[Nettime-bold] genoa: protester killed by paramilitary police

[sebastian@rolux.org]

Protester Killed in Anti-G8 Rioting

July 20, 2001 12:43 PM ET

GENOA (Reuters) - A protester died after being shot in the head on Friday by an
Italian paramilitary trooper while a big power summit was under way in Genoa,
witnesses and authorities said.

A Reuters photographer saw a group of anti-globalization demonstrators attack a
Carabinieri van with stones. A protester was hit by two gunshots from the van
after throwing a fire extinguisher at the vehicle.

The demonstrator fell to the ground and then was run over by a Carabinieri jeep
that backed over him, the photographer said.

The man, dressed in a white tee shirt, blue jeans and a black balaclava, lay in
the street, blood pouring from his head.

A police spokesman in Genoa confirmed that the unidentified man had died but did
not provide any details.

A medic who had been following thousands of protesters rampaging through Genoa
during the day said the demonstrator was shot twice in Piazza Alimonda, about
1.2 miles from the Renaissance palace where Group of Eight leaders were meeting.

"He was hit twice, once in the forehead and once on the left cheek," Valeria
Valerio, a medic with the anti-globalization Genoa Social Forum, told Reuters.

"He had blood pouring from his mouth."

The body lay in the square, a white sheet over it and surrounded by police.

[...]

source: http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=127633

photo: http://reuters.com/photo_presentation.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=127633

more info: http://italy.indymedia.org


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