Introduction

Dear comrades,
at last here we are! After the intense monthes of  mobilization and solidarity with the victims of the  judicial-police persecutions post G8, and after the  unavoidable deliberation pause that followed the last  releases on the first days of October, we are starting  again with a modest project of weekly informative  communications and contacts - called briefly and for  brevity sake News Letter.

With this means of contact and direct and steadfast  updating with all the people that in these months showed  their interest in the repressive aftermath of post G8, we  ant to keep that relation alive and effective, hoping that  it may reach in time new and more significant  anti-repressive instruments and structures both at local and, in prospect, at national and international level.

We are conscious that in the following months there will  be further deadlines / dates and possible developments in  the various enquiries related to the organization and  direction of the G8 summit in Genoa last July, enquiries  which for the moment are in the hands of the italian  (genoese) court.

We are likewise conscious that the scenary on the horizon  are already far more pressing and heavy than the  repressive events that followed G8, but just in the face  of these awareness, we think it should be wrong to look  ahead without succeding in the meantime to equip ourselves  for the best having in mind the recent mobilizations which  have taken the whole of us up hard.

Aware of the tasks and dates we take upon ourselves which  are surely going to evolve and develop in the next future,  we now undertake this modest weekly contribution, open  minded and willing to criticism, proposals, suggestions  and requests, with the aim to face the trial dates in the  best way, prepared, informed and organized.  In a more general way, the Committee is going on with its  work of search and cataloguing of all the data and  witnesses which may help the work of counter-information  and complaint, and which later we would be able to use in  a future publishing project, which will certainly come  into sight more precisely: we'll inform about it all the  people who'll show us their real willingness and interest.

However we are not and don't want to become neither a  traditional newspaper agency neither an alternative one.  We are, and want to remain and Anarchist Committee of  Defense and Solidarity. In short, a technical-political  instrument, limited to real engagement on the field for a  definite fact, however international in importance and  value, as the last summit in full regalia of G8 in genoa  was.

So, the existence of the Committee is and remains bound to  the fulfilment of two main commitments:
1) To arrive prepared at best at the trial deadlines of  the inquiries in order to guarantee the contextual  political, substantial and legal defense of the victims of  repression and to deconstruct and debunk the rigged regime  repressive and informative proceedings with suitable  counter-information and mobilization;

2) to work with the aim to create more structured and  widespread circles than the actual anti-rep front, which  can take upon themselves and find out the limits and  capacities of the mobilization course carried out by the  Committee thanks, too, to cooperation, exchange and  debating with groups, collectives and individuals who in  these months have supported the solidarity action, first  of all the international support group of EA.

Shouldn't it be clear enough up to now, the Anarchist  Committee does not care of and is not directly involved in  the misfortunes of the unlucky people who fell against  their will into the toils of the repressive action and  have now already chosen, or should they decide, to accept  old or new forms of collaboration with the State's  authorities in charge of repression and social control.

Anarchist Commitee for Defense and Solidarity.

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International Thematic News Letter n. 0
by the Anarchist Committee of Defense and Solidarity,
04.01.2002

Repression in and from Genoa in the aftermath of the International G8 Summit of July 2001

- From the consultation, checkout and examination of the  most important italian informative media in the period  28-12-01/03-01-02, we learn and communicate:
There's lots of documents we've still to pass through.  We're going to inform everyone in time from next week  onwards, starting from the most recent data and trying to  synthetize the period going from October to December,  2001.

- From comrades and antagonistic situations, we receive and spread:
At the moment we haven't got news of any planned actions  of interest. We'll try to keep you informed in time by the News Letter.
For what has happened in the period going from October to  December 2001 we are completing a collection of part of  the documentation, condensed in one written report we are  going to distribute from February onwards to the  interested ones.

- From the "legal front", we receive and pass on the  following information and / or requests:

Information updating to the middle of december.

1) Diaz school:
The Public Prosecutors working on the accusations against  the Police have already questioned all the italians and  some foreign people who were in the school. The others  will be listened abroad by request (Germany, England). At  the moment there aren't great results even thanks to the  scanty cooperation of those under inquiry, only two or  three of whom answered the interrogation, providing just  the names of the policemen present (not so much correct  either) and passing the buck in a contradictory way to the  different corps and persons in charge. The biggest problem  is identification, since the photos haven't been supplied  and those who were beaten haven't got very clear  recollections. The issue of the resistence put up by the  people inside the school is, on the contrary, going well  because videos show very clearly that the light was on and  nothing was thrown out of the windows.  Nothing else is known about the bullet-proof vest that  should have been "stabbed" (nobody mentions it any more,  as is the case of the found-out "weapons").  We have also asked to be allowed to listen to the original  tapes recording the communications with the  operations'room in order to be able to understand who said  what as regards the operations; as "Democratic Lawyers", we  have filed a complaint of theft and damaging in relation  to the searching of the Pascoli school since there is no  report of the searching and attachment.

2) Bolzaneto:
Things are nearly the same, even if in this case several  photo-albums of those belonging to different forces  present in the different shifts have been provided ( it's  anyhow a pity that the photos are old, scanned, and two  per three cm in size: their mothers would not recognize  them either!) In the case of Bolzaneto, the various  complaints, which are many, are detailed enough and at  least a probable Ýjoint charge ex art.608 c.p. (not to  have prevented the execution of a crime) is going to be  set up. Here, too, we are trying to ask for many probative  incidents, so that inquiries may not be closed , hoping to  arrive at possible identifications of the responsible  ones.

3) beatings in the streets:
Nearly 250 complaints (including Diaz and Bolzaneto) have  been filed: here the identification problem of the  criminally liable ones are still greater, even if we can  possibly establish the identity of at least the "bosses"  of the various groups of policemen, carabinieri etc. who  were present in the different places.  In the cases of heaviest physical injuries and witnesses,  we are also starting to sue the Minister of Interior  Affairs for damages. Moreover we have filed several  complaints made by associations (mostly, Lilliput net) for  encroachment on freedom to exercise political rights for  those who, charged in Corso Italia, couldn't finish  Saturday march. This is a very complex move, aiming high,  because, up to now, the encroachment of paragraph 294 of  the Penal Code has been acknowledged only in such cases as  the interruption of electoral meetings and voting  operations.  The question should be to pass the idea that even a march  falls within the exercise of political rights.

4) International petitions:
At least four petitions have been filed in international  offices (two at UNO and two at the European court of  justice);  the first two for violation of the conventions on prisoner  treatment and against torture and the second ones for  various encroachments on human rights. The petitions filed  at UNO have already been declared "receivable", therefore  not groundless, even if at international level  the latest news give the impression that they will wait  for the results of the Italian prosecutions ... on our  part, we are moving in several ways about the petitions  filed at the European court and are going to have a  meeting with the Green parlamentary group in Strasbourg.

5) Inquiries against demonstrators:
Black Bloc : two different inquiries are going on side by  side - a general and larger scale one carried out by the  Italian Secret Services (DIGOS) and one on specific  actions carried out by the Special Operative Group (ROS).  At the moment the only denounced ones are those arrested  during G8 or immediately afterwards;  there are also other inquiries:  one on COBAS ( rank-and- file members committees) and the  nursery school in Quarto, one on the armoured car in Corso Torino,  one on the "attack" to a carabiniere of Tuscania  battallion still in Corso Torino, for which two roman guys  have been searched;  one on Piazza Alimonda, and finally  the various charges of aggravated resistance against those  who were arrested during G8.  Till now nobody has been committed for trial.  Notices of inquiry ending are arriving for some street  actions.

6) We have filed several complaints for encroachment on defense right or the taking away of documents to  demonstrators without giving them any record or check
Weekly and/or general comment:
We are conscious the "work" we have started is not easy. We'll try to get better at it and make it possibly become  more actual and available, an evolving work in progress  open to suggestions, criticism, requests and proposals  we'll be glad to receive.
- The committee reminds that people who want to send  contributions in money, have to send them:
through CCP (Current Postal Account) 34165159  headed to Francesco Carrella, 16123 Genova (Italy)
or  international postal order entered as follows:
Francesco Carrella, 16123 Genova (Italy)    specifing the reason:  "Spese di solidarietà e controinformazione vittime post-G8, Genova"
[Expenses for solidarity and counter-information victims after G8, Genova]

People who want to send us materials or news which they  think to be important or significant for the News Letter,  have to send them in the well-known ways:

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Genoa, 05.01.2002