Clashes Milan, Sala: "The arrival of the military is good". The youngest identified is 11 years old

This morning in Milan the meeting was held in the prefecture on public order and safety, after the devastation of 17 and 18 October in the city centre. "I want to say without ambiguity that first of all in this critical phase comes the control and repression of these phenomena", said the mayor Giuseppe Sala. "I don't want to risk being ambiguous - he added -, I'm not at all against the fact that 500 soldiers arrive, they will also have a dynamic role", clarified the mayor. The Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, instead underlined: "Nothing will go unpunished, not only thanks to the security decree" approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers. The message is that those who want to return to Milan to plunder will not get away with it." While the Minister of the Interior, Piantedosi, clarified that it is "a new and complex phenomenon that must be addressed in a new way". And he guaranteed that, for next Saturday, there will be a "targeted planning of the forces in the territory", to avoid urban guerrilla warfare again. The military? "They will have maximum mobility in the territory, as already happens" in other cities such as Rome.

Sala: "Saturday will be a delicate day"

And on the fears linked to next Saturday, October 24, with the risk of further devastation, Mayor Sala confirmed that "there is concern, because the issue is that it is feared that there is someone in the square who resembles those who were in the square over the weekend, someone who will fight this presence, and then the anarchists". "So Saturday could be a delicate day for the city - he underlined -, I don't want to make invitations to citizens and say 'everyone stay at home', but Saturday could be a delicate day". Furthermore "it will be the first test to understand if we will be able to manage things differently", he concluded.

In Milan the youngest identified is 11 years old

Meanwhile, thanks to the videos that have gone viral on social media, in which we see the very young people who took part in last weekend's riots, the police have identified two minors. One of them, an 11-year-old boy (traced in his school in the Barona district), Italian, is the youngest among those identified. A sixteen-year-old was also identified in Desio, Brianza. The youngest, who is in seventh grade, apparently entered a shop on Sunday during the looting in the centre. In a video on Instagram he is seen leaving the exercise with several belts. The sixteen-year-old, however, was filmed on Saturday with an Army hat on his head. Devastation, looting, theft and contempt of the Armed Forces are alleged against him.