2009-03-30
Statewatch Analysis
Italy: Making sense of the Genoa G8 trials and aftermath by Yasha Maccanico examines the trials of the protestors and the police and their outcomes:
Download at http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-77-genoa-aftermath.pdf
This analysis seeks to identify some of the key points for understanding the outcome of the trials involving demonstrators and police officers in relation to events during the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001, and to investigate the implications for public order policing and the right to demonstrate.
See also: Statewatch’s Statewatch’s Observatory on reactions to protests in the EU (from 2001 – ongoing) at http://www.statewatch.org/observatory3.htm