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> I want to dedicate this guide to the victims of the assault on the Armando Diaz school, and to all those whose blood has been spilled at the hands of Italian fascism.

For those who don't know, they are referring to the 2001 Armando Diaz school attack [1] (warning: graphic), where hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none of the policemen is serving any jail time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Raid_on_Armando_Diaz

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That was the one sentence that stood out to me as well. I can imagine this was an incident that had a high impact on "Fisher". I remember watching a live-stream of the incident broadcasted from the building on the other side of the road (which was thankfully the building where my friends stayed).

My friends went inside the school after the raid and took pictures that I can't get out of my head to this day. The whole building looked like a slaughterhouse with blood everywhere. Blood-stains on radiators indicating that peoples heads were repeatedly smashed against them. I also remember the screams you could hear on the live-stream. First it was people yelling "pacifisti" and then just screams for 20min until the screaming stopped and ambulances arrived.

That shit really paves the way for young activists continuous fight against facism of any kind.

Very possible that the reference is sunblock, that is a counter-measure to waste the time of anyone trying to track them down and burn them.

Fisher is experienced enough to know any information they leak will be used against them. My guess is that the event is either symbolic or meant build on a persona used to find people like them; post provides a means of contact.

Regardless of their intent, as made clear by my other comment, this was a tragic event, and the police should be held accountable.

Yes, this is what I thought, too. Also I have the distinct impression that the references to the Spanish language are a red herring as well.

Thanks. I'm shocked, I had no idea this had happened.

An interesting movie about what happened at the Diaz school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaz_%E2%80%93_Don't_Clean_Up_...

Where to find it though? I'm having a hard time finding it through legal or illegal means.

If you can deal with arabic subtitles on top of the english ones, it's at https://vimeo.com/150492784 and https://vimeo.com/150597736

Oh, man... I think I'd rather just Buy a dvd and play it with 3rd-party subtitles. Subtitle gore really bothers me.

>> "hundreds of G8 pacific protesters were brutalized and tortured by Italian police. Whilst the police has been found guilty of this, none of the policemen is serving any jail time."

If police commit crimes, they must be held accountable.

Not in Italy.

Or America

Plenty of police in jail in America. They're just harder to convict. Easier to get them fired. Italy is exponentially worse than America on this issue.

And I say that as an activist against police corruption here who also lives in a murder capital. Police pulling shit that bad here is rare outside the "hoods" where it's thugs and low income people nobody cares about. Still usually just a ticket, thrown on a car, or a brief taser. The worst plant shit on people but they're very rare.

Thanks for the link. Im shocked that I never saw this on US media. Idk if it was censored or I just missed it. This is so brutal it puts Abu Grhaib to shame esp given the targets. Makes me want to get a team together and take a plane to Italy to clean house.

Doubt it would help much at this point. Damage is done. Still pisses me off though.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/world/outcry-grows-over-po...

So, it got some coverage but maybe not enough or not in what news I was reading. Still strange given magnitude of event and anti-fascist demographic here. Figured they'd do it gor ratings at tge least.

How many of these attacks are you aware of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_J...

Terrorism is not quite the same thing, but many are similarly notable.

(I'm probably only aware of a couple of them; I'm not grandstanding about awareness here)

Attacks by police in non-dictatorships against covilians at this level? I dont hear of many and dont think of it same as terrorist incidents.

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