{"article":{"id":8849,"heading":" Police Raid Summit Foes' Headquarters","author":"Associated Press","created":"2001-07-23 23:57:26","modified":"2005-08-15 00:36:44","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:36:44","article":"","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.genoa-g8.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Vittorio Agnoletto, at center, the spokesman of the anti-globalization Genoa Social Forum, walks among scattered personal effects and stains of blood after a police raid inside the activists center in Genoa, Italy, early Sunday, July 22, 2001. Police entered the school, where most of the activists were camping, in search of incriminating material after Friday and Saturday's violence in the streets of Genoa. Dozens were arrested, while ambulances carried away several other injured people after the raid. At left, Italian actor Ricky Tognazzi. 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All those arrested in the raid were charged with possession of firebombs and with criminal association in order to commit vandalism, police said. \r\n\r\nThe others included 40 Germans, 15 Italians, 13 Spaniards, as well as citizens from Britain, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Canada, Sweden, Greece, Lithuania and New Zealand, the police said. \r\n\r\nItalian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said he had not been advised of the raid until after it was over, when he was informed by the interior minister. He said the police move suggested that protest organizers \"might have given cover to these violent people.\" \r\n\r\nPolice seized two sledgehammers, 12 jackknives, one pickax, a few short-bladed knives, several long pieces of jagged wood, two bottles for making firebombs, as well as black woolen hoods, a wig, helmets and about a dozen gas masks, displaying them to reporters at police headquarters. \r\n\r\nSeemingly innocent items were also confiscated, including sunglasses, tissues, rubber gloves like those used by paramedics, maps of the city, bandages, and even a suntan lotion. Cameras and cell phones were also confiscated. \r\n\r\nProtesters said police seized documents, computer files and videotapes of the demonstration, but police denied that. \"Everything that was seized is on the table,\" Sgalla said. \r\n\r\nAlso on display was also a police jacket with a five-inch rip on the chest. Police said one of protesters tried to knife a policeman, but the officer was unhurt because he wore a bulletproof vest. \r\n\r\nProtesters said dozens of them were beaten up by police during the raid, which took place roughly two miles from the ancient palace where President Bush and the leaders of Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada and Russia had been meeting. \r\n\r\nAuthorities were on a heightened state of alert through the early morning hours Sunday. Helicopters circled overhead and police cars raced through the cobbled stone streets in the summit security area, their sirens blaring, and police \u2013 some in gas masks and holding shields \u2013 formed a column in front of the summit site. \r\n\r\nCalm had been restored well before the leaders entered into their third day of meetings. \r\n\r\nA second school which houses medical and legal personnel of the Genoa Social Forum, as well as its media center, was also raided, witnesses said. \r\n\r\n\"They just went bang into the building \u2013 people screamed,\" said eyewitness Caroline Terzaghi, 38, a protest organizer. \"They made people lie on the floor, they beat us up, they were throwing computers around, they were hitting everyone. There was blood everywhere.\" \r\n\r\nOn Sunday morning one school was empty, except for a few demonstrators sleeping on the floor or in sleeping bags. \r\n\r\nA sign outside read: \"Don't clean up the blood,\" which stained the wall and stairs of the three-story school. \r\n\r\nPope John Paul II, speaking from his lakeside summer residence, said Sunday he felt \"pain and sadness for the hostility that erupted\" at the summit. \r\n\r\n\"Violence is not the path to reach a fair solution to the current problems,\" said the pope, who is to meet with Bush on Monday. \r\n\r\nBush was sympathetic to the concerns of peaceful protesters, such as calls for easing the debt burdens of poor nations, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. \r\n\r\nThose protesters, Fleischer said, \"couldn't have a better friend than George W. Bush and the United States. For the anarchists and those who are committed to violence, I don't think anything will appease them.\" \r\n\r\n\u2013\u2013\u2013 \r\n\r\nOn the Net: \r\n\r\nGenoa Social Forum: http:\/\/www.genoa-g8.org \r\n\r\nGenoa summit site: http:\/\/www.genoa-g8.it\/eng\/index.html \r\n\r\n\u00a9 Copyright 2001 The Associated Press \r\n","author":"Associated Press","parent_id":8849,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-07-24 00:02:38","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:24","fileurl":""},{"id":8858,"heading":"lies in the US media","article":"This is the pathetic coverage by the US media....how can we get the real truth out in the national media?\r\n\r\nfrom MSNBC........\r\nemail congressGENOA, Italy, July 22 \u2014  Italian police raided\r\n           the headquarters Sunday of the umbrella\r\n           group behind anti-capitalist riots against\r\n           the Group of Eight summit in Genoa and\r\n           seized computer discs, said activists, who\r\n           said six people were injured in the\r\n           operation.\r\n\r\nfrom CNN.com\r\nGENOA, Italy -- Italian police have\r\n                                  broken into the headquarters of the\r\n                                  anti-capitalist group involved in\r\n                                  protests at the G8 summit in\r\n                                  Genoa, Italy. \r\n\r\n                                  Around 10 activists from Italy, Spain,\r\n                                  France and Britain were detained\r\n                                  during the midnight raid and driven off\r\n                                  in a police van, legal sources told\r\n                                  Reuters. \r\n\r\n                                  European Parliament member Luisa\r\n                                  Morgantini told Reuters a police van\r\n                                  rammed a gate to get into the grounds\r\n                                  of the school where the Genoa Social\r\n                                  Forum (GSF) had set up its\r\n                                  headquarters and living quarters. \r\n\r\n                                  The raid came after riot police\r\n                                  launched canisters of tear gas at about\r\n            2,000 protesters trying to breach a safety perimeter on Saturday afternoon and\r\n            after one man was killed during demonstrations on Friday outside the Group of\r\n            Eight summit. \r\n\r\n            Spokesman for GSF, Vittorio Agnoletto, said\r\n            people in the building were treated roughly\r\n            during the midnight raid and about 20 of them\r\n            needed hospital treatment for minor injuries. \r\n\r\n            A police spokesman said officers seized iron\r\n            bars, baseball bats and bricks that they said had\r\n            been used during the first two days of protests. \r\n\r\n            RAI state television said 50 people were detained\r\n            and 66 people injured. Police spokesman Mario\r\n            Viola did not confirm the number of arrests, but\r\n            said many of those listed as injured had been hurt\r\n            earlier. Protesters said dozens of people were\r\n            arrested and dozens of others beaten up by\r\n            police. \r\n\r\n            \"Police entered this evening with search warrants\r\n            and took computer discs,\" Enzo Lefebe, a\r\n            freelance journalist working for GSF, told\r\n            Reuters. ","author":"Ben Disgusted","parent_id":8849,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-07-24 01:49:22","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:24","fileurl":""}]}