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Death In Genoa
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At Genoa's Piazza Alimonda, the scene was set for violent tragedy. Smoke from burning rubbish bins mingled with tear gas and an acrid stench from the smoldering hulk of a police van in the nearby Corso Torino. Burned-out cars lined the streets. An automatic teller machine had been ripped out of a wall, banks and a real estate office trashed, stores looted. Demonstrators' makeshift flak jackets, fashioned from plastic water bottles and duct tape, littered the streets. Every uniformed figure became a target for some of the protesters; peaceful protesters and journalists became fair game for some of the...