Timeline Saturday 21 July 2001

Events on Saturday 21 July 2001 1

• 2001 G8 summit protests in Genoa Protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead The G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001 drew around 200,000 anti-globalisation demonstrators and heavy policing. On 20 July the protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a carabiniere, the first fatality at such a protest in Western Europe. A night raid on a school used by activists led to convictions of police years later.