Twenty-five years after the protests against the G8 in Genoa in July 2001, piazza Alimonda once again hosted the commemoration of Carlo Giuliani, the protester killed on 20 July 2001 during the clashes of that day. As every year, the square fell silent at 5:27 pm, the time when Giuliani was fatally struck by a bullet fired by a carabiniere aboard a Celere vehicle. The carabiniere, Mario Placanica, was subsequently cleared by the judiciary.

Flowers and two fire extinguishers were placed on the memorial stone bearing the plaque dedicated to Carlo Giuliani, a symbolic object already used in previous editions of the commemoration. The square was filled with participants, including the mayor of Genoa Silvia Salis, who stressed the importance of an institutional presence on this occasion and recalled the issues raised at the time by the anti-globalization movement, describing them as still relevant today.

Elena Giuliani, Carlo's sister, addressed the crowd, calling for the institutions to take responsibility for the management of public order during the G8 days, so that similar episodes do not recur. She also extended the remembrance to other victims, citing the names of children killed in Gaza and having a large shroud with their names opened. Giuliani drew a parallel between her brother's memory and other cases of death linked to law enforcement interventions, including that of Federico Aldrovandi, known as Fakir, suggesting a continuity between the events of 2001 and later situations.

Also present was Claudia Pinelli, daughter of Giuseppe Pinelli, who reflected on the recurrence of deaths attributable to state interventions. Peppino Coscione, of the Piazza Carlo Giuliani Committee and one of Giuliani's teachers, remembered him as a generous and idealistic young man, describing him as someone who stood up to abuses of power.

Lena Zühlke, at the time a student and among those arrested at the Diaz school on the night of 21-22 July 2001, recounted her experience: she was beaten during the police raid on the school, sustaining injuries such that she was described as having her face covered in blood. Twenty-five years later she stated she does not forgive that night, while expressing hope in public squares as places of possibility.

The judicial rulings following the G8 events established the acquittal of carabiniere Placanica on grounds of self-defense, while convictions for the violence at the Diaz school and the Bolzaneto barracks involved several members of the police forces. The toll of the Genoa G8 days included over six hundred injured among protesters and law enforcement.