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Carlo Giuliani, a 23-year-old Italian
activist, poet and anarchist, was killed
during the demonstrations against the Group
of Eight summit that was held in Genoa from
July 19 to July 21, 2001.
He was killed on July 20, during a clash
between demonstrators and Italian Carabinieri
(military police). The police were in a jeep
and were engaged in a conflict with
protesters; police were lobbing tear gas
while demonstrators were throwing stones.
Carlo Giuliani was holding a fire
extinguisher and some photos[1] suggest that
he intended to throw it at the police
jeep.Carlo was told(at gunpoint) to put the
extinguisher down, which he began to do and
was shot in the face, and the rear wheel of
the police jeep then ran over his body twice.
All charges against the police officer who
allegedly shot him (Mario Placanica) have
been dropped, the commission of inquiry
concluding that the fatal bullet that struck
Giuliani was deflected by a stone in mid-air.
This conclusion was the subject of strong
criticism, as was the decision not to charge
the driver of the jeep on the basis that
Giulani was already dead when ran over;
medics tending to Giulani after he was run
over testified that his heart was still
beating[2]. Had it been concluded that
Placanica shot Giuliani in self-defense, a
trial would have been necessary, but the
conclusion that the bullet was not fired
directly at Giuliani removed the need for any
trial.
A number of questions about Giuliani's death
remain unanswered, particularly after
Placanica told the media in 2003 that "I've
been used to cover up the responsibility of
others." After making this statement,
Placanica was involved in a "suspicious" car
accident, days after allegedly observing
someone tampering with his car[3]. Placanica
was also allegedly kept in seclusion
following the incident, and his parents were
not allowed to visit him in the hospital[4].
The plaza where he was shot, Piazza Alimonda,
was unofficially renamed "Piazza Carlo
Giuliani" by activists, who erected a
memorial there for mementos, photographs,
writings and flowers. This memorial has since
been burned twice by unknown vandals. Another
plaza, in Bern, Switzerland, has also been
named "Carlo-Giuliani Platz" in memoriam; the
renaming took place during a memorial art
exhibition called The Geometries of Memory.
Although countless people, demonstrators
included, have been killed and continue to be
killed by police around the world, Carlo
Giuliani is often held up as a martyr for
what is commonly called the
Anti-Globalization Movement.
This is a video that accompanied Punk
Organisation CONFLICT's single Carlo
Giuliani, deciated to his memory and his
cause.
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