Genoa remembers the death of Carlo Giuliani in Piazza Alimonda

Genoa 20 July, Piazza Alimonda, at 5.27 pm twenty years ago

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At that moment Carlo Giuliani was killed by the gunshot fired by the carabiniere Mario Placanica. 

Today, like every 20 July for twenty years now, Carlo's death will be remembered precisely in that square which for some time anonymous hands have renamed 'Piazza Carlo Giuliani - Boy'.

And it will be flowers and applause, and words.

Because Carlo Giuliani, like the police violence at Diaz and the torture at Bolzaneto, are the symbol of everything that cannot become just a memory.

The scars remain, the questions remain, the request for justice remains despite the trials, the apologies, the words.

For two days the city has been paying tribute to the twentieth anniversary of the 2001 G8 in Genoa with conferences and processions and testimonies: Carlo's father, Giuliano Giuliani, the journalist who has ended up in a coma due to the beating of the police Mark Covell, the representatives of that network that invokes a 'society of care' opposed to that of capitalism.

And the Zapatista march, which arrived in Piazza de Ferrari amidst songs, slogans and banners: "The night is darker before dawn".

"Whoever says that the movement was born and died during the G8 is wrong" say today the representatives of Attack Italia in the national assembly of the network in Piazza Matteotti, a few steps from Palazzo Ducale in front of a hundred young people who perhaps twenty years ago they were born. "Take up that challenge and get out of the profit economy" are words and slogans that recall those shouted in the Genoese squares at the time, recall the words of Don Andrea Gallo, the worker priest, the priest of the least. Because the game, they say "is between the Stock Exchange, with a capital B, and life and we choose life". And then a "great mobilization for the autumn" is announced, after the G20 meeting in Rome "to tell them that they cannot decide the destinies of the world".

Now as then, the net tightens the mesh between which questions remain trapped that still remain unanswered. Twenty years have passed, but the spirit that animated the thousands and thousands of young people with white-dyed hands who asked for public water, food and work for everyone, a just economy, an inclusive world is the same as it was then. The same in which the boy believed who today, as twenty years ago, will return to being on the asphalt of Piazza Alimonda.

The 'Anarchists for the destruction of the existing' dedicate the fires lit on two repeaters to that boy: "In these 20 years, on those days, politicians, leaders and politicians of the movement, priests and even Carlo's family, have thrown up who reformist analyzes devoid of truth, who are real defamations of Carlo's person - they say - We instead want to remember him by giving him the dignity he deserves, without hypocrisy, far from idolatry. domain, we want to dedicate them to Carlo and to all the rebels and revolutionaries who have fallen in the world fighting for freedom, equality, social justice ".