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European court blames Italy for demonstration against G8in Genoa

The court made a compensation of 40,000 euros (57,160 dollars) to the family of the demonstrator. But he decided unanimously that the police officer did not use excessive force when he shot during an attack by demonstrators to your vehicle.

The Group of Eight in Genoa led to one of the most violent summits club of rich nations, that many face expressions of anti-globalization groups.

In addition to the death of Italian Carlo Giuliani, more than 231 protesters, many from other countries, were injured and over 280 were arrested. Many of them accused police brutality.

In November 2008 an Italian court found 13 police officers guilty of beating protesters during the summit, but acquitted 16 others, many of them high range.

The European Court, which reviewed the incident at the request of the Giuliani family, found the Italian official in charge of the investigation into his death allowed the body was cremated before the proper analysis and research was very limited.

Italy has not fulfilled its procedural obligations in relation to death, he ruled.

The European Court also reviewed whether the planning meeting had minimized the risk of the use of deadly force. There were a number of shortcomings in the organization of the operation, the court said.

(1 dollar = 0.6997 euro)

( Reporting by Gilbert Reilhac, editing by Jill Serjeant Spanish)