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The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.
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Carlo Giuliani (; 14 March 1978 – 20 July 2001 ) was an Italian anti-globalist who was shot dead by a police officer during the demonstrations against the Group of Eight summit that was held in Genoa from July 19 to July 21, 2001.
On July 20, 2001, Giuliani was participating in a protest against the 27th Group of Eight summit in Genoa, Italy, when he was killed during a violent clash between protesters and Italian Carabinieri in Piazza Alimonda.
* Pink Silver Group in Genoa report
The President of the Region, Claudio Martini, although criticised on some points by no-global activists, had been a supporter of the movement since the time of the Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest ) on one side and the right-wing Italian government on the other.
People feared that the ESF could provoke riots and accidents such as those of the Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, from July 18 to July 22, 2001.
On the night of the 22-23 October 85 Lancasters of the Group attacked Genoa without a single loss.
The RINA Group has offices in 42 countries worldwide ; the Head Office is in Genoa and it has about 120 branch offices, 40 of which in Italy, and a workforce of over 1600 people.
Genoa and Eight
Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.
Genoa and Summit
Beyond a complete restyling of the area, the ancient portual zone nearby the Mandraccio opening, in Porta Siberia, was scenographically enriched by Piano himself with a big sphere made of metal and glass, installed in the port's waters, not far from the Acquario, and unveiled in 2001 in occasion of the G8 Summit held in Genoa.
Former Jubilee 2000 UK staff founded the short-lived Drop The Debt to work in the run-up to the 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, maintaining Jubilee 2000's combination of lobbying, celebrity work and mass activism.
Genoa and protest
* 1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
For Corfiotes a recent example of such heroism is that of geology student Kostas Georgakis, who set himself ablaze in Genoa, Italy on 19 September 1970, in a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
At the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, amongst the many complaints about the police there was mention of video footage in which " men in black were seen getting out of police vans near protest marches.
The big clubs ( Genoa, Torino and Milan ) withdrew from both the championships in order to protest against the autarchical policy of FIF.
The Georgian Orthodox Church was also persecuted ; over 1, 500 churches and monasteries were closed or demolished and a number of clerics were imprisoned, including Catholicos Patriarch Ambrose who was arrested and tried for having sent a letter of protest to the 1922 Genoa Conference in which he described the conditions under which Georgia was living since the Red Army invasion and begged for the " help of the civilized world ".
In 1970 Greek geology student Kostas Georgakis burned himself to death in Genoa, Italy to protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
Genoa and from
At the turn of the 19th century, immigrants from Naples and Genoa opened the first pizza bars, though Spanish residents subsequently owned most of the pizza businesses.
It originated from necessities of the state, as did the Bank of Venice ( 1402 ) and the Bank of Genoa ( 1407 ).
Bonaparte's armada sailed from Toulon on 19 May 1798, making rapid progress through the Ligurian Sea and collecting more ships at Genoa before sailing southwards along the Sardinian coast, passing Sicily on 7 June.
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Genoese constituted about one-third of the civilian population ( a large number of immigrants had arrived from Genoa at the beginning of the century ).
He went to Italy, escaped from arrest at Genoa, and had to take refuge among the Apennines, Pope Clement XI, who was his bitter enemy, having given strict orders for his arrest.
In 1766 the French Kingdom annexed Lorraine and the following year bought Corsica from Genoa.
The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.
In August 1257, John of Arsuf tried to end the war by granting commercial rights in Acre to Ancona, an Italian ally of Genoa, but aside from Philip of Montfort and the Hospitallers, the rest of the nobles continued to support Venice.
According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.
As the Ghibellines intended their fortress to be a strategic military stronghold and center of control for the area, they set about creating a settlement around the base of the Rock to support the garrison ; in an attempt to lure residents from Genoa and the surrounding cities, they offered land grants and tax exemption to new settlers.
* 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
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Important naval victories of the Ottoman Empire in this period include the Battle of Preveza ( 1538 ); Battle of Ponza ( 1552 ); Battle of Djerba ( 1560 ); conquest of Algiers ( in 1516 and 1529 ) and Tunis ( in 1534 and 1574 ) from Spain ; conquest of Rhodes ( 1522 ) and Tripoli ( 1551 ) from the Knights of St. John ; capture of Nice ( 1543 ) from the Holy Roman Empire ; capture of Corsica ( 1553 ) from the Republic of Genoa ; capture of the Balearic Islands ( 1558 ) from Spain ; capture of Aden ( 1548 ), Muscat ( 1552 ) and Aceh ( 1565 – 67 ) from Portugal during the Indian Ocean expeditions ; among others.
The Republic of Genoa possessed Galata, a separate Genoese city across the Golden Horn from Constantinople itself.
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In Bologna, the meat-based Bolognese sauce incorporates a small amount of tomato concentrate and a green sauce called pesto originates from Genoa.
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Genoa and July
* July 31 – Pisa and Genoa agree to a thirty year truce.
* July 13 – Jacobus de Voragine, Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa
* July 14 – donation of Altavilla: Bohemond I, the new crusader ruler of Antioch grants commercial privileges and the right to use warehouses ( fondaco ) and the church of Saint John to the Republic of Genoa.
Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.
Blessed Jacobus de Varagine or Voragine ( ( c. 1230 – July 13 or July 16, 1298 ) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa.
The tute bianche movement reached its apex during the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, in July 2001, with a turn-out of an estimated 10, 000 protesters in a single " padded block ", ironically after a collective decision to go without the white overalls.
The Ikarians have historically been under control by Polycrates ' Sea Empire, the Second Athenian League, the Roman province of Asia, the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Genoa, the Knights of Saint John and the Ottoman Empire before becoming an independent people on the 17th of July, 1917.
Siri resigned from his post in Genoa on 6 July 1987, after 41 years of service.
The 27th G8 summit took place in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001.
He was interviewed in the art-film-tract " Get Rid Of Yourself ", contributing some of his perspectives to an analysis of the Black Bloc and anarchist participation in the G8 ministerial in Genoa, Italy which occurred July 2001.
After the July Genoa G8 summit, the Publixtheatre Caravan, part of the No Border network, is accused of being part of a " criminal organization " called " Black blocs ", although such " Black blocs " are not organized and only form themselves on a spontaneous manner during demonstrations, as in the older autonomist movement.
The first mention of Menton dates from 21 July 1262, in the peace treaty between Charles of Anjou and Genoa.
On 29 July 1943 nine aircraft took off from Scampton to drop leaflets on Milan, Bologna, Genoa and Turin in Italy.
* In July 2005, Italian Serie B champions Genoa was arbitrarily placed last in the division, and therefore condemned to relegation in Serie C1, after it was revealed that they bribed their opponents in the final match of the season, Venezia to throw the match.
On July 6, 1987 he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Genoa.
Panucci started playing with Genoa in 1990 and then moved to Milan in July 1993, at the age of 20.
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