Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood

On July 1921, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where a hundred unarmed people between protestersmostly studentsand independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next would be called by Amnesty International “the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II.”