ROME - Primaries to select the centre-left candidate to run against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year’s elections were held on Sunday but were marred by a Mafia-style killing of a local politician.
Turnout was high for the first vote of its kind in Italy, almost certain to choose former European Commission President Romano Prodi to head the opposition ticket next spring.
But before the polls closed, police said two masked gunmen shot dead Francesco Fortugno, (…)
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Italy vote overshadowed by Mafia-style killing
17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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G8 summit police lied, says report
15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Chris Summers
The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
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Brutality trials start for top Italian police
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment· G8 protesters claim they were gassed and beaten · New laws could render convictions meaningless
in Rome
Seventy-five people, including some of Italy’s most senior police officers, go on trial in the next two days, accused of taking part in an orgy of brutality against protesters during and after the demonstrations at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
Court papers seen by the Guardian show that one police witness gave a written statement describing his colleagues "beating young people (…) -
Trial forces Italy to relive shocking police brutality
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Peter Popham in Rome
Italy is about relive two of its most shocking episodes of alleged police brutality as the trial of officers accused of illegal behaviour over attacks on anti- globalisation protesters proceed in Genoa.
The attacks occurred as the G8 summit of July 2001 in the port city was winding down after days of peaceful mass demonstrations by 200,000 people from all over the world, and violently anarchic protests by a small group known as the Black Block.
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Italy G8 ’brutality’ trial opens
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
See footage of the violent clashes between protestors and police
Forty-five Italian police and medical staff have gone on trial accused of brutality against protesters arrested during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
The case, which opened at a court in Genoa, was adjourned until November.
The defendants - which include senior officers from Genoa - deny the charges, including unlawful violence.
On Friday, in a related case, 28 officers are due appear in court over a raid at a school (…) -
Italian primary elections : the list of polling stations in the world
12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
We invite all italians to partecipate to primary election the 16th of October and vote for Fausto BERTINOTTI.
There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
The poll will take place on Sunday 16 October from 9am til 10pm in a place TBC. All Italian citizens currently living in every countries in the world, even temporarily (i.e. students to, for (…) -
Bellaciao GB - A message to all Italians in the UK and to their British friends
11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Dear friends, we would like to ask your help in disseminating this message. There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
We recently formed the Bellaciao Collective of Great Britain, a group dedicated to supporting the political activities of the progressive sections of the Italian diaspora in the UK (more on the group at the end of this (…) -
Italy : electoral reforms undergo revision
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentGovernment revises bill after objections from Ciampi
The governing coalition considered revisions to a controversial electoral reform bill on Friday in response to criticism from President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi .
A quintet of ’wise men’ representing the four parties in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right alliance met for almost three hours to discuss possible solutions to points raised by Ciampi’s office earlier this week .
The government is pushing ahead with plans to switch to (…) -
MIGRANTS: BERTINOTTI, SHELTERS ARE INHUMAN PLACES
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
"The publication of the ’diary’ of Fabrizio Gatti in L’Espresso magazine, in which, disguised as a migrant, the reporter spent 8 days in a temporary shelter and underwent a number of outrageous abuses, is further proof of our claims that shelters like the one in Lampedusa should be closed," said Refounded Communists leader Fausto Bertinotti.
"Earlier this year," he added, "our own MEP Giusto Catania reported the abuses which are perpetrated on a daily basis at the temporary shelter in (…) -
Italians living in Malta to vote for Primarie elections without leaving the country
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Chris Galea, di-ve news (cgal@di-ve.com)
Italian citizens living in Malta will have the opportunity to vote in Malta in the Primarie elections on Sunday, October 16th, at the Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) offices in Sliema.
The results of these elections will determine who will be the leader of the Centre-Green-Left Unione that will be facing current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Italian national elections in six months’ time.
The politicians contesting for the Primarie (…)