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An article in the Times describes the police brutality in Genoa, quoting from several Globalise Resistance members. Protesters describe how they were hit with batons and shields while protesting peacefully, and how they were teargassed when they marched up to the fence around the Red Zone. One witness saw a woman in her sixties carried away, with blood coming from her head, after one police baton charge. (Full text here.)

Ger Francis of Globalise Resistance, interviewed on BBC News 24 at 10am, reported that police helicopters had harassed the Convergence Centre all night.

Ger also commented that police had come to the protests looking for confrontation, and had abused demonstrators.

The Guardian reports that, minutes after police killed Carlo Giuliani, they were shown on Italian TV shouting at demonstrators "Pieces of shit! It is you who killed him!"

The Killing of Carlo Giuliani
The Daily Mail and Mirror both publish several pictures of the incident where Carlo was killed. These make clear that he was shot with a pistol at close range as he prepared to throw a fire extinguisher at a police land rover. The land rover then reversed over his body.

There is no way that the killing can be described as "self defence" by police officers in fear of their lives. The killing has been widely condemned in Italy. The Guardian reports that opposition politicians are calling for Interior Minister Claudio Scajola to resign. Fausto Bertinotti, leader of the Italian Refounded Communists, said the security operation had been absurd and excessive.

BBC News 24 is reporting that that the police officer who shout Carlo is under investigation on suspicion of manslaughter.

Spontaneous demonstrations took place on Friday night throughout Germany to protest the shooting. There were protests in Leipzig, Hamburg, Cologne, Hanover etc. Police prevented several hundred people in Leipzig from marching to the Italian consulate. More info (in German only) at Indymedia Germany. A protest has taken place in San Francisco, and another one is planned for Monday (see Indymedia San Francisco.) More than a hundred people joined a protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina (more at Indymedia Italy.)

Inside the Red Zone
The amount of money spent on the summit has disgusted even the right-wing Daily Mail. They comment that the summit cost �100 million - "This is the equivalent of the combined annual debt service payments of Malawi, Mali, Mozambique and Burkina Faso. It is double the entire health budget of Tanzania, which has a massive AIDS crisis."

On board the European Vision, the ship where world leaders are staying during the summit, they will be able to taste 170 different kinds of cheese, 54 kinds of bread and choose from a selection of 7,000 bottles of wine. (BBC Online) The bedrooms have marble bathrooms and gold taps (Daily Mail).