Carlo Giuliani

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Carlo Giuliani (* 14. March 1978 in Rome ; † 20th July 2001 in Genoa ) was an Italian student, who thus became known that he and demonstrators during a street battle in the context of the protests against the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 one of Carabiniere was shot from an off-road vehicle of the Carabinieri. In the course of research into the events, discrepancies became apparent between the official presentation by the authorities and the actual events. Because activists uploaded photos, videos and eyewitness reports to Indymedia to counter this, this Internet platform became very well known.

Circumstances of death

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In the course of riots that followed a demonstration by critics of globalization against the G8 summit in Genoa, a police car was attacked by demonstrators with wooden beams, fire extinguishers and other objects in Piazza Gaetano Alimonda . When one of the policemen aimed his pistol out of the rear window, which was broken by demonstrators, and shouted “I will kill you”, several of the attackers fled. Carlo Giuliani, who also belonged to a group of violent demonstrators, had thrown a fire extinguisher at the police vehicle. Of two shots fired, one bullet hit Giuliani in the head. Giuliani fell to the ground just behind the vehicle, which then rolled over him both when reversing and when driving away and drove away within a few seconds.

The events were conveyed in the press primarily through the use of photos taken by a photographer with a telephoto lens. These photos give the impression that Giuliani is standing motionless less than half a meter from the police SUV and is holding the fire extinguisher at chest height. Another image, taken at the same time from a different position, suggests that the off-road vehicle was wedged between Giuliani and a garbage can and that Giuliani was about four meters away from the vehicle with the fire extinguisher held up high. Later photos also showed that the car was not isolated, but that other carabinieri were waiting a little further away.

The policeman appealed to self-defense because he had to protect himself from Giuliani attacking with the fire extinguisher. The criminal proceedings against the Carabiniere were discontinued in May 2003. The judge relied on a ballistic report, according to which the shot that killed Giuliani was released in the air, ricocheted off a stone and only therefore fatally hit Giuliani. Lawyers, journalists, parts of the anti-globalization movement and Giuliani's parents doubt this representation and refer to video recordings that suggest that the shooter aimed directly at the attacker immediately before the shooting. Photos also show how the shot Giuliani was touched by Carabinieri before a forensic investigation and the objects around him, including the stone, were arranged differently. Witness statements report how the carabiniere shouted "I will kill you" in the off-road vehicle. When the first journalists arrived at the scene of the crime with the camera running, the vice-chief of police accused a single demonstrator standing on the sidelines of having killed Giuliani by throwing a stone, whereupon two of the many police officers present briefly walk in his direction, but then run him to let.

family

Giuliani's mother, Haidi Giuliani, was a member of the Italian Senate from 2006 to 2008 , where she devoted herself to investigating this and similar cases.

Carlo Giuliani's father said of the investigation: “My son was murdered and it was not an individual, but the state. But the investigation will probably come to the conclusion that Carlo committed suicide while the police were holding a clay pigeon shooting on the square. ” On August 25, 2009, the case brought by the parents and a sister of Giuliani's before the European Court of Human Rights was dismissed. Nevertheless, Italy was sentenced to pay 40,000 euros in compensation to the bereaved for failing to thoroughly investigate the causes of death.

The film "What happened in the Piazza Alimonda?" Uses a re-evaluation of the image and video material to show the minutes or seconds of the events from the perspective of the father of the man who was shot.

In August 2016, a comic about Carlo Giuliani was published, in which the life and death of the demonstrator and the family's attempts to bring those responsible to justice are reconstructed.

music

Giuliani's death was musically processed in various forms:

  • The Spanish ska band Ska-P processed the death of Carlo Giuliani in their anti-globalization song Solamente Por Pensar and also regularly called for “Justicia” at their concerts when playing this song (at concerts in Italy the Italian version “Solamente per pensare” is sung) para Carlo Giuliani! ”(“ Justice for Carlo Giuliani! ”).
  • The song is also Rabbia dentro il cuore the Los Fastidios Carlo Giuliani devoted.
  • The Heidelberg band Irie Révoltés dedicates a verse of their song Resistencia to Carlo Giuliani .
  • The English pop band Chumbawamba also wrote him a song in the version of the popular song Bella Ciao .
  • The band Petrograd wrote the song July 20th and produced a music video for it.
  • The English punk band Conflict produced a video for their song Carlo Giuliani .
  • The Italian punk band Klasse Kriminale also wrote a song for him.
  • The German group Rotes Haus dedicated the song Limo to him .
  • In May 2007 the group Projekt Gegengift recorded the song Genua , which deals with the events of 2001 and at the same time criticizes the G8 and capitalism.
  • The Italian band Modena City Ramblers deals in the song La legge giusta about the events that led to the death of Carlo Giuliani.
  • The American hardcore punk band Behind Enemy Lines also dedicated a song to Giuliani with Murder at the G8 Summit .
  • The song Relationen by the German rapper Albino is about Carlo Giuliani.
  • On the first CD released in 2001 by Tom Liwas Project No Existe is an instrumental called P. Carlo Giuliani
  • Casa del Vento an Italian folk group released the number La canzone di Carlo on their album Genova chiama .
  • The band The Bandwidth speaks to the death of Guiliani in their song Die Welt ist schön .
  • In the first verse of their piece Hiçbir Şeyin Şarkısı (The Song of Nothing), the Turkish band Bandista addresses the death of Carlo with the lines of text: “He is lying in a gutter, his comrades are tearing the city apart. Carlo will be resurrected and hold you accountable. The sun, the sun will rise again. "
  • The band Frucht des Zorns plays on the album between life and survival in their song Die Welt turns in their joints in a line of text to the death of Carlo Giuliani: "and one of them is now dead on the floor, and the walls are full of blood" on Original audio documents from eyewitnesses and victims of police violence are played at the beginning of the song.
  • The rapper Marcello mentioned the name on a line in the track System .
  • In the track receiver of orders , by Mc_Geiver ft. Straight Jonez, the death of Carlo Giuliani is mentioned.
  • The Italian rap band Assalti Frontali dedicates a song to Carlo Giuliani with the title Rotta Indipendente.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The death of the student Carlo , welt.de, July 22, 2001
  2. ^ "Indymedia": Louder, more radical, more uncompromising. In: zeit.de . August 26, 2017, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Dario Azzellini : Eyewitnesses and Photos: Shots at Carlo Giuliani no self-defense. In: heise.de . August 3, 2001, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Heike Haarhoff - It was revenge . In: taz of July 23, 2001
  5. ↑ A day like a war . ( Memento of February 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Courier
  6. ^ Fatal encounter between two idealists . In: Welt am Sonntag
  7. ↑ Fatal shots at G8 in Genoa . NTV
  8. ↑ Ten years in court . jungle-world.com, July 14, 2011
  9. ^ Said picture II ( Memento from June 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Carlos family charges . In: taz , December 6, 2006
  11. ↑ Dario Azzellini : Who Shot Carlo Giuliani? Telepolis , July 20, 2002
  12. ^ Carlo Giuliani: ECHR acquits Italy . Indymedia, March 24, 2011
  13. ↑ Christian Scholl: Two Sides of a Barricade , p. 189 ISBN 978-1-438-44513-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  14. ↑ Film What happened in Piazza Alimonda? ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.piazzacarlogiuliani.org
  15. ↑ http://www.bahoebooks.net/start_de.php?action=201&id=43
  16. ↑ Music video July 20th
  17. ^ Video by Carlo Giuliani
personal data
SURNAME Giuliani, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opponent of globalization
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2001
Place of death Genoa