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ITALY: GENOA 2001: Statewatch Analysis

10 April 2015

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On 7 April 2015, the fourth section of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found Italy guilty of contravening art. 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights which forbids torture and inhuman or degrading treatment due to the treatment Arnaldo Cestaro was subjected to and to the criminal offences used to prosecute the case. The courts press release highlights that:

"In particular, the Court rules that, considering the totality of the circumstances that have been presented, the ill-treatment suffered by the applicant in the Diaz-Pertini school must be classified as torture in accordance with article 3 of the Convention. The Court notes that the lack of identification of its material authors results in part from the objective difficulty for the court to undertake certain identifications as well as due to shortcomings in cooperation by the police."

See the full text: Italy/ECtHR: 2001 Genoa G8 police beating in the Diaz-Pertini school was torture - Italy contravened art. 3 of the ECHR in case involving 62-year-old beaten during police operation (pdf): by Yasha Maccanico

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