From: schuurman (dollehon@dds.nl)
Date: 14 Aug 2001 21:57 uur
Sorry, in het Engels. Het verhaal is nu dat 19 mensen worden vrijgelaten en
het land uitgezet - eventueel naar Zwitserland, maar dat is allemaal nog
onduidelijk.
Groeten,
S.
Italy-G8
Italian court considers releasing G8 riot suspects on bail
GENOA, Italy, Aug 14 (AFP) - An Italian court was on Tuesday deciding
whether to release on bail 25 members of an Austrian theatre troupe charged
with rioting during the Group of Eight summit in Genoa last month.
The court still had to hear one person before issuing its verdict on the
25, who say they belong to a militant theatre group called
VolxTheaterKaravan which campaigns against globalisation and racism.
The group comprises 18 Austrians, three Americans, two Slovakians, an
Australian and a Swede
Separately, the court was also on Tuesday hearing a case against six
Germans accused of taking part in the violent demonstrations during the July
20-22 summit of world leaders, in which a 23-year-old rioter was shot dead
by police and hundreds were injured.
Italy's Nobel laureat for literature Dario Fo recently called the arrest
of the theatre troupe a "monumental gaffe". Fo said the authorities had
confused the theatre group's performance accessories with weapons.
The troupe is also accused of holding a meeting in Slovenia on June 16 to
plan its campaign of violence for the G8 summit, which brought together the
leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the
United States.
The authorities have based their accusations on tapped mobile phone
conversations, telephone numbers found in the group's diaries, and documents
confiscated when the performers were arrested on July 22.
The members of the troupe have denied all accusations.
Among the arrested was US national Susan Thomas. Thomas' mother told
Italy's RAI public television her daughter had only been travelling with the
theatre
group "because she was sick" and had wanted to leave Genoa.
Thomas asked the theatre group to give her a lift because she thought the
Genoa train station was closed, her mother said. All 25 were then arrested as
they left Genoa.
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi last Thursday told his Austrian
counterpart Thomas Klestil the protestors were being treated properly and would
be judged "according to the rules of a nation with modern laws".
An investigation by the Italian interior ministry has accused police of
using disproportionate force against the estimated 150,000 protestors who
converged on Genoa during the G8 meeting.
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