The Guardian UK

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'I thought my God, this is it, I'm going to die'

British protesters claim Genoa police took brutal revenge for summit riots

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Italy's strategy of tension

Special report: globalisation

Vittorio Longhi
Friday July 27, 2001
The Guardian

That night, under helicopter searchlights, in front of the special police special units, among the screams of young men and women, we were not in Genoa, nor in Italy, but in another place and another time - it all looked like an attempt to substitute the current order with a police state." That is how a group of criminal and civil lawyers from Milan, who witnessed last weekend's events in Genoa, have reacted to the authorities' actions, accusing them of lawless suspensions of the basic liberties of those demonstrators attacked or arrested in the G8 protests.

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Rightwing thugs employed as Italian police officers were told by superiors they could brutalise with impunity the protesters detained in Genoa, it was claimed yesterday.
Officers seized the opportunity to batter, terrify and humiliate dozens of people after being assured they had the "cover" to do so, according to the Rome daily La Repubblica.

An anonymous police officer confirmed the accounts of torture given by the bruised, shaken protestors released from prison. "Unfortunately, it is all true