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G8 street fights

In July 2001 the eight biggest world's coutries came to meet in Geoa, noth-west of Italy, to discuss and make plans on world economy. The location where was supposed to be the meeting was right in the centre of town, so the area was isolated and protected with hundreds of huge steel barriers.
The meeting lasted for two days and the prime ministers were well protected during that time, but outside the barriers a real war started between black-blocks (against the G8 meeting) and police, along the streets. Carlo Giuliani, a protestor, was shot down dead by a policeman, during the street fights.

By the end of the G8 meeting, there were 220000 protestors, 331 wounded, 280 arrested, 16 journalists recovered in a hospital, 2500 acrredited journalists, 30000 cameras and videocameras. And the city of Genoa was seriously damaged.