U.S. Student Is Not Included As Bail Hearings Begin in Genoa

[Johannes Schneider]

>From today's Washington Post at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/world/A7068-2001Aug13.html
U.S. Student Is Not Included As Bail Hearings Begin in Genoa
Associated Press
Tuesday, August 14, 2001; Page A10
GENOA, Italy, Aug. 13 -- A Genoa court began hearings today on whether to
release on bail 19 people arrested in connection with violence at last
month's Group of Eight summit. The judges refused to immediately consider
the cases of six others, citing technicalities.
Among those whose cases were not heard was American student Susanna Thomas,
21, who was arrested July 22 along with 18 members of an Austrian theater
company that police said conspired with violent anarchists to incite riots
at the summit.
Thomas's parents have said their daughter, a Quaker, would never take part
in violent protests and was in Genoa researching nonviolent social activism.
Thomas's Italian attorney, Gilberto Pagani, said the judges refused to
consider her case because there were too many lawyers listed as representing
her. He said the situation had been resolved and that he would file a motion
Tuesday asking for her release.
Pagani said his client appeared in court today to answer prosecutors'
questions as part of a larger investigation.
"Her spirits are not the happiest," he said. "It's already difficult for us
Italians to understand what's going on. For a foreigner it's even more so."
Police allege the theater company Thomas was traveling with conspired with
anarchists before and during the summit.