MEDIA ADVISORY:
Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence

The latest report from Starhawk protesting the Globalization Meeting in Genoa, Italy.
"Globalization has more in common with Fascism than it cynically pretends to have with Democracy." —Rafael Jesus Gonzalez"
(January 10, 2003)




Police in Genoa, Italy have admitted to fabricating evidence against globalization activists in an attempt to justify police brutality during protests at the July 2001 G8 Summit. In searches of the Nexis database, FAIR has been unable to find a single mention of this development in any major U.S. newspapers or magazines, national television news shows or wire service stories.

According to reports from the BBC and the German wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur (1/7/03, 1/8/03), a senior Genoa police officer, Pietro Troiani, has admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school that was serving as a dormitory for activists from the Genoa Social Forum. The bombs were apparently planted in order to justify the police force's brutal July 22 raid on the school. According to the BBC, the bombs had in fact been found elsewhere in the city, and Troijani now says planting them at the school was a "silly" thing to do. . . . .

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