Black Bloc – Chronology – Edit

2002

May
DIAZ • The PM receiving the expertise Scientific Investigation Department of Parma police
on the vest and bulletproof vest agent chose Massimo Nucera, who had denounced an
attack inside the Diaz. In its report of Carnation Colonel it says that the different experimental
shear tests have consistently shown the alignment between the lacerations on the jacket and
on the shoulder pads. An incompatibility exists between the cuts of the garments and those
obtained experimentally, according to the dynamic described by the agent.

May 7
DIAZ • The police responded with a note to the request of the Prosecutor of how many the
Molotov cocktails seized during the G8 summit. It turns out that there has been no seizure of
bottles found in the course Italian.

June 10
• DIAZ II assistant chief added Pasquale Guaglione recognizes, through photos and filming,
the two molotov officially seized the Diaz school as those he found himself in some
bushes of a cross over Italy, at the end of a load during Saturday's clashes, raising the first
suspicions about the origin of Molotov cocktails.

4th July
DIAZ • Michele Burgio, the agent who was driving the vehicle in which they were the bottles (
"an armored magnum supplied to Naples mobile unit"), claims to have warned the general
Valerio Donnini (which was about half of which was Burgio driver) of the presence of these
and he asked if it was appropriate to bring them to the police station, but received a sharp
response ( "He turned to me very angrily, as if I had asked a question stupid or that I should
not do "), and said he later received the order from the assistant chief Pasquale Trojans to
bring Molotov cocktails in front of Diaz. a local issuer video Primocanale (classified under the
name Blue Sky) is also found, which had followed all the days of the event, shot in the
schoolyard during the raid, in which we see the law-enforcement officials who were driving
the search intent on talking to each other on the phone, holding a blue bag which contained
the Molotov cocktails.

August 27
• Alimonda II PM Franz opened the investigation for attempted murder against three
protesters present Alimonda square.

15 November
COSENZA • To order the prosecution to Cosenza, the special forces of ROS and GOM
arrested eighteen activists of "Southern network of rebellious south" by notifying the home to
five other people. Will be forty-one, on the whole, people investigated in the corresponding
strand of inquiry to the events in Genoa and the "dress rehearsal" of March 2001, in Naples.

December 2
Alimonda • PM Franz II advances the storage required for Mario Placanica (self-defense)
and Filippo Cavatalo (nell'autopsia, performed by legal Marcello Channel doctors and Marco
Salvi, excluding the double passage of the Defender of Carlo Giuliani's body has been able to
procure the fatal injuries).

December 2
COSENZA • All the accused are released with the court ruling of the Freedom of Catanzaro.
The ruling demolishes the foundations of the prosecution of the measure.
"Expressing dissent is not a crime", it is the key message of the grounds of that judgment.

2003

May 5
• Alimonda II proceedings on the death of Carlo Giuliani is filed by the GIP Daloiso Elena,
who welcomed not only the storage request from PM Silvio Franz for self-defense, but also
for "legitimate use of weapons in the event."

May 12
DIAZ • The judge for preliminary investigations Anna Ivaldi, on request of the Prosecutor,
decreed the prosecution's filing of aggravated resistance load of 93 stopped at the Diaz
school. 3 February of the following year also comes the storage for the crime of association
aimed at the destruction and looting.

2004

March 2
25 • It is held the first hearing of the trial against the 25 demonstrators accused of
devastation and looting, crime with a sentence of between 8 and 15 years in prison. The
strategy of the prosecution is to demonstrate a "unique design", in which the Tute Bianche
would take advantage of the turmoil created by the black block, and therefore guilty of
competition in the devastation. Goal the defense dismantle the prosecution's theorem
through the detailed analysis of the finds and the cross-examination of
numerous texts.

May 11
BOLZANETO • The prosecutors sign 47 request for a hearing; the charges have become
heavier, the offenses with which for various reasons are: abuse of office, abuse of authority of
arrested, private violence, personal injury, beatings, insults, threats and false ideology, with
respect to registration records where He stated that those arrested were
informed of their rights, and who renounced to warn relatives and consulates. They are as
shouting "long live the leader of fascist insults and humiliating impositions were also
denounced"
however none of the defendants was charged with apologia of fascism.

December 13
DIAZ • The preliminary hearing judge Daniela Farraggi indictments 29 suspects for all the
charges (false ideological committed by public officials in public documents, abuse of office,
slander, personal injury, personal searches and arbitrary inspections, violations domicile
committed by a public official, private violence, corruption, embezzlement, beatings, illegal
introduction in public place with two Molotov cocktails such as "Molotov cocktails", to be
considered a weapon of war).

2005
Alimonda • The Carabinieri puts in Placanica "absolute discharge" for being "permanently
unfit for military service in an absolute way" and in 2005 Placanica ago request to be re-
employed in state civilian roles, because of "permanent infirmity residuatagli as a result of the
injury and the trauma he reported because of the violent aggression".

April 6
DIAZ • it opens the process, which goes live in the autumn of 2005, continuing with 2 weekly
audiences. The College of the GLF is composed of about 40 lawyers. The 93 people arrested
at the Diaz school They are injured parties in the proceedings and were heard as witnesses
PM. The defendants are men closest to the chief of police, as Francesco Gratteri, leading
executives as the head of the preventive police analysts, John Luperi, investigators such as
Gilberto Calderozzi, Filippo Ferri and Fabio Ciccimarra. Along with the other signatories of
the minutes, Spartacus Mortola, the assistant chief Massimiliano Di Bernardini, the assistant
chief Pietro Troiani and Alberto Burgio agent must respond to abuse of office for managing
the entire operation as well as the offenses of forgery and slander in relation to the false
discovery of two Molotov cocktails, the most striking case of manufacture of false evidence
against those arrested. To the beating inside the Diaz are accused of personal injury in
competition Vincent Singers, Michelangelo Fournier and eight foremen Fabrizio Basili, Tucci
Ciro, Carlo Lucaroni, Emiliano Zaccaria, Angelo Cenni, Fabrizio Ledoti, Peter Foreigners and
Vincenzo Compagnone.

May 13
Alimonda • The lawyer Vittorio Colosimo announces the will of Placanica to show up in
court to testify about the facts ( "Mario Placanica will answer all questions of the hundred
anti-globalization advocates, the PM and the president of the court. He tells all he knows as
he did from the beginning ").

September 26
Alimonda • During the hearing of the case against the 25, Placanica makes use of the right
to remain silent, granted to him, despite being called as a witness and not as a suspect in
As already investigated in turn in the process for the death of Carlo Giuliani.

October 12th
BOLZANETO • You open the trial of 45 defendants, have fourteen members of the prison,
twelve are police, fourteen are agents and police officials of the state, beginning with the
assistant chief Alessandro Perugini, then deputy head of the Digos of Genoa (in Meanwhile
also on trial for assaulting a minor protester) and inspector Anna Poggi, assistant chief in
Turin; five are doctors and paramedics of the prison administration, including the provisional
G8 health of the prison manager, James Toccafondi: to him the PM contest among other
violations of penitentiary and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
fundamental freedoms, in particular for "making (..) and have allowed that other doctors
effettuassero controls and so-called 'triage' and medical at the first input with non-compliant
mode in humanity and that do not respect the dignity of persons visited, thus subjecting
people to a penitentiary treatment, even the health, inhuman and degrading ".

2006

December 20
DIAZ • Luciano Garofano RIS Commander (Parma Scientific Investigations) branch shall
submit to hearings the technical advice on the analysis of video and photos for a first
chronological reconstruction of the facts relating to the identification, residence and
movement of the accused during the blitz to 2 Diaz school.

2007

January 17
DIAZ • In January 2007, counsel for the defendants ask to be shown in the classroom
Molotov cocktails, but it turns out that they are neither in the prosecution availability and even
the police, that may have been destroyed by mistake, along with other material exploding
dall'artificiere charge .of destruction of artifacts. According to the defense,
without the corpus delicti the process may end. But the tribunal chaired by Gabrio Baron
declares unfounded the objections raised by the lawyers of the police, and the order
continuation of the process. According to the subsequent investigation conducted by the
prosecutor bottles were intentionally removed by unknown operated through pressure on it
Blaster.

May 3
DIAZ • During the deposition Francesco Colucci, in 2001 superintendent of Genoa, between
amnesia and contradictions in the classroom presents a different version of events from that
reconstructed in investigations, saying that that night, to coordinate the operation was
Lorenzo Murgolo, Diaz sent to the police deputy chief Ansoino Andreassi. It also declares
that it was his initiative to call the police chief Roberto Sgalla press office to ask him to go to
Diaz; he was not so ordered by the police chief Gianni De Gennaro, as claimed in previous
interrogations and before the Parliamentary Investigation Commission. The objectives of the
witness seem to want to erase the responsibilities of the police chief and the accused officials
and turn the chain of command, arguing that the massacre at the Diaz school, should have
been investigated on the only executive to the facts filed after the investigation: precisely
Murgolo Lorenzo, who called to testify, has exercised the right to remain silent. Following the
deposition of Colucci, the prosecutor of Genoa asks the transmission of documents.
Intercepting officials and bomb squad involved in the disappearance of Molotov cocktails, the
judges they encounter in the preparation of witness calls the superintendent Colucci, which
reveal that "the chief ordered Colucci to revise previous statements on the issue Sgalla to
help colleagues defendants in the proceedings to burst into the Diaz school. " "Thou must
trim a bit 'the Game" is the phrase that refers to the former head of the Digos Colucci Mortola,
after talks with De Gennaro.

May 23
DIAZ • Is listened Ansoino Andreassi, at the time deputy chief of police in his testimony he
said that with the arrival of Arnaldo La Barbera was jumping across the chain
command, officially despite being one of his subjects and it was felt the need to make the
largest number of arrests possible to be able to retrieve the image of the forces
the order that they were not able to stop vandalism and clashes of those days.

June 7
DIAZ • It is heard in the process the commissioner Vincent Singers, at the time head of the
riot in Rome. During the deposition, which lasted six hours, Canterini admitted to not having
witnessed the "active resistance from the 93-globalization" of which at the time he wrote in
his report addressed to the Chief Francesco Colucci (reaction that has always been used to
justify the 'use of force by law enforcement officials), but instead to have inferred from what
had been said by other agents present in the schoolyard.

June 13
DIAZ • One of the 28 policemen charged with the raid on the Diaz, Michelangelo Fournier, at
the time vice chief facts added the first of Rome mobile unit to Canterini orders, said in court
in Genoa, answering questions of the PM Francesco Cardona Albini , to have witnessed real
beatings, both by uniformed officers (specifically, in later interviews, "in the uniform of riot
police departments and a white belt ... not blue like ours") both in plain clothes with bib.
Fournier argued that he had not spoken before because he had "the courage to reveal a
behavior so serious by police for spirit belonging "and, speaking of the violence, he has
defined" Mexican butchery "(in the statements made previously to PM the assistant chief had
claimed to have seen the wounded to the ground, but had not witnessed abuse or beatings).

June 20
DIAZ • The media give news of the opening of an investigation by induction and incitement
to false testimony of Gianni De Gennaro. According to the indictment De Gennaro would
have pressured the superintendent Francesco Colucci because they gave a version of the
facts agreed upon, in which you could download the responsibility for the raid on the Diaz
Arnaldo La Barbera (now dead) and Lorenzo
Murgolo, the position of which has already been archived in the past on the PM request.

June 25
DE GENNARO • He was appointed Chief of Police Antonio Manganelli, former deputy De
Gennaro who will become head of the Interior Ministry Cabinet.

October 30th
COMMISSION INVESTIGATION • It is voted on in committee before the House, the bill to
establish a commission of inquiry, but it is rejected (22 votes in favor and 22 against)
because of the vote against the House of Freedom, Udeur and Italy of Values, and the
absence of the Rose in the Fist deputies. The leader of Italia dei Valori Antonio di Pietro,
motivates vote Senator IDV Carlo Costantini he does not wish to endorse an inquiry designed
to investigate only on the work of the police and not even on that of protesters.

December 14
25 • 24 protesters (about 25 requests for condemnation by the PM) are sentenced to a total
of about 110 years in prison for the events of the so-called black block and the street
Ptolemais. Among the 10 convicted of devastation and sacking managers they were judged,
and 13 others for corruption, 1 for injuries. The resistance offense is declassified: the
resistance the carabinieri charge is parted in response to arbitrary act and consequently is
not a crime (in other words, the charge reaction of the police is considered legitimate, only
three defendants, but not the subsequent damage).

2008

March 27
DE GENNARO • Request for trial for Gianni De Gennaro, Spartacus Mortola, Francesco
Colucci signed by deputy prosecutor Mario Morisani and substitutes Francis Cardona Albini,
Vittorio Ranieri Miniati, Patrizia Petruzziello, Enrico Zucca. Gianni De Gennaro, by instigating
or otherwise induction, would determine Francesco Colucci to give evidence during the
hearing of the Diaz proceedings on 3 May 2007 "circumstances do not correspond to the
truth and as they belong to their own perception, even recanting his previous statements."

March 31
DIAZ • The media give the news of the existence of interception between a blaster who had
signed a written report which stated that the two petrol bombs had been destroyed by
mistake (whose phone was under control for other investigations concerning him are not
related to the facts of the G8) and their family members, in which the first said that the
Molotov cocktails were delivered by him to some agents of Digos, but that this version could
not be given to the judges, so he had been advised to use as an excuse the accidental
destruction of the two finds.

April 24th
COSENZA • it will hear the sentence for the South Rebel process, with acquittal for all the
13 accused "because the crime does not exist." Acquitted so Caruso, Casarini and 11 others
accused protesters of the clashes of the G8 summit in Genoa and the Global Forum of
Naples in 2001.

June 6
STREET EVENTS • Before final judgment five months to Valérie Vie, stepped inside the red
zone. It's a French journalist, and was also the first to be locked up in Bolzaneto.

July 14
BOLZANETO The trial of first instance, with 15 convictions (varying between 5 months and
5 years, for a total of about 24 years) and 30 acquittals. Prosecutors had asked for the
condemnation of all 54 defendants. According to the judgment, the convicts and the
Ministries of the Interior and Justice should also pay about 4 million euro in damages to the
plaintiffs (155, with compensation between 2,500 and 15,000 Euros) and legal fees (only
those corresponding to 2.5 million euro, due to high figure of 180 hearings conducted in three
years). Part debate that has developed around the prosecution's requests and their
outcomes was to the effect that the crime of torture does not exist in Italy (neither at the time
nor to that of judgment), so that the PM had asked for sentences (among other charges)
abuse of office (art. 323 of the Criminal Code).

November 13th
DIAZ • The process ends after 172 hearings: The court, presided over by Gabrio Baron,
retired to chambers to decide on a total of 108 years requested by PM Enrico Zucca and
Francesco Cardona Albini. At about nine o'clock the pronouncement: are sentenced Vincent
Singers (4 years), at the time commander of the mobile unit of Rome, which according to the
reconstruction was the first group to storm the institute and several his subordinates
(including Michelangelo Fournier, sentenced to 2 years). Also sentenced Michele Burgio (2
years and 6 months) and Pietro Troiani (3 years) for respectively transported and introduced
into building the two Molotov cocktails. Acquitted the leaders of the security forces present
during the event and managers who signed the minutes of the transaction subsequently
shown containing false statements (such as the presence of Molotov cocktails inside the
school). Also acquitted two suspects agents on the question of the doubt stabbing by a
protester. In total it was paid 35 years and 7 months in prison, plus 800,000 euro
compensation (by some and condemned the Viminale) to be divided among about 90 people.
Not being taken place the identification of agents that had reduced in a coma the British
journalist Mark Covell, this was compensated for only four thousand Euros for being
"Slandered" by some agents.

2009

February 10th
DIAZ • the reasons for the grade 1 judgment are filed, that in recognizing that: "... The search
was placed in the presence of the legal requirements. However, what happened is not only
outside of all rules and regulations of all odds but also of every principle of humanity and
respect for people is what happened in the Diaz Pertini ". And that "in a state of law is not
really acceptable that the very people who should be the guardians of law and order are
pursuing detrimental actions of this magnitude, although in particularly stressful situations." It
means that it was organized as "a conspiracy to the detriment of the occupants" or a "punitive
expedition", "retaliation." The judges, in this regard, they point out that "apart from the lack of
concrete evidence in this regard, seems very unlikely that a similar project
It could have been organized and completed with the agreement of such a large number of
leaders, police officials and operators. "

March 17
DIAZ • The state lawyer Domenico Salvemini, representing the Interior Ministry, has lodged
an appeal against the convictions. A few days later, the prosecution has decided to lodge an
appeal with the Attorney General - Maximum investigative body of the Genoa court - which
supports PM Francesco Cardona Albini and Enrico Zucca.

June 29
DE GENNARO • First hearing before the Gup Silvia Carpanini process expedited former
police chief Gianni De Gennaro and the former leader of the Digos of Genoa, Spartacus
Mortola accused of instigating Colucci to make false testimony during the trial for the violence
on the school.

July 1
DE GENNARO • The PM Enrico Zucca and Francesco Cardona Albini asking for a
sentence of one year and four months in prison for Spartacus Mortola and two years
imprisonment for Gianni De Gennaro, relative to the charge of having pushed the
commissioner Francesco Colucci changing version during the testimony, giving a false.

October 7
DE GENNARO • The judge Silvia Carpanini performs in 1st grade Gianni De Gennaro and
Spartacus Mortola for lack of sufficient evidence of guilt.

October 9
25 • On appeal, 15 of the protesters (including Massimiliano Menai, journalistically known as
"the man with the beam") are acquitted, both for the intervention of the prescription, and
because of the police office in via Ptolemais was evaluated again to be illegal and therefore
the reaction to this has been considered a form of self-defense, both with full acquittal for the
protester already acquitted at first instance. Sentenced to 10 (of destruction and looting
accused) are applied penalties significantly more onerous than those imposed at first
instance, for a total of 98 years and 9 months in prison (the PM had asked a total penalties
for 225 years for the 25 protesters) . The increase of the penis, which maintains years of
imprisonment totaling almost unchanged despite the sharp reduction of the condemned, is
heavily criticized by the political forces and organizations close to the anti-globalization
movement, which show that some of the penalties imposed (up to 15 years) are higher than
those that usually, in Italy are given for more serious crimes such as murder.

2010

March 5
BOLZANETO • Judges of Appeal of Genoa, overturned the decision at first instance, it
emits 44 convictions for the facts of Bolzaneto in the process of the second degree. As for
most prescribed, the condemned will compensate victims. Sentenced to compensate victims
and civil parties also reference the staff present in the prison ministries (Ministry of Justice,
Interior and Defence), gives a figure of over 10 million euro. Seven defendants were
criminally convicted: three years and two months the assistant police chief was Luigi
Massimo Pigozzi, who, according to the allegations, spread his fingers of one hand, tearing
the ligaments, one of the detainees at Bolzaneto. A year are condemned the prison officers
Marcello Mulas and Michele Colucci Sabia, while two years and two months have been
inflicted to the doctor Sonia Sciandra. At one year each were sentenced to police inspectors
was Mario Turkish, Paul and Matilde Arecco Ubaldi, who had decided to waive the
requirement.

May 18
DIAZ • The third section of the Court of Appeal of Genoa reform the judgment of first
instance condemning all vertices of the police chain of command who had been acquitted in
previous judgment. A total of 25 defendants were sentenced to 28, for a total sentence of
over 98 years and 3 months imprisonment. In particular, the former commander of the first
mobile unit of Rome Vincent Singers is sentenced to five years, the head dell'anticrimine
Francesco Gratteri and the former Deputy Director John UCIGOS Luperi four years each, the
former head of the Digos of Genoa Spartacus Mortola and former deputy chief of Sco
Gilberto Caldarozzi both to three years and eight months. A police officer, Pietro Troiani,
charged with Michele Burgio had practical terms introduced the petrol bombs in the school,
was sentenced to three years and nine months. Contrary to what is reported in the first
instance by the news agency, the driver Michele Burgio instead acquitted (for not having
committed the crime in relation to the charge of slander and because the crime does not exist
in relation to the charge of transport weapons). Not the false ideological are declared
prescribed and some episodes of severe injuries, while prescribing snaps for offenses of
minor injuries, slander and illegal arrests. For the 13 policemen who were convicted at first
instance, moreover, the penalties are tightened.

June 4
DE GENNARO • At the appeal trial on pg Enrico Zucca with colleagues Ezio castaldi and
Francesco Cardona Albini calls for a sentence of two years imprisonment for Gianni De
Gennaro, and in one year and four months to Spartacus Mortola, ex digos executive.

June 17
DE GENNARO • The appellate ruling overturns the acquittal of Spartacus Mortola and
Gianni De Gennaro. Both are sentenced: the first in a year and two months imprisonment; the
Prefect De Gennaro, former head of the Interior Ministry Cabinet and special commissioner
for the waste emergency in Campania, in May 2008 appointed director of the department of
safety information, is sentenced to a year and four months in prison for inducing false
testimony. The trial of Francesco Colucci is in progress.