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The detained Spaniards in Génova denounce ' physical and psychological torture ' - El Pais, Madrid, 24-Jul-2001

Two of the 17 imprisoned after the demonstrations are freed

PABLO X. DE SANDOVAL | Madrid
Two of the Spaniards detained in the disturbances at Génova, left prison of Alessandria yesterday at noon, where aggression accused had entered to the authority and destructions. They denounce, the same as other detainees, ' an unimaginable treatment in Europe' during the hours that were in police sation. In Génova even detained 15 Spaniards remain, one of them didn't leave the hospital until yesterday. While they were in hands of the police, none of them had been able to speak with their families or with the Spanish Consulate.

Adolfo Sesma, Fito, 30 year-old zaragozano, declared yesterday to this newspaper to have suffered ' you torture physical and psicológicas' during the 12 hours that he was detained in the police sation of Génova, before being transferred to prison together with its friend Luis Alberto Lorente, the Loren. Both had arrived to Génova with a group of Zaragoza to participate in the organized protests with reason of the meeting of the G-8 in this city, and they were stopped in the course of a peaceful demonstration in the afternoon of Friday.

' What we spend the night of Friday should not see it nobody in all their lives', he commented nervous to their exit of the jail. The details that he offered of the treatment received in police sation coincide with those of other Spaniards: ' the molestations and the beatings were constant. We saw each other in a corridor full with policemen. They made us pass of a side for other while they gave us nudges and recoils. To me a policeman recognized me and it took me to the bathroom with other five that milled me to kicks. They ordered me to urinate, but I was so panicky that I was not able to. They hit me until I made something. But the worst thing was when they told us, while they continued beating that two Carabinieri had died. Then it is when you begin to think of what they accuse you. Until today [per yesterday] I have not known that it was lie. It was a true psychological torture to think this whole time that you can be charged with a murder, and that the beatings can go all him far that that can cause.


Isolated

' When they took me to the doctor ', he continued, ' he looked at me for above and he said ' without contusions, at the moment ', and it loosed me a host {y me soltó una hostia}. I heard them say well several times that they were passing it to him. People to my side were urinated upon and vomited of fear, with the rising punishment. I signed a paper without reading it. Loren read it and he found difficult that another beating. In total, 12 hours on foot we pass with the circulation of the hands cut by the plastic ties. Until the following day, in the jail, we didn't eat neither we drank. There we could see the two Galicians that came from Madrid that they were similar of having broken that us. Neither we looked at ourselves to the face. The lawyer told us that it will present the accusation when we are outside of Italy, just in case '.

At the last moment of yesterday, detainees 15 Spaniards remained, all in the prison of Alessandria. Of these, eleven moved to Génova with a group of Zaragoza and two (G. Z. G. and R. A. F.) they went with a group of Germany. The Spanish Consulate declared yesterday that he waited that the two Galicians from Madrid (P. S. C. and C. M. O.) they were liberated ' in question of hours ', since they were stopped on Friday the same as the two of Zaragoza liberated yesterday. None has been able to contact their family or the Spanish Consulate in the last 48 hours. The Italian authorities neither have facilitated information on the positions that are imputed.