Italian minister escapes censure over G8 brutality

Italy's Interior Minister, Claudio Scajola, has survived a vote of no confidence over the police handling of the violent protests at the G8 summit in Genoa earlier this month.

Italian minister escapes censure over G8 brutality

Italy's Interior Minister, Claudio Scajola, has survived a vote of no confidence over the police handling of the violent protests at the G8 summit in Genoa earlier this month.

The vote in the Senate was 180-106 in Scajola's favour, despite the fact that the police shot dead one unarmed protestor, 22-year-old Carlo Guiliani.

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