GENOA - Today, the Genoa Prosecutor sent to 73 people notices that
investigations against them been closed. The investigations in question were
all part of a two-year inquiry into the events that took place in the Diaz
and Pascoli schools and in the Bolzaneto police barracks
during the G8 summit. From the Diaz and Pascoli schools, 30 people have
charges against them; the defendants are police, penitentiary personnel, and
medical staff.

According to the group of judges (Cardona Albini, Miniati, Patenti,
Petruziello, Pinto and Zucca), among the 30 accused there are the most
important chiefs of police (of the SCO, UCIGOS, and Mobile Units) who are
accused of slander, false arrest, assault and battery, and abuse of
authority. Those accused are those who took part in two closed meetings the
night of Saturday, July 21, who were involved in the raids,
and in the fabrication of evidence -- two molotovs that thad been brought
from corso Italia into the school, and in an episode that -- according to
the prosecutor -- involved cutting the jacket of agent Massimo Nucera (who
is among the accused) to fabricate evidence of a stabbing. Among
those accused are the directors who, according to the judges' reconstruction
of events, organized and took part in the Diaz School operation that ended
with almost all of the 93 activists inside the school being injured.

Among those who received notice that the investigations against them had
been closed, was Vincenzo Canterini, who was responsible for the first
section of the Mobile Police Unit of Rome and for the seventh anti-riot unit
created specifically for the G8, his second-in-command Michelangelo
Fournier who was the squadron chief; Francesco Gratteri, then director of
the SCO (Central Operations Service) and his second-in-command Gilberto
Caldarozzi; Gianni Luperi who was then second-in-command to Arnaldo La
Barbera, chief of the UCIGOS; Spartaco Mortola, ex-chief of the Genoa
DIGOS; Pietro Troiani of the Rome Mobile Unit and his driver Michele Burgo;
Massimilano Di Barnardini, Lorenzo Mugolo, and other direct subordinates to
the assistant chief of police Andreassi (who was not given notice that any
investigation against him had been closed); the director of the Mobile Unit
of La Spezia Filippo Ferri; and the commissionar Fabo Ciccimara of the
Naples Mobile Unit. For the raid on the Pascoli School, three police
directors stand accused, among them the chief of the Mobile Unit of Nuoro,
Salvatore Gava.

On the cover of their statement, the judges chose to put the photo of one of
the 93 Diaz-School arrestees, Lena Zuhlke, a German woman who left the
school on a stretcher. In ten pages, the group of judges draw information
from two years of investigation and 42 interrogatory interviews, many of
them repeated, and testimonies, including testimonies
drawn from the interrogations of the 93 demonstrators, who at the moment
still stand accused of criminal association (the charge of resistance was
dropped at the end of May).

For Bolzaneto, headquarters of the sixth Genoa Mobile Unit, which became the
registration center for those arrested during the G8, seventy more notices
were sent, announcing the end of the preliminary investigation phase. Today,
43 people received notice that investigations against them
were closed, including the directors of the intermediary staff of the police
and the penitentiary personnel, as well as the medical personnel. The
charges are of abuse, infliction of injuries and wounds, verbal abuse,
omission of official facts and omission of reports. Among
others, Alessandro Perugini, then assistant chief of the Genoa DIGOS, and a
large part of the medical personnel, including doctors Giacomo Toccadondi
and Amoaldo Amenta. As of oday, the accused have 20 days to request that
they be interrogated again. Then they could be truly sent to trial.

Addition-
A film of the raid can be obtained from Undercurrents.org. Our film, Globalisation and the media, is an award winning documentary about the brutal raid and the work of Indymedia and others.