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Notizia riportata dalla BBC News (Monday, 5 May, 2003, 18:51 GMT 19:51 UK=
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                                                 Edoardo Magnone
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"Genoa protester case dismissed"
An Italian court has dismissed a case against a policeman who shot dead
a 
protester during anti-globalisation riots in Genoa two years ago.


The judge ruled that the paramilitary police officer Mario Placanica had

acted in legitimate self defence. He had shot 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani

during clashes with demonstrators during a summit of the world's richest

nations. He was the first fatality since the anti-globalisation movement

began staging protests at world meetings in 1999. Correspondents say Carl=
o

Giuliani has become a symbol of the movement.
'Excessive force'
His father, Giuliano Giuliani, said he was "deeply disappointed" that the=


case had been dismissed. "We were not asking for Placanica to be convicte=
d,

but we wanted a trial to take place," he was quoted as saying in the
Italian press. "The dismissal of the case makes me suspect that they want=


to conceal the truth." Some 100,000 protesters gathered in Genoa for the
G8
summit in July 2001. Police fought running battles with rioting anarchist=
s

and protesters, and used tear gas and water canon to protect the fenced

zone around the summit headquarters. Giuliani was shot dead as a police
van
was attacked by rioters. Hundreds of protesters were injured during the

clashes. A month after the summit, the head of the Italian police admitte=
d

that officers used excessive force in dealing with demonstrators.

"The dismissal of the case makes me suspect that they want to conceal the=


truth" Giuliano Giuliani, protester's father