76 GIULIANI AND GAGGIO v. ITALY JUDGMENT such an application and it had been refused, the applicants had seen no point in making the request. 290. The public prosecutor had also decided to entrust a significant part of the investigation to the carabinieri, and in particular to the Genoa provincial command and the mobile brigade of the Genoa questura. In particular, the carabinieri had: – seized M.P.'s weapon and certified that it had a magazine containing fewer than fifteen rounds of ammunition; – carried out the initial inspection of Carlo Giuliani's body and of the jeeps; – seized one of the jeeps and the material inside it, including a spent cartridge; – compiled photographic evidence of the equipment which M.P. had at the time of the events; – acquired, checked and examined the audiovisual material relating to the events of 20 July 2001; – drawn up the records of some of the statements made to the public prosecutor. 291. The applicants further stressed that immediately after Carlo Giuliani's death, M.P., D.R. and F.C. had left the scene (with the jeep and weapons) and had been absent until the public prosecutor had begun hearing evidence several hours later. They had had an interview with their superior officers and had been able to communicate among themselves before being questioned by the public prosecutor. Moreover, D.R. had not given evidence until the day after the events and some of the law-enforcement officers present at the scene had been questioned only after a considerable delay (Captain Cappello had made a statement on 11 September 2001 and his deputy Zappia on 21 December 2001). 292. In the applicants' view, several carabinieri and police officers, and the questore himself, should have been placed under investigation in the judicial proceedings concerning Carlo Giuliani's death. The Genoa questura had played a “major” role in the planning, organisation and management of the public-order operations during the G8 summit. The Genoa questore was the most senior official responsible for public order, the police control centre had been run by the questura and officers from the latter had issued and carried out orders to intervene against the Tute Bianche march. To guarantee the independence and impartiality of the investigation the public prosecutor should have entrusted it to the revenue police (Guardia di finanza), a branch of the police which was not implicated in the events. (ii) The Government 293. The Government submitted that the investigation had been conducted with the requisite promptness. The judicial authority had spared no effort in seeking to establish the facts and had deployed the most