2001: strumentializziamo not, please! Al Pd, Veltroni: that perpetrators do not dress in uniform more Where were you when we tortured in Bolzaneto?
Roberto Mapelli
I was the first to come to Bolzaneto. And I went better than those who followed me. Genova, Friday, July 20, 2001, around the 14th I was stopped in via Alessi, as the police charged the English piece of Globalise Resistance. I was dropped from Piazza Dante to attack where the coordination of activities on the square (air balloons for an invasion of the red zone and protest in front of the networks). I saw two girls drag badly by a group of cops. I have been in the middle. I got them too.
I have banged in a van with a young Englishman with a fractured nose, open his head and a broken tooth. It was a mask of blood, could not breathe. They took us to police headquarters in an empty room on the ground floor are a dozen, there is a Swiss, a pair of Italians, the British and the two girls, a New Zealander and a German one. The four policemen who take us over - no graduated - let them stay, but want to watch as we fill the barrel. Kicked, slapped, beaten a head several times against the wall, kneeling and then standing, words were each cask.
us out, we go on a patrol car, handcuffed. It makes a Crazy hot. Harrison (English) is getting worse, gasp. The windows are closed, knock at the plexiglass to ask to open or turn on the air conditioning. I will not be answered by a policewoman who had 25 years: "I do not want to hear your mica smells like shit." Remains completely closed. After 10 minutes of ring road and highways are deserted at Bolzaneto. The machine enters the courtyard and is already air in the camps. One with the green uniform, then I'll know that he meant the prison service, the steering wheel on foot chases shouting: "When you get off changing the face of fag shit, communist bastard ...». We go down and we are greeted by a corridor from jail: the uniforms, on the one side, with wooden sticks (not batons, sticks) get up on us, spitting and kicking. I've done the three steps with fear to the core. And I ended up straight in his cell.
was great and as others arrive. A dozen. The girls elsewhere, we felt. One was dragged down the hallway and shouted in French. By locking up a policeman told us: "You killed one of us, but we particularly have killed three." And down insults. We were terrified. The weather was clearly deteriorating. Everyone who came was brought kicking and slapping, dragged on the ground. Screams of those who took and stronger than those who gave. I lined ears.
took me to a room for identification, I find a couple of policemen who seem Digos, in civilian clothes. I say that this is illegal, it's crazy. One tells me to shut up. The other shakes his head. Enter a Gom me back in uniform and on, the identification is done in another building. Fingerprint and hand photo. Nearby is the German girl taken with me. Shocked, she could not answer questions in Italian - of course. He seemed paralyzed. I tell her not to worry that we will come out alive. I get a pugnone on the head, I collapsed. The only female police officer present identification, in a white coat, maybe a technical tells me softly that not far from the barracks is a community center to ask for help, once released.
me back to my cell. He was getting a lot of people. In the corridors menavano. People always made worse. They make us stand up, face the wall. For hours. Every time we sit down, why not make it. Ear alert to rise to his feet. Otherwise I am more blows. I call for the issue, I submit a declaration to be signed: I had no documents and I was stopped to be identified ... I have not suffered any physical abuse during detention. It was preprinted. I have opposed. I respond that it was my right to challenge the statement but I would not be released. I signed up. On
door asking to come back in town, I say: 'Get the first train and go as far as possible, you should. " I went out first. Shortly before 20. Look out New Zealand and Germany. Were without words. Goggled. Crying. They wanted to take the train which had recommended. They gave a little 'crazy. I've convinced and follow me. We walked. We found the immense social center that did not previously know. We learned of Charles. And now after hours and weeks after we learned that those of us has been a lot worse. Inside and out. Nell'idelebile wounded in body and torture.
today. After seven years. After the White Paper, the counter, the processes, I can say that I do not give a damn that the creep that led me, breaking fingers, ripping piercing, which threatened rapes and so on, end up in jail. Not what I want. At least I did. But I want to know, however, because still does his job. Why is "under order".
the men of the Italian state no longer have to work on behalf of the Constitution. It 's the least we can ask what is called the rule of law (if any). The sentences will be, maybe. The offenses may be prescribed, the only certainty. And torture is not a specific crime in our country. For heaven's sake, to ratify the Convention as soon facciomo international law. As the need arises. How well is the Commission of Inquiry aborted in recent years thanks to those who today are shocked.
But after seven years, who was not there. Who has pulled back leaving us alone again. Those who have no voice raised and waited for months if not years to discover that we have lived and now also wants to speak for all, to them, the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, to say the only step possible so they can not commit more harm to the Nazis that we met Bolzaneto, in Police and the streets of Genoa. We have met them. We breathed their breath. They enjoyed a beat and humiliate women and men. Not thought possible. But we lived. You who do not have believed all these years. Now at least ask that these "men of state" can no longer commit abuses in its name, which are considered politically unworthy of the Constitution. And with them, their superiors. Because there were those who knocked. Who ordered. And yet those who turned the other side. It 's so hard to say?
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La Quercia let alone the anti-globalization protesters after the death of Charles. Fassino announced it on live TV at Porta a Porta of Checchino Antonini
seven years after the discovery of the horrors of Bolzaneto by aspiring Prime Minister Veltroni, it's all internal to the logic of "well". Calearo, sponsor of the U.S. base at Dal Molin, "but also" an investigation Bolzaneto, just as an example. Seven years later, it is not easy even recall those hours. Who was not happy to speak more directly involved in the decision to distance themselves from the event Saturday against the ongoing G8 summit in Genoa. The majority of leaders and activists heard about it on live TV, door to door on the evening of July 20, within hours of the murder of Carlo Giuliani.
Piero Fassino announced the withdrawal of the accession decided in an informal consultation with D'Alema and a few others. The oak had not acceded to day issues and to squares of the shares on Friday but the march of 21. Fassino was still secretary of the DS: there was a national co-ordinated by Peter Folena regency after the resignation of newly elected Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni for the first time. In fact, the official announcement said the Folena own, as the coordinator of the office of secretary of the Board of Regents. "In Committee that there was a tough battle in the days before, "confirms Folena tracked by the reporter:" In the afternoon we were in the federation, in Genoa, and there was communicated via television, in a very confused situation. And we had to endure. The mistake of not staying in Genoa by the DS and the CGIL was a tragic mistake, because he found the event and has exposed a lot more. This is the real moral element of injury to myself and the bulk of the management team (Folena had not joined the Correntone, ed.) It was the straw that broke the camel's back and then began my journey together with PRC and the forces now involved in the subject unit. Even
Massimiliano Morettini recalls the proclamation of the tv. Not that the current assessore alle politiche giovanili del Comune di Genova fosse incollato al video: era allora uno dei portavoce del Gsf, il Genoa social forum, per conto dell'Arci ma la notizia gli fu riferita da chi aveva visto la puntata di Vespa. In seguito Morettini avrebbe monitorato la delusione di ampi settori di base del suo partito, i Ds, appunto, disorientati dalla decisione annunciata da Fassino. «I più lontani - ricorda - erano già in viaggio verso Genova».
«Che i ds abbiano deciso di partecipare alla manifestazione contro il G8 è positivo - scriveva poche ore prima sul Manifesto, Rossana Rossanda - in quel corpaccio semiparalizzato l'elettroencefalogramma non è ancora piatto, sono almeno in grado di sentire il clamore che da due mesi got up at Genoa, and together with the struggle of the metalworkers' is the only strong voice of Italian society by the millennium. For a party that was at work and today is no more than sixteen hundred Italian, is a start late, but not obvious. " And later, almost prophetic: "The protest, which neither the DS nor the CGIL called for or suggested, swooping like a hot potato on two bodies badly made and forces them to speed up the choices, breaking the time decided by the apparatus' .
"A win was the wrong perception of that movement - told Liberation, Nuccio Iovene, arcista origin, then the ds and now running with the Left in the Rainbow - by choosing not to participate you chose to be left alone and found the boys and help the provocation that shoot. There were Ascierto Fini, inappropriate admissions, in operating rooms and ended tragically. " Iovene was already in Genoa along with other MPs of the then Correntone, the left ds dissociated himself from the dissociation. The news of Charles' death overtook him while attending one of the thematic squares, the Piazza Dante with Arci Attac and then heard the results of informal consultations at the top of
Bottegone, the historic headquarters of the Communist Party in the Dark because of workshops, which held in the late afternoon of July 20, 2001. "But from the start was strong for Oak logic of suspicion and difficulties with no movement global. There was an internal division between a disturbed and difficult relationship with the movements, with an attitude of contempt or superiority and another part that has historically been the close relationship between domestic policy and action, rather he believed that the standing policy to take your body movements. Precarious equilibrium then broke in the name of securitarian logic of suspicion. " Seven years later, the position taken by the horrors of Bolzaneto Veltroni, Iovene view of the law "but also Veltroni": "Better make that commission of inquiry that even from inside the ds have claimed for two terms."
year after the first anniversary, the Oak Tree, or at least someone in the DS tried to mend the breach with a conference with its Folena and accession to the event. Violante appeared in Piazza Alimonda and grossed a healthy dose of boos but it seemed a recognition of the movement. Five years later he was still Violante to freeze all wondering what it was for a commission of inquiry. He was mild enough, the investigation established by Berlusconi
