G8 summit police to go on trial over mass beatings [View All]

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G8 summit police to go on trial over mass beatings

John Hooper in Rome
Tuesday December 14, 2004

The Guardian

A judge in Genoa yesterday ordered a full trial for 28 officers allegedly involved in a brutal mass beating of demonstrators during the G8 summit three years ago.

Almost 100 people, including five Britons, were injured after police, carabinieri and revenue guards stormed a school in Genoa that was the makeshift headquarters of an umbrella protest group. Sixty two people were taken from the Diaz school to hospital, three of them in coma. Several are still receiving medical and psychiatric treatment.

The raid followed violent clashes between police and demonstrators in which one protester was shot dead and hundreds of police were injured.

Among those indicted were several officers holding senior positions in their respective forces or at the interior ministry. They included Francesco Gratteri, who has been promoted since the Diaz school raid to become the head of the police's anti-terrorist units.
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