- The Observer, Sunday July 22 2001
Banner headline in Liberio: 'Legitimate self-defence.'
Il Giornale, Milan, owned by the family of Prime Minister Berlusconi, accused Europe's centre-left governments of breeding a 'generation of genetically modified youngsters' who blamed Western democracy for the world's evils.
La Repubblica, Rome: Everybody lost as a result of the violence.
Corriere della Sera, Milan: The running over of the prone protester denied him the 'ultimate mercy'.
GERMANY
Bild': When will the political hooligans finally grasp that [violence will ensure] the peaceful demonstrators will be given less attention and their arguments be taken even less seriously.'
Der Tagesspiegel (liberal): 'It could well be that it was the authoritarian conduct of Silvio Berlusconi that fired up this war of Genoa.'
Die Welt (conservative): 'The black block [of anarchists] believes that the violence of capitalism must be answered with violence.'
FRANCE
Libération (left-leaning): 'That they [the Italian police] resorted to firearms from the first clashes is a grave and inexcusable mistake.'
Paris-Normandie: 'A human tragedy and totally counter-productive since [the parties] are not capable of dialogue and don't understand each other.'
L'Humanité (Communist): 'Heads of states have made themselves deaf and blind to the realities of the world that they have made.'
BELGIUM
La Libre Belgique: 'The G8 should scrap summits. They are transformed into steel-ringed media circuses and serve only to stir up resentment.'
