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| Group: Genoa Bombings Revenge G-8 Death |
| 2002-12-10 |
| A previously unknown group claimed responsibility Tuesday for bombings at a Genoa police station the day before, saying they were a response to the death of a protester during riots last year. The group, calling itself ``July 20th,'' sent several letters to police and local newspapers detailing the contents of the explosives used in the blasts. Italian news agencies quoted Genoa's police chief, Oscar Fioriolli, as saying the claim appeared credible. The group's name refers to the day last year when protester Carlo Giuliani was killed during riots at the Group of Eight summit in Genoa. Giuliani was shot as he rushed toward a police vehicle, apparently about to hurl a fire extinguisher at police. Violation of Rule #1: Don't throw stuff at armed men. The letter said the bombings were a reaction Giuliani's death and ``the torture and systematic violence perpetuated in the streets and police barracks in a vain attempt to repress the people's response against the G-8 summit.'' About 100,000 protesters descended on the port city in northern Italy during the summit to champion a variety of causes, from debt relief to the environment. A small group of them turned violent. Copies of the letter were sent from mailboxes close to Genoa's main Brignole station, said Antonio Di Rosa, the editor-in-chief of local daily Il Secolo XIX, which received one of the letters. The letter also threatened a policeman who allegedly shot Giuliani. It said Mario Placanica should leave the country so his relatives don't have to ``recognize his remains in a morgue.'' Last week, prosecutors said the charges against Placanica should be thrown out because he shot at Giuliani in self-defense. "We're trying to save the planet and we don't care who we have to kill to do it!" |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 The shots fired by Placanica were obviously in self-defense. Placanica was in the back of a police jeep, together with a seriously wounded colleague (the jeep was actually there to pick up the wounded man). Placanica himself was poisoned by tear gas. While maneuvring to evacuate the small square, the jeep got cornered by Giuliani and his unwashed ilk. Note that the other police officers, who were supposed to cover the retreat of the vehicle, abandonned their position, thus leaving the three men in the jeep to their fate. The pictures of Giuliani hurling the fire extinguisher at Placanica and his wounded colleague at the back of the jeep are well-known. But at the meantime, Giuliani's friends were smashing a wooden or metal beam through the right-hand side window of the vehicle in an attempt to crush the driver. So Placanica had every reason to believe that those punks were going to kill all three of them, and so he shot. What did these leftist idiots expect ? That a police officer gladly accepts to gift of a fire extinguisher, to protect himself against the molotov cocktail that might be thrown in the jeep afterwards ? |
| Posted by: Peter 2002-12-11 07:42:00 |
| #2 I think it is time for Webster's to come up with a new definition of martyr. ie. one dead dumbass! |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-10 14:25:01 |
| #1 From a National Review story on Carlo... The Italian media have reported that Mr. Giuliani was a beggar with a criminal record, but that day he was a masked anarchist about to hurl a fire extinguisher at the head of a cop. Two days after his death the anti-globalization protesters proclaimed him a martyr to their cause, "a model of compassion and commitment." |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-10 13:30:39 |