G8 Genoa, father Carlo Giuliani: “My son and Placanica are both victims”

“About that G8 many things have already been said, even if unfortunately for some they did not help, but there is still a lot to repeat, and that is that it would have been necessary to have dignity in a process, instead of an initial dirty decided filing to get rid of the most serious thing that happened in Genoa, and then to be able to say that at the Diaz school there had been a legitimate search and sweets and chocolates were distributed in the Bolzaneto barracks. And this went on for years, until the ability and courage of great magistrates emerged, because fortunately there are not only those who are indecent and unworthy to exercise that noble profession. And Enrico Zucca is one of the brave ones, he fought and finally, 11 years later, in 2012, there was a sentence of the Cassation which stated that what happened to Diaz had produced the degradation of Italy’s honor world. For the facts of Diaz, after the acquittals in the first instance, justice was done ”. Thus at AdnKronos, 20 years after the G8 in Genoa, Giuliano Giuliani, father of Carlo, the young man who on 20 July 2001 was killed by the auxiliary carabiniere Mario Placanica. “It is true – adds Giuliani – that there are three degrees of judgment in our system precisely to eliminate some errors, but in short, between legitimate searches and the degradation of Italy’s honor in the world … either those of the Cassation are furious madmen or the first instance judges are unworthy beings. I favor this second hypothesis “. Giuliani then dwells on the death of Carlo and on Placanica. “In some way they are both victims – he says – also because I, if I have to make a list of those responsible for Carlo’s murder, place Placanica in last place. At the first there are those who commanded that department, the two official carabinieri, who then made a spectacular career, and the deputy chief who for the police ‘associated’ the department. Because the obvious question is this: if the truck is attacked, to use a big word, by five, six, seven boys, it is possible that none of those in command has thought to tell the hundred carabinieri who were at 10 or 15 meters away, ‘let’s go defend it’? And then the first responsible for Carlo’s murder are precisely those who commanded that department “. For many, the events of Diaz and Bolzaneto, and the death of Carlo Giuliani, also had the effect of removing the memory of the violence of the demonstrators in Genoa. “It is a nonsense which, unfortunately, even a few media people were happy to believe – observes Giuliano Giuliani -, because the city was set on fire by small groups of two or three people at a time, so-called Black Bloc, which are left free to do so. There are phone calls, not only from the police and the carabinieri, but from many citizens who report this thing and who, alarmed and even a little angry, indicate where the violent are, but police and carabinieri, not far away, do not intervene. The order was to let them do it because in this way the population, very naive and in some cases even stupid, increased the belief that they were the violent ones who had organized the demonstrations. And it never occurred to anyone to say that an unworthy unit that attacked the White Suit march for no reason, that it was authorized and had done absolutely nothing wrong with it. A kilometer before he reached Brignole he was attacked, and there the disasters that led to the assassination of Carlo began ”. But what would Carlo’s father say to Mario Placanica if he met him today, 20 years later? “I wouldn’t say anything to him – he says -, for heaven’s sake, I don’t want to have these meetings, I don’t care. I would only like those responsible to finally answer for their faults, and instead this is not the case. They have all been promoted. There is even an officer who, in a trial of demonstrators, came to testify talking about ‘war’. The lawyer interrupted him by pointing out that we are not talking about war, but about public order, and the officer went so far as to say that ‘war’ and ‘public order’ are the same thing and only the instruments of offense change. Here, this officer has not been subjected to a psychiatric examination, no, he has been promoted. As well as many of the condemned. I want to remind you that one of the presidents of the Council who passed to be one of the most sober people, I am talking about Mario Monti, appointed one of those responsible within the ministry. Painful, very painful things, which testify to a State that still has a long way to go to be a State worthy of the name ”. PLACANICA: “I AM NOT A JUSTICE” – “That day remains a trauma for me, trauma for the death of a boy like me, who was also a victim on that tragic day. I am not an executioner, I am not an executioner. That day I didn’t have a pistol for Mario Placanica, I had it for the Carabinieri, for the Italian State ”. This was told to AdnKronos by former auxiliary carabiniere Mario Placanica, who on 20 July 2001, during the G8 in Genoa, shot and killed Carlo Giuliani. A few weeks ago the publication of the book “Mario Placanica, the carabiniere destroyed by the ‘due act’”, written by the retired carabiniere Andrea di Lazzaro (who is also the publisher), co-authored by Placanica himself. “That day things got bad – Placanica tells AdnKronos -, the only way I had to drive away those who were attacking us was the gun. I consider myself acquitted, because I did not shoot while aiming. I am a good boy, not an executioner. And maybe Carlo Giuliani was too. I have no faults, I do not feel them on me, but I was treated worse than Riina. But I was a member of the state, I was not Riina. I felt abandoned, no superior safeguarded my being a carabiniere, there was only silence. I felt like a pawn ”. Placanica, then, is moved: “I feel pain, I feel pain because I still dream of wearing that uniform. I was the last of the auxiliaries, but I feel that flame is burning, I was very motivated ”. “I would like to meet Carlo’s father – he confesses – to tell him I’m sorry, that I support them. Although many criticize me saying that I cannot support whoever tried to kill me. But I support the family, because no one knows what it means to lose a child ”.