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GENOA 2001: ECHR Press release: Police violence: Italian criminal law inadequate and not an effective deterrent

08 April 2015

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"In todays Chamber judgment1 in the case of Cestaro v. Italy (application no. 6884/11) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of ill-treatment sustained by the applicant, and a further violation of Article 3 on account of the criminal legislation applied in the present case. The case concerned events which occurred at the end of the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001, in a school made available by the municipal authorities to be used as a night shelter by emonstrators. An anti-riot police unit entered the building around midnight to carry out a search, leading to acts of violence."

See the full text: Police violence: Italian criminal law inadequate and not an effective deterrent (pdf) and: Full-text of judgment - French (pdf)

See: Statewatch Analysis: Italy: Making sense of the Genoa G8 trials and aftermath by Yasha Maccanico (pdf) and Statewatch Observatory: EU: Public order and reactions to protests

See also: Italian police 'tortured' Genoa G8 protester, says ECHR (BBC News, link)

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