Suppressed summit protests 2001: Heavy repression against activists in Gothenburg and Genoa, but no police officer served a sentence

With protests across Europe, international left-wing radicals wanted to build on Seattle and Prague in 2001. In Genoa this escalated into unprecedented police violence Buoyed by the momentum of the large and militant protests against the WTO summit in Seattle in 1999 and the IMF congress in Prague in 2000, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and autonomist networks [ ] Der Beitrag Suppressed summit…