I was looking at yesterday’s news in the coffee shop this morning, and I noticed an unusual thing. I apologize for the lack of links, but with an 11K connection, putting this question together with the photographs would be yesterday’s news (in fact, I’ve written the entire question before the first photo downloaded). You’ll have to rely on my mesmerizing powers of description.
The New York Times’ front page showed a sequence of two photographs from Genoa. The first was a picture of a man in a white t-shirt and a balaclava trying to throw a fire extinguisher into a police ATV. The second picture was of said man, shot and run over, and presumably the subject of the “Man Killed” headline.
The Washington Post, on the other hand, also had a “Man Killed” headline, but it’s photograph showed a picture of police rushing by a body wearing a bloody head-wrapping and a dark paramilitary vest. Definitely not the same person.
So… who and how many died in Genoa?
The German media unanimously reported about one killed person, a young Italian who was involved in the anti-police actions. The exact circumstances are said to be still unclear, but he allegedly was shot by a policeman after throwing a Molotov cocktail towards the police front.
One person has been killed in Genova, at this time. A protester was killed after throwing a fire extinguisher at a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops(Carabinieri). After being shot twice in the head he was run over by the backing vehicle. A reuters photographer witnessed and photographer the event.
Here is the G8 official press-release http://www.genoa-g8.it/eng/attualita/primo_piano/primo_piano_7.html
More can be read http://www.repubblica.it/ (Italian needed)
more here http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=128773
This is also the story I heard today in the evening news; I don’t know where the Molotov cocktail story came up, but there has never been any more than one casualty mentioned.