• G8 Genoa, arrested Vecchi. It was the last black bloc fugitive

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27 September 2019The Rennes Court of Appeal rejected the request for release presented by the Italian Vincenzo Vecchi, arrested last August 8 in France in execution of two European arrest warrants one of which for "devastation and looting" at the G8 of Genoa.

Vecchi was convicted and sentenced with a final sentence of the Cassation to 11 years and 6 months for the violence of 20 July 2001 during the G8 in Genoa. The request for release was presented last August 22 by the lawyers of Vecchi, Maxime Tessier and Marie-Line Asselin, who had requested their release in exchange for "sufficient guarantees", that is the assignment to a residence with a surveillance device ( that is the electronic bracelet), prohibition to leave the territory of Morbihan, prohibition to demonstrate in public, obligation to pay a deposit.

Vecchi was sentenced in Italy in 2007 and 2009 for "devastation and looting" against goods at the G8 in Genoa in 2001 and for having participated in an anti-fascist demonstration that resulted in violence and was not authorized in Milan in 2006. In view of an extradition , the French justice has asked a supplementary information to the Italian judicial authorities, within October 10, to clarify several points related to the sentences pronounced in Italy.