Night of beatings
Bolzaneto in the camp of Gom
" kicks, punches, insults, rights costituzionalierano suspended. They said, quietly, we're covered"
MARCO PREVE
GENOA - A police officer serving in the Department of Bolzaneto Mobile, and of which Republic knows the names and ranks, but that does not reveal for reasons of confidentiality, says the "Chilean night" of the G8. "Unfortunately it's all true. Even more. I still have the smell in the nose of those hours, one of those arrested to which I was not allowed to go to the bathroom. But that night began a week earlier. When we are here to Bolzaneto arrived a hundred officers of the Group's mobile operating the prison. "
It 's the first of an unknown background of many of the dramatic Saturday of the G8. Our interviewee admitted that "there is still much in the police fascism, there is a subculture of many young people are easily influenced, and those of us who applauded that night. But the slaughter they did the others, those of the Gom prison. "
And the systematic beatings at school? "That's our stuff. Some say it was a retaliation, but those who had arrived from Rome that a particular order: to make arrests at any cost. The intervention did so colleagues Mobile Unit of Rome, the cops of the capital. And to direct were the top leaders of the SCO and the NOCs, but the police headquarters in Genoa, which was ousted. It 'was a folly. Both for the victims, and for our image, that the risks a popular uprising. That night there were those who swore at the police station because if the news had reached the ears of twenty thousand leaving the Brignole railway station, is threatened insurrection. "
Transformation the barracks of Bolzaneto in a "concentration camp" begins Monday with the arrival of the GOM, special unit set up in 1997 with a former general SISDE, and already the star of a tough law enforcement intervention in the prison of Opera. Just arrived - dressed in the gray-green camouflage, black sleeveless jacket vest, the black belt which is attached to the holster with the gun, handcuffs and waist to his club, and the radio transmitter attached to the shoulder - take possession of part of barracks already a few weeks before the summit had been converted into a prison, with an adjacent nursing, arrested for the G8.
The gym was transformed into the center of the first arrival and identification. All protesters arrested are brought here, who shows them the documents, all the fingerprints are taken. Next to the gym, on the left, next to the tennis court, there is a building that has been specially renovated for the summit and turned to the prison itself. At the entrance there are two large rooms that serve as open hall. Here, on Saturday night until late Sunday morning, parked the deputy chief of the Digos Genoa with some police office and some police officer.
"What happened to the school and continued here at Bolzaneto was a suspension of rights, a vacuum of the Constitution. I tried to talk to their colleagues and know that answer, that both we should not fear because we are covered. "
that night." The gate was opened all the time - tells the cop - the vans down those guys down and beating. Made them stand against the walls. Once inside the banging my head against the wall. Some are pissed, some shots if they did not sing black facet. A girl was vomiting blood and the GOM the watched. The girls threatened with rape with truncheons ... In short it is useless to tell you what I've read ".
And you, the other?" About us there was a lot of people. The bulk was still in Genoa in the red zone. However, there were those who approved it, but whoever is acted as an inspector stopped a beating, saying "this is not home." And there were people like me who has perhaps done little, and now put to shame. "What if it were not for the GOM?" I do not think that would happen to the slaughterhouse. Our commander is a tough but one of those old, who know the cult of honor and educate men, we call Rommel.
What happened to the democratic policemen? "We are still many - the answers cop - but today we are afraid and ashamed. "(July 26, 2001)
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