Milan luxury shops close for fear of new unrest as government prepares to deploy troops
The measure adds tougher penalties for violent protest and extends military support as officials seek to curb looting and clashes.
- On Monday, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced 500 army troops will reinforce Milan, with a Cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday to approve the deployment.
- Initially peaceful demonstrations on October 17 over rising living costs and poor public services escalated as hooded groups clashed with police, set bins ablaze, and looted shops including Decathlon and Vodafone.
- Luxury retailers on Via Montenapoleone removed merchandise and closed early Monday, while police detained 271 young people in Milan on Sunday and arrested 32 of them, including 23 minors.
- The government's emergency decree extends preventive detention for minors to 12 hours and allows deferred arrests based on video footage to address youth gang violence.
- Opposition leader Giuseppe Conte of the Five Star Movement criticized the security-first approach, arguing it ignores underlying economic grievances as authorities prepare for further protests on Saturday.
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The Italian Meloni government fears that large groups of young people will riot and loot shops again on Saturday. It already happened last weekend in Turin, Bologna, and particularly Milan.
After the brutal riots in Milan, left-wing radicals and militant Israeli haters are trying to arrest the violent youths for their political goals. Shops have been looted, around 90 policemen have had medical supplies, and 35 minors have been arrested. A new protest network is already celebrating the looting as "proletarian expropriation." While attacks on policemen and arsons are being discussed in relevant chats, Giorgia Meloni sends 500 paratr…
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MichaelSavage.com – Italian PM Meloni Announces Measures to Combat Violent Riots and Looting: Half of the 330 People Arrested and Detained Are of ‘Foreign Background’
While French President Emmanuel Macron, unsurprisingly, chose to blame his fellow French citizens for the violent Islamo-Marxist riots tearing through his country and spreading across Europe. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, however, is calling the rioters exactly what they are….thugs. Originally framed as ‘student’ protests that ignited over so-called crowded classrooms and teacher shortages, the…
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A barricade of cardboards and trash is set on fire as demonstrators clash with Police during an anti-government protest organized by the Italia in Piazza movement, at Piazza Duomo in Milan, on October 17, 2026. Inspired by recent protests in France and Spain, demonstrators are protesting against the rising cost of living, low wages, high rents and public service shortcomings, demanding better living and working conditions. (Photo by Piero CRUCIA…
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