Genoa police 'admit fabrication'

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Wed, Jan 8, 2003 9:32AM

At least 77 police officers have been under investigation for alleged brutality, and three police chiefs have been moved to other jobs.

Italian media have been publishing transcripts of an inquiry into the policing of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit in which officers admit fabricating evidence against protesters.

At the centre of the inquiry is a police raid on a school being used as a dormitory by anti-globalisation demonstrators, in which dozens of people were injured.

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