G8 Genoa, the night at the Diaz school which became a "Mexican butcher"
"Never again another Diaz", the promise of the chief of police Alessandro Pansa
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22 June 2017 Italian laws are inadequate to punish and therefore prevent acts of torture committed by the police. This was established by the European Court of Human Rights which once again condemned Italy for the acts of torture perpetrated by the police on the night between 20 and 21 July 2001 in the Diaz school, on the edge of the G8 in Genoa, to the detriment of several people. The Court also condemned Italy for failing to adequately punish those responsible for what happened in Genoa.
The sentence issued today by the Strasbourg Court essentially follows the one that the judges had pronounced two years ago in the Cestaro case, in which they asked Italy to introduce the crime of torture into the national legal system. And one day follows the letter sent to the Italian authorities by the Commissioner for human rights of the Council of Europe, Nils Muiznieks, in which concerns are expressed about the text now being examined by the Italian Parliament. 42 people of various nationalities presented an appeal against Italy for the torture suffered by Diaz, as well as for the failure to identify and therefore condemn the perpetrators and the absence of a crime of torture in Italian law. time of the facts were between 20 and 64 years. The appeal iswas sent to the Strasbourg Court at the beginning of 2013 and communicated to the government so that it could defend itself on 10 November 2015, 4 months after the Strasbourg Court had condemned Italy for the first time, in the Cestaro case, for exactly the same reasons. Today's ruling states that the applicants have been tortured, those responsible have not been punished as they should have been and Italy does not have a law that adequately criminalizes and therefore prevents torture. The Court, which disqualified 13 of the applicants from the role while it awarded the other 29 indemnities ranging between 45 and 55 thousand euros for moral damages. Several appeals are still pending before the Strasbourg judges, always focused on the crime of torture, relating to the events of the G8 in Genoa,in particular to what happened in the Bolzaneto barracks. These are in particular the applicants who did not join the plea bargain reached with some of the Bolzaneto victims by the Italian government last April on the lawsuits brought before the Court.