all true. Even more. I still have in my nostrills the stench of those hours, that of the feaces of the arrested which weren't allowed to use the toilets. But that night started a week before, when about a hundred of agents came from the Operative Group centre of the penitentiary to Bolzaneto".

It's the first of many hidden details of the dramatic G8's Saturday. Our interviewee confess "there's still so much fascism in the police force, there's the subculture of so many young easily influenced, and those of ours who that night applauded. But it was them, those from the penitentiary GOM that have done the butchering".

And the systematic beatings at the school? "That's ours. There's who says it was a retortion, who instead that the order coming from Rome was precise: to arrest with any means. The raid has been done from the colleagues from the Rome department, the "celerini" from the capitol. And to direct them were the top level of SCO and NOCS (special police/army forces), not the Genoa central. It was pure folly. Both for the victims that for our image, and for risking riots too. That night at the police central there was who sweared because if the news was to reach those 20 thousand about to leave from Brignole station, we'd have risked a riot".

The transformation of Bolzaneto jail into a "lager" starts on Monday, with the arrival of the GOM, special department established in 1997 with an ex general of SISDE (italian secret service) as leader, who was already the author of tough intervention in the Opera jail. Once arrived - dressed with grey-green mimetics, the black multipocket jacket, handcuffs and batons, and the receivers attached to the shoulder - they take control of part of the building, which had been adapted as prison a couple of weeks before the summit for the arrests to be carried at the G8.

The gym had been adapted as first recognition centre. All the arrested are brought here, who's got ID shows them, all are fingerprinted. Next to the gym, on the left, near the tennis camp, there's a small building that was the jail itself. There are two big rooms at the entrance. Here, from Saturday night untill late Sunday morning, resides the vice-director of the genovese DIGOS, with other cops from the office and a few carabinieri.

"What happened in the school and carried on here at Bolzanetto was a suspension of human rights, a void of the Constitution. I tried to talk to colleagues and you know what they answered: we don't have to worry, because we are covered."

That night. "the gate opened costantly - tells the cop - from the police vans those kids came out and got beaten up. They kept them standing against the walls. Once inside they threw them headfirst against the wall. They piss on some of them and beat them up if they didn't sing "faccetta nera" (a fascist hymn). A girl kept puking blood and the GOM stood watching. They threated girls of rape with the batons... there's no point in telling you what I already have read".

And you, the others? "There weren't many of us. The main group was still at Genoa to control the red zone. Anyway some approved, some other intervened instead, like a DC who stopped the beatings saying "this is not your home". And there was who like me pheraps did very little, and now is ashamed". And if the GOM weren't there? "I don't think that butchering would have happened. Our director is tough but he's one of those old-fashioned, who have the cult of honour and knows how to educate his people, whe call him Rommel".

Whatever happended to the democratic policemen? "We are still many - replies the cop - but today we are scared and ashamed".



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