On Monday September 15 prosecutors sent notices to 73 police informing
them that investigations against them had been closed. The investigations were
part of a two-year inquiry into the events that took place in the Diaz and
Pascoli schools and in the Bolzaneto police barracks during the G8 summit. The Diaz raid ended
with almost all of the 93 activists inside the school being injured. 30 police
from the Diaz and Pascoli school operations have been charged, the other 43
charges relate to Bolzaneto barracks. [One account of the Diaz Raid]
Included in the 30 accused are the most important chiefs of police who are charged
with slander, false arrest, assault and battery, and abuse of authority. The
charges also relate to the fabrication of evidence such as two molotov
cocktails that had been brought from corso Italia into the school, and the
cutting of the jacket of agent Massimo Nucera in order to fabricate evidence of a stabbing.
For Bolzaneto which became the registration center for those arrested during the
G8, seventy more notices were
sent. 43 people received charges including the directors of penitentiary
personnel, as well as the medical personnel. The charges are of
abuse, infliction of injuries and wounds, verbal abuse, omission of official
facts and omission of reports.
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