'Bro calm down, we are all against the cops': the chats of the suspects in the Milan riots

"Bro calm down, we're all against the cops." It is a phrase from the suspicious chat discovered on the phone of a suspect in connection with last weekend's riots in Milan and reported in the search carried out on some young people in the Lombardy capital. The decree speaks of a WhatsApp group with "numerous users", of "messages with instigative content, with explicit intentions of aggression and robbery against (...) the police" to steal "weapons supplied", damage "service" cars and set fire to buildings. Furthermore there are references to organizing a demonstration for today.

In the decree, also published on social media, regarding the chat identified as part of the investigations by the Monza Police Headquarters, it is also highlighted that one of the participants shared a video with images of "a gun from which the magazine was extracted and - we read in the document - the relevant cartridges were subsequently removed, accompanied by the significant wording "Preparation". Furthermore, messages emerged relating to a "further demonstration scheduled for 24 October 2026, potentially capable of attracting a very high number" of people, thus profiling "the risk of serious disorders and episodes of collective violence".

In total, over 150 police searches were carried out between Milan, Monza and 20 other cities, mainly in Lombardy, as part of investigative activities after last weekend's riots and they arose precisely from a chat traced in recent days by agents of the Monza Police Headquarters on a phone of one of the young protagonists.