PBefore the shot: the police charge
The events which led to Carlo Giuliani's death are part of a complex series of facts concerning the actions carried out by the police against the march held by the "Disobbedienti" [literally: "those who disobey", the former "White overalls"], which set off in the early afternoon of the 20th of July from the Carlini stadium. More precisely, these events are linked to what happened when the march, which was legally authorised to take place, was suddenly and inexplicably attacked by the carabinieri [the military police] and the police on a road where it was authorised and where it was still far away from the "red zone".
One must bear in mind that the road where the march was attacked from the front (via Tolemaide) is closed by a high wall where the railway tracks run on the right and by buildings on the left; the only way out of what appeared to be a veritable trap were three small streets on the left, from which the carabinieri charged against the demonstrators. The march was thus surrounded and trapped.
From the moment when the first charge took place the attacks on the demonstrators on the part of the police were continuous and extremely harsh (lethal teargas was shot towards the crowd rather than in the air, water-cannons loaded with stinging water were fired, armoured vans and jeeps were driven against the unarmed crowd at a speed of 70 km/h, special reinforced batons, "tonfa", were used, and 15 shots were fired). The demonstrators reacted and counter-attacked in a hopeless attempt to reach their objective (violating the Red Zone symbolically) and to escape from the violence which they encountered. Any collective tactic which the demonstrators attempted to carry out was blocked by the continuous charges.
Another important element is that the events involving Carlo directly began because of a useless and extremely dangerous charge carried out by the carabinieri along the part of via Caffa which meets via Tolemaide. This charge was directed against a rudimental barricade erected to protect the demonstrators, who were being attacked from the front and the rear, from an attack from the side; Carlo Giuliani was one of the people defending the barricade.
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In his video, Ferrario analyses the causes of the events in piazza Alimonda. He notes how the specific charge from via Caffa was the first time that the police attempted to break up the march and how it was also the first time that a single unit attacked isolating itself from the others. The consequences were those that we all know. Look at the video to see a reconstruction of what happened.
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We also have a series of photos of these events.
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The flight
Carlo's death
Who was on the jeep
What happens on the jeep
The armoured vehicle in via Torino
Cavataio's responsibilities
Placanica, the man without a face
Placanica in hospital
Carlo's body and the autopsy
But this is not everything.