Processions, searches in 13 cities due to violence, including against minors

New day of demonstrations in many Italian cities, new wave of searches.

In at least 13 cities across Italy, Digos agents showed up at the doors of at least 50 people, including several minors, because they were considered among the promoters and instigators of the violence that occurred during the demonstrations of recent weeks. In Bologna, three adults, aged between 30 and 60, were searched, all without specific precedents and never reported for similar episodes, but the operations turned out to be a failure. Same situation in Milan: three people searched, all with negative results. At the moment, it is not clear whether they have led to concrete results in the rest of the cities.

In the meantime, reports of armored city centers and large concentrations of law enforcement are arriving from several cities. In the afternoon, mobilizations are planned in Milan, with a procession for Palestine and against rearmament and in Turin, against the high cost of living and the cost of weapons convened by Turin in the square and university collectives. In Rome, eco-activists, but not only, take to the streets with the Climate Parade / Climate Pride, a procession for climate and social justice, promoted by over 80 acronyms including WWF, Legambiente, Libera, Link and Movimento Studenti Palestiniani. Maximum attention is on Parma, where "a procession for remigration" has been authorized by Casa Pound, Rete dei Patrioti and Veneto Fronte Skinheads, who announce the presence of at least two thousand people, against whom parties, unions, associations and social centers will march in protest, who will be in the square with a counter-procession. In Trieste, where for weeks there have been protests against the lack of assistance for people in transit from the Balkan route, many of the associations met, not from the North East, but from all over Italy.

Entirely similar operations, on the eve or following the marches and demonstrations, took place on Saturday 24 and 31 October. Close to a day of national demonstrations, on 24 October the Police carried out over 150 searches between Milan, Monza and 20 other cities (mainly in Lombardy).