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Italy’s Meloni Condemns Violence After Protests Turn Violent Across Several Cities

Meloni praised peaceful demonstrators while urging opposition leaders to denounce violence after clashes left dozens injured and led to arrests in several cities.

  • On Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned violent demonstrations that erupted Saturday across Milan, Turin, and Bologna, stating that while peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy, destruction and attacks on security forces are unacceptable.
  • Demonstrations organized by the "Italy in the Square" committee protested soaring inflation, low wages, and deteriorating public services, with student-led mobilization in Milan alone drawing more than 5,000 participants to the streets.
  • In Milan, scenes described by Rai News as "urban warfare" saw violent agitators smash windows and launch pyrotechnics at State Police along Via Broletto, resulting in approximately 12 hospitalizations and around 50 detentions.
  • Meloni urged rival political parties to condemn the violence and ensure future demonstrations remain peaceful, insisting that "silence is not acceptable" regarding attacks on police and property damage across Italian cities.
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The Public Prosecutor's Office disputes aggravated resistance, devastation and looting. In the police station 271 people, including 220 minors. Injured 14 agents, damage in the historic center

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The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has requested the validation of the arrest and detention in prison for the five adults, boys between 18 and 20 years old, arrested on Saturday for the urban guerrilla in downtown. (ANSA)

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On Saturday, protests took place in several Italian cities (Turin, Bologna, Milan), which turned violent. The worst was in Milan, where dozens of rioters were arrested after the outbreak of a “guerrilla war”. Stones, smoke bombs, fireworks and Molotov cocktails were the weapons of the young hooligans who flocked to Milan. Among the so-called […] The post Left-Islamist rampage spreads like wildfire through countries with high levels of migration …

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Another hotbed of unrest in Europe is northern Italy. In Milan, a protest against rising living costs turned violent and looting over the weekend. Fires broke out right outside the famous Milan Cathedral, and violence and theft hit several shops in the city center. Police arrested over 200 people, most of them under 18.

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They show assaults and looting shops, burning baskets, clashes with the police and in general much chaos

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It was supposed to be the day in which Milan raised its head after the urban guerrilla battle that Saturday turned Piazza Duomo into a battlefield. Walking through the streets of the center, you had the impression of crossing a battlefield when the clashes are over and the fog begins to thin: some people around, [...] L'articolo The Sunday of guerrilla in Milan: the stops rise to 200, 80% are minor. There are also 12 years old comes from Il Fatt…

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