Battle in the streets of Turin. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni thunders about “enemies of the state”
According to Italian media reports, approximately 15,000 people took part in Saturday's demonstration. people who opposed the decision to close the Askatasuna center, which has been operating for three decades. At some point, a group of aggressive participants broke away from the main crowd. Demonstrators attacked police officers using bottles, flares, stones, smoke candles and metal pipes, and then tried to break through the police cordon. There were serious street clashes, as confirmed by recordings published by local media.
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Riots in Turin. Giorgia Meloni condemned the protesters
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticized the protesters in a statement published on social media.
Battle in the streets of Turin. 15,000 people protested peoplePAP/EPA/Alessandro Di Marco
“We are not dealing with demonstrators, but with individuals who act as enemies of the state. The forces of order who have to face a real street battle, as well as some journalists doing their job, are paying for it,” we read in the post on the X platform.
As the head of government assessed, it was “blind and deliberate violence”. She also emphasized that defending legality “is not a provocation, but an obligation.”
This is how she commented on the closure of the Askatasuna center in connection with ongoing investigations into protests and attacks on institutions. One of them was carried out last year on the editorial office of the “La Stampa” daily.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said: – What happened in Turin confirms who the perpetrators of violence are and who poses a real threat to civil coexistence and our democracy; they are antagonists – guests of illegally occupied social centers that also have political support.
