Daniele Vicari : 2012
The G8 summit in July 2001 was drawing to a close. At the Diaz Pascoli School in Genova, which had been set up as a social forum for journalists, the young people were in good spirits, in spite of the violent clashes with the police that had occurred during the previous days. As had been the case in other countries during the same year, here too the anti-globalisation protests had been met with heavy police presence. Yet nothing was to prepare the temporary inhabitants of the Diaz school – most of them young men and women from all over Europe – for what was to happen. Shortly after midnight, the anti-riot police stormed the school and brutally attacked these young people for two hours until almost all of them ended up in hospital and were later taken to a detention centre where they suffered shameless humiliation and abuse following arrests. To justify their actions, the police planted Molotov cocktails in the building. By the end of the G8 summit, one individual had lost his life. Daniele Vicari places young, likable demonstrators, who just wanted a slightly more humane world, in opposition to a horde of brutality-obsessed policemen, who bloodily beat and remorselessly interrogated dozens of innocent people. The film depicts the injustice of one night with maximum transparency.
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