Students protest, occupied institutions from Milan to Naples. 17-year-old arrested in Turin

After France, student protests also flare up in Italy. At the end of the day, the toll was dozens of institutions occupied from Milan to Naples, damage to some buildings, clashes between young people from the right and left, young people searched by the Digos in view of the next demonstrations. The greatest tensions were recorded in Turin, where a group of forty young people - with their faces covered by Carnival masks and balaclavas - raided some schools: when the carabinieri arrived, some members of the group threw stones and a soldier was injured. A 17-year-old was arrested for resisting a public official and reported for aggravated damage, while dozens of other young people were identified. The protests ignited on the eve of the national strike on 16 October, organized by the Alternative Student Opposition (OSA) movement, entitled "No Meloni Day" against the Valditara decree, the high cost of living, the high fuel prices, the reform of technical and professional institutes, to ask for funding for public schools and not the war.

The protests in Turin

Although the protests affected several cities, the greatest tensions were recorded in Turin. Here, as mentioned, around forty young people made an incursion with their faces covered into three schools: the Sella high school, the Ricardi di Netro elementary school and the Bosso-Monti institute. When the police arrived, some members of the group apparently threw stones at them: one soldier was injured, with a prognosis of ten days.

A 17 year old arrested, others identified

During the tensions in Turin, a 17-year-old boy was arrested for resisting a public official and reported for aggravated damage. Another 27 young people, however, were identified by the police and carabinieri: seven of them, some with their faces covered, were stopped while trying to force their way into a school in the centre. In the north-west area of ​​the city, the police blocked the fourth attempt to enter a school by about a hundred children who did not belong to the institute. The police also identified some students, aged between 16 and 20, suspected of being the promoters of the disturbances of recent days in a high school, Peano, during which furniture and computers were damaged.

See also

Student protests in France, clashes in Paris. Thunberg among protesters