Genoa police 'admit fabrication'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2636647.stm

Italian media have been publishing transcripts of an inquiry into the policing of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit in which officers admit fabricating evidence against protesters.

At the centre of the inquiry is a police raid on a school being used as a dormitory by anti-globalisation demonstrators, in which dozens of people were injured.

A senior officer, Pietro Troiani, reportedly admitted under questioning that two petrol bombs allegedly found at the school were planted by police to justify the raid.

I have mixed impressions about that.

The protests get out of hand, and for that they should be stopped in advance... if they could guarantee peaceful protests it would be ok, but they just dont seem to be able to manage it. One whiff of politicians being sheilded from it and they'll do anything to get their message across.

Then you've got the political environment in Italy, where planting evidence and corruption is the only way to do things. Its just socially accepted.

Still... it leaves a bad taste in your mouth that the police would do that... especially being from good ol' clean cut NZ.

Damn I can't stand police corruption, these guys should be booted out without any parachute or retirement perks