Italy's unhealed wound from Carlo Giuliani's death and police violence at the 2001 Genoa G8 summit
Letter from Rome A mural in tribute to Carlo Giuliani, killed in Genoa on July 20, 2001, by Italian police. DAMIEN MEYER/AFP Twenty-five years after the Genoa G8 summit, Italy is once again confronting the painful memory of a wound that remains open. The extremely violent crackdown on protests organized in July 2001 against the summit, held in the Ligurian port city, is a trauma the country has yet to overcome.
- ▪Letter from Rome A mural in tribute to Carlo Giuliani, killed in Genoa on July 20, 2001, by Italian police.
- ▪DAMIEN MEYER/AFP Twenty-five years after the Genoa G8 summit, Italy is once again confronting the painful memory of a wound that remains open.
- ▪The extremely violent crackdown on protests organized in July 2001 against the summit, held in the Ligurian port city, is a trauma the country has yet to overcome.
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Letter from Rome A mural in tribute to Carlo Giuliani, killed in Genoa on July 20, 2001, by Italian police. Milan, Italy, November 2007. DAMIEN MEYER/AFP Twenty-five years after the Genoa G8 summit, Italy is once again confronting the painful memory of a wound that remains open. The extremely violent crackdown on protests organized in July 2001 against the summit, held in the Ligurian port city, is a trauma the country has yet to overcome. Those who experienced it recall it with horror, and the specter of that unprecedented event – which Italian media widely covered on its anniversary – still haunts progressive circles, activists and Italians who remain committed to the principles of liberal democracy. In the summer of 2001, nearly 200,000 activists and protesters gathered in Genoa.
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