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The new measures ordering Italian restaurants and bars to close from 6 p.m., shutting down cinemas and gyms and imposing local curfews in several regions of the country were met with protests ...
Officers charged the protesters after they tried to breach a police cordon. Members of a far-right political group joined the business owners in the protest, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
In Milan, a photo of Meloni was splashed with blood-red paint during a rally, while protesters in Rome chanted slogans including “Every day is a No-Meloni day.” Responding to the violent scenes in Turin, Meloni said: “Today too we witnessed unacceptable scenes of violence and chaos in some squares by the usual troublemakers.”
On the afternoon the Rome protests turned violent, as hundreds of hooded protesters [5] [6] arrived on the scene and broke away from the otherwise peaceful demonstration, setting cars and a police van on fire, smashing bank windows and clashed with police.
In the first moments of the student protest, the right wing in the universities were among the movement's leaders. The Battle of Valle Giulia at Rome University on 1 March 1968 was the last action in which left- and right-wing students were together because, on 16 March following the assault on the University La Sapienza , there was a gap ...
Shortly after protests seeking justice for George Floyd, an African American who was murdered during a police arrest, began in the United States, the people of Italy also began to protest to show solidarity with the Americans. [1] To protest, people knelt in piazzas all over Italy for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, spaced to respect the rules from ...
Thousands took to the streets in protest against the rule. [17] Protesters chanted: "No Green Pass!", "Down with the dictatorship!", or "Freedom!" A placard in Rome read: "Vaccines set you free" over a picture of the gates to Auschwitz. Some protesters in Genova even wore yellow Star of David badges stating their unvaccinated status. [18]
The movement arose in conjunction with the crisis of the extra-parliamentary organizations that led to social struggles in the years after the 1968, together with the so-called mass university: after the 1969 school reform, also young people from proletarian families could attend a university, which, until then, had been a privilege held almost exclusively by students from more affluent classes.