According to an initial report on linksunten.indymedia, on July 13th, 2012, the first senate of the Supreme Court of Cassation (the highest court in the Italian judicial system) partially confirmed the harsh verdict against the ten accused activists.
Prosecuted for the street battles against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001, two people have now been sentenced to serve up to 15 years in prison. Three have received reduction in their multi-year prison sentences of nine months up to one year, while five can once again appeal their convictions —as far as the rest are concerned, the judgment can no longer be contested in any court. Therefore, five people will be locked in prison and five others face a retrial.
All protesters were tried and convicted for the same offense, namely ‘plunder and devastation’ (seemingly graver than the ‘crime’ of disturbing the peace), so in reality the judiciary enforced the so-called Codice Rocco, a paragraph dating back to the era of fascism.
We would appreciate it if you could provide firsthand counter-information.
Read also:
– Rome, Italy: Final sentences by the Supreme Court of Cassation for police forces involved in Diaz school butchery at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa
– Athens, Greece: Text by the Anarchist collective ‘Circle of Fire’ in solidarity with the 10 prosecuted strugglers of Genoa
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Verdicts in for the Genoa 10:
http://italycalling.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/verdicts-in-for-the-genoa-10-guilty
According to this source, the highest prison sentence is 14 years (practically, 15 years that were turned into 14 years with a reduction of 1 year).
It is also reported that one of the five who received imprisonment has already been locked up in a prison in Rome.
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Sentences of the trials against activists for Genoa G8:
http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Genova_2001/G8_2001_english
According to this source:
In the next days it is said that 5 people will go to jail: Ines 6 years and 6 months / Alberto 10 years / Marina 12 years and 3 months (reduction -9 months) / Vincenzo 13 years (reduction -9 months) / Francesco 14 years (reduction -12 months)
For others 5 the court ruled that they are able to appeal against parts of the sentence from the second instance: Dario (7 years) / Carlo (8 years) / Carlo (8 years) / Antonino (8 years) / Luca (10 years and 9 months, reduction -12 months)
Two untraceable:
http://www.contropiano.org/en/news-politica/item/10275-genova-2001-non-%C3%A8-indispensabile-accettare-la-condanna-due-irreperibili
According to this source, Francesco and Vincenzo (two of the ‘definitely’ condemned to 13 and 15 years’ imprisonment, respectively, as mentioned here) have made themselves unavailable to authorities at the moment —yesterday (15/7) the public prosecutor’s office of Genoa issued detention orders against both of them.
We just published an article about it:
http://strugglesinitaly.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/en-genova-2001-11-years-later-a-bitter-sentence/
many activists are discussing the issue, we hope to report their voice as well.
ps: i can assure you that you can trust italycalling :)
ciao
Thank you for re-posting my articles and translating this info. Please check out my latest article for addresses to write to Alberto and Marina in prison. The two untraceable ones are still untraceable as of today…http://italycalling.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/genoa-2001-two-of-the-activists-sentenced-last-week-are-untraceable/
Many thanks!! Please keep us posted!
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