Do you remember genova?

[Ubik]

There won't be any trial for Mario Placanica, the policeman who shot dead Carlo Giuliani, the young protestor killed in Genova during g8 2001.The tribunal of Genova said the proceeding is closed and the cop innocent.



In the afternoon of May , 5 the gip Elena Daloisio decided: the enquire against Mario Placanica, the policeman of the
paramiltary italian police (Carabinieri) who shot in the head Carlo Giuliani,the young protestor at G8 in 2001,is closed.
the reson why this murder won't be prosecuted is not only that the cop was defending himself (motivation that was abdued
also before by the accusatory lawyer mr.Silvio Franz) , but also because in the 53th article of the italian criminal code is theorized
a legitimate use of weapons.This may constitue a possible and dangerous legal escape for other similar situations in the future,
covering by legal consequences every murder a policeman could commit because of him being "on duty".
Anyway for this decision there won't be any trial against the shooter,Mario Placanica, who is going to be completely aquitted.
Is shocking to understand the basis for this decison , constitued by the experts' reports on the situation in which the
murder took place.Daloisio says there's no reason why these reports should not be considered as reliable and based on
reliable methodologies.But does Daloisio have any element on the past life of these experts? "We can't have any doubt on the
the thoroughness of this enquiry" she insists.The hipotesis that has been abdued in the experts reports is that the the bullet
was deviated by a rock in its trajectory, and that the policeman didn't shoot toward the protestor but toward the sky just
to frighten him.Also the other cop, Filippo Cavataio, who was conducing the jeep assaulted by the protestors, has been
aquitted.He was accused of repeatdly passing with the vehicle over the shot body of the protestor, but Elena Daloisio
thinks this just caused light wounds to the protestor.Here we have to remember that the autopsy on which she is basing
on has been considered as "too superficial" also by the accusatory side.The tribunal of Genoa speaks out about all these
facts showing off that the decisions are taken without having any doubt, while is quite easy to see how many contradictions
and shadowes have not been considered in conducing this enquiry.
"Placanica will go on working as a good policeman" is the comment of his lawyer, happy for the decision, and after all, none
of the high officers of police forces who were involved in this enquiry has been judged guilty or condemned, even if it has been
evident that many lies they said about the events of Piazza Alimonda (the Genoa square in which the protestor died) when not
trying to avoid to give a testimony.Even if all this is clear , some of those high officiers will be sent in Iraq, an no one blamed
or tried to act legally against their evident lacks of professionality and ethics (to use soft terms) about the g8.
The closing of this enquiry not only leaves a murder without any responsible,but also tries to hide and delete all the
responsibilities both of the people who directed the operations in piazza Alimonda ,and of those in the highest vertexes of police
and government who where in Genoa.The worst risk is that this decision will have reflections in all the other proceedings about the events
of Genoa.We hope that this indecent legal proceeding won't put the word end on these events,because we want the truth and we will work
and rise up our heads and fight until the truth will come out.No justice no peace.

[MUX]

i remeber the media saying that he was gonna throw a Fire extinguisher at them eh Ubik? it that true?

[Ubik]

Is not true, i was in genoa and police shoot many times....
have a look:

[MUX]

They drove over him!!! shit man.... never seen that part

but i think im right ubik, there is a fire extinguisher in all the pictures, and the dead guy is certainly the one picing it up in the first pic, not the one attacking the van

[Ubik]

1) In the first photo you can see the policeman with the guns while carlo is picking up a fire extinguisher
2) If you shoot for self defence you will fire on arms or legs not in the middle of the head!

[MUX]

Originally posted by Ubik

2) If you shoot for self defence you will fire on arms or legs not in the middle of the head!

that is for sure.. i agree with you 100% on that & i think yr right they are already pointing a gun at him thru the back window in the first photo..

gli ufficiali di polizia sono maiali

[Ubik]

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[invisibleplanet]

I would pick up some thing to use as a weapon also, if i were surrounded by officials with murderous intent.

is there something about Italy which creates such passionate political situations? I remember seeing Bertholt Brecht's Accidental Death of an Anarchist when I was 18, and that was the moment the scales fell from my childish eyes, and i began to see 'The State' in a new light....as some kind of 'legal' mafia