Armored squares: tensions in Turin, Milan and Bologna. In Rome the entrance to Termini station is closed

Young people in the streets throughout Italy, armored cities, widespread searches, while preventive arrests are triggered. In Rome, 43 young people were taken to the police station after they were found in possession of balaclavas, gloves, masks and keffiyeh. High tension in particular in Turin between protesters and law enforcement, but also in Bologna and Florence. In Rome some protesters entered the Colosseum.

After the clashes and devastation of last weekend in Milan, from Turin to Milan, passing through Rome and arriving at Castel Volturno, the protests in the streets have returned: against the war, rearmament, the high cost of living and the CPR. “Free zones will not be possible and the State's response will be immediate against anyone who thinks they can organize attacks and riots believing they can hide behind a balaclava or the anonymity of social media,” Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi wrote on X.

In Rome, moments of tension at the Colosseum, with protesters who managed to enter, only to be rejected by the police. The unauthorized procession of young people, which is crossing the streets of the capital, has reached the Termini station area and the entrance to the railway station in via Giolitti has been closed.

There are over 10 thousand demonstrators who are marching through the streets of Milan in the procession against the high cost of living. The demonstration started from Largo Cairoli and was called a week after the clashes that involved the Lombardy capital. The pro-Palestine march joined near Corso Venezia, starting from Piazza Leonardo da Vinci. In Corso Venezia, during the passage of the demonstrators, a League sign was burned. Tensions were recorded, with a few thousand demonstrators, mostly university students, who clashed with the police in Corso Venezia. Some truncheons were fired and the procession was blocked in via Borghetto. Then the two spontaneous marches reunited. While the largest, with several thousand people, started from Lanza and paraded along the Bastioni, the second from Città Studi headed towards the centre. Both the access to Corso Buenos Aires, an important commercial artery, and that to Corso Venezia, which leads to the center, are blocked by armored vehicles.