The Court of 'condemns them appeal, the government defends them. Meanwhile, the massacre at night ten years ago, Diaz, then the top police command were found guilty. And always at night, after eleven hours of deliberation, reached the decision of the Third Division of the Court of Appeal of Genoa, who has decided to impose a four year sentence in Chapter dell'anticrimine Francesco Gratteri, five years to the former commander of the first mobile unit in Rome, Vincenzo Singers, four former Deputy UCIGOS, John Luperi (now the Agency for information and internal security), three years and eight months to former executive Digos di Genova, Spartacus Mortola, (now assistant chief vicar in Turin), three years and eight months, the former deputy head of the SCO, Gilberto Caldarozzi. The same defendants were acquitted in 2008 in the first instance. Two other police officers, Pietro Troiani and Michael Burgio, are accused of having brought the petrol bombs into the school.
tonight in Genoa court has raised a cry of relief as the judges read the verdict. The cries were of many foreigners in attendance, German and English in particular, victims of the assault, including the British journalist Mark Covell, who suffered fatal injuries.
The same, a little later, they issued a press release expressing their satisfaction: "We are pleased that the Italian judiciary has corrected the unjust ruling of November 2008 and recognized the involvement, and criminal intentions connivance of police chiefs. "
And continuing: "Now you know the facts and also the Italian public will be aware of what happened during the Mexican butcher at the Diaz school. We believe that the blitz is to Diaz a prime example of systematic political control exercised over the police from the Ministry of Interior. We can hope that the sentence Diaz is a strong message to all police officers to respect the rights of every Italian citizen. "
But despite the ruling - and the eloquent images of faces swollen and bleeding of the boys beaten in the school who have been around the world - the Deputy Minister Alfredo Mantovano defended the convicted policemen, responding to those, like Vittorio Agnoletto, asked their immediate resignation: "These men have and continue to have full confidence the system security and Interior Ministry." For
Fabrizio Cicchitto, the House leader Pdl: "The ruling on the Diaz makes her more extreme view of the anti-globalization. We believe that night there were undoubtedly mistakes and wrong assessments by some sectors of the police, but there was neither repressive nor a staff design a functional chain of command to it. "
For the former magistrate, now MEP IDV, Luigi De Magistris, "The ruling reduces a page unclean. It is a positive response to the desire for justice and truth that nourishes the country from July 2001, when it was written one of the saddest and most shameful pages of suspending the rule of law in Italy. But it is also recognition for the many men and many women of the police carrying out their duties honestly, within the boundaries of democratic and constitutional always respecting the human person. "
For the Democratic Party senator Roberto Della Sera, the beginning of the legislature submitted a bill for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the violence at the G8 summit in Genoa, "The courts have established the rule of law ' .
"A judge is also in Genoa, not only in Berlin," was the dry comment of Giuliano Giuliani, the father of Carlo Giuliani, killed July 20, 2001, the day before the massacre to Diaz.
