Italy: First guilty verdict for Genoa clashes:
01 January 2003
A 25-year-old demonstrator from Foggia (Apulia), is the first person to be sentenced in connection with events at the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. He was sentenced to nine months' detention under the rito abbreviato (shortened procedure involving hearings in front of a single judge introduced to speed up court cases, which may be chosen by the accused in exchange for discounted sentencing) for resisting and injuring a carabiniere with a metal bar during clashes on 20 July 2001, when carabinieri from the battaglione Tuscania charged demonstrators who had erected barricades in piazzale Kennedy. Il manifesto 11.2.03.