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Police framed Genoa activists.

rikki | 01.02.2003 00:12

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting piece on parliamentary inquiry revelations in Italy.

A parliamentary inquiry in Italy has revealed that a senior Genoa police officer, Pietro Troiani, admitted that two Molotov cocktails were planted to justify the raid on the Genoa Social Forum activists camped in a school. Another senior officer admitted to faking the stabbing of a police officer in order to frame protestors.

Three police chiefs have been transferred, and more than 77 officers have been investigated on brutality charges.

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