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Roma – The first occurred in Rome riots between demonstrators and police, who intervened to disperse the crowd with the help of armored vehicles. Between two thousand unauthorized demonstrators in piazza del Popolo there are also the neofascists of Casapound (who announced the presence “without symbols”) and of Forza Nuova, including the local leader Giuliano Castellino: “Right now I couldn’t be here, I’m under the regime special surveillance, but I couldn’t not be there, ”he admits candidly. “Today we are thousands and thousands who risk more than special surveillance. They still call us conspiracy theorists, we have gone from lockdowns to mandatory masks, now they have come to this havoc. You are experiencing anhealth apartheid. We invite everyone to raise one great flag, the tricolor of liberty“. In the square a boy waves the Italian flag and one invites to the microphone to rebel against the government measures: at regular intervals “Libertà” chants rise and against Prime Minister Draghi and virologists.
“It’s a free square, without colors”They repeat. Angelo, restaurateur, points out that “we are not against the vaccine, but we believe that this measure damages the economy. I have a restaurant and I have few outdoor seats. With this measure many will fail“. “Today the green pass is valid for restaurants, it is valid with a vaccination dose. And a vaccine dose gives no coverage. What mockery is this? ” says a participant who however – unlike many others – wears a mask. “I have not been vaccinated and I will not do that – adds a retired – they cannot force us ”. Among the signs on display there is also one that reads “No to vaccines made with animal brothers”. Other examples: “I’ll never get injected with a experimental serum to please one sick society“,” No green pass, yes home care “,” turn off the TV, turn on the brain“. Some of the demonstrators have left the square and are heading towards the headquarters through Porta Flaminia Rai of viale Mazzini.
Milano – The procession of Milan’s no green passes, which has come to count thousands of people, paraded through the streets of the city center with the demonstrators who – here too – shouted “freedom, freedom”: in the head one banner with the words “Big Pharma out of the state. No to multinationals “. Stars of David are seen with the words “unvaccinated = Jews”, while in a sign the pass is compared to the swastika: yet another portrays the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, dressed in a Nazi uniform and the inscription: “obey, get the vaccine!”. The crowd, starting from Piazza Fontana, crossed Piazza Duomo and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele under the bewildered gazes of those who were shopping, and then stop in Piazza della Scala in front of Marino palace – the city hall of Milan – where the demonstrators chanted rhythmic choirs “We go where we want“And” no green pass “, as well as insults against the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi. Afterwards the procession, singing the hymn of Mameli, returned to Piazza Duomo and finally moved in front of the courthouse, in corso di Porta Vittoria, which was closed to traffic. At the start of the parade, some tensions with the press were seen: the participants tried to drive away the journalists, calling them “Sold”.
Florence / Naples – Two events are taking place in Florence: one, authorized, in the gardens of the Fortezza da Basso with about 2 thousand participants; the other spontaneous, with hundreds of people who met in Piazza della Signoria. When the police invited them to move to the neighbor piazza san Firenze, some of them sat on the ground, hindering passing tourists. Among the banners spotted, “Green pass? No thanks. I decide on my body“And” For a true democracy! That it does not foment hatred, that it respects dissent ”. In the Campania capital, however, they found themselves in Piazza Dante two hundred people about, gathered spontaneously by answering a call from social networks, to the cry of “Freedom” and “No green pass”. “The green pass is a problem of instrument, it is not suitable to counter Covid “: argues a protester. “Do not get vaccinated, because there are treatments and there always have been,” says a girl. “Why do vaccinated people still wear masks? I want to die by the hand of God and not of men. I will never get vaccinated, ”declares another demonstrator. Here, too, the garrison quickly evolved into an unauthorized procession, which reached – escorted by the police – Piazza Municipio singing chants against Prime Minister Draghi and in favor of vaccination freedom.
The contrary voices – “It is a pity that there are people who believe that the Green pass is a deprivation of freedom”, comments the virologist of the State University of Milan, Fabrizio Pregliasco. “Everyone’s freedom, it is well known and it is trivial to remember, it ends where another’s freedom begins. No nation allows you to go by car at 300 per hour because you risk having an accident and hurting yourself and others ”. The compulsory Green pass in some places – he underlines – is “an option that aims to make us more serene and supportive. I enter a restaurant, I show that I am attentive to my health and that of those around me “. On the political front, the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta stated that “every demonstration against the green pass is a demonstration against reopening, against freedom, we must say this with great force. The government has made a commitment to vaccinate the majority of Italians and ensure that this is the condition for freedom. For group leader in the Senate of Forza Italia Annamaria Bernini, on the other hand, “getting vaccinated means putting yourself in safety and laying the foundations for definitively exiting the pandemic. The green pass is therefore exactly the opposite of one illiberal tool, and the No Pass people must be sensitized with the force of reason, and not ridden, because if the objective of herd immunity is failed on schedule, the strong recovery in progress of the economy and the reopening of schools would be jeopardized. in total presence “.
Comparison (Italexit): “Protest is a new wind” – “I am absolutely against the new Draghi decree. And I believe the Prime Minister’s words on vaccines are an act of cowardice“, Lets know Gianluigi Paragone, former M5S senator and founder of the anti-EU Italexit movement. “If, as Draghi says, the appeal not to be vaccinated coincides with killing, then why is it not compulsory? As head of government he should have the responsibility to make the vaccine mandatory and not to ask for an indemnity from those who are vaccinated, otherwise it means that what they are saying is not true and I believe it is so. Yesterday I was in Piazza Duomo in Milan – he adds – where a spontaneous gathering, to demonstrate against the obligation of the Green pass. Today I will most likely be in Varese. Many will participate, even vaccinated who still consider the Green pass an illiberal act, of arrogance by the Government. The demonstrations will be many, little by little the tide will rise, it is a new wind“. On the same wavelength the deputy of the League Claudio Borghi: “If Draghi is convinced that unvaccinated citizens die, assuming that this is true but this is not the case because scientific data prove it, I wonder what the Prime Minister is waiting for to impose a vaccination obligation”, he provokes.
The next demonstrations – Other initiatives are also planned in the coming days. The Free choice committee, which calls itself a “committee of free citizens, non-partisan and apolitical, open to anyone who intends to support full freedom of choice in health matters”, has already launched a torchlight procession, also in Piazza del Popolo in Rome: “Who keeps silent consents. If you too are against the obligation of the green pass, now is the time to prove it ”. On Thursday evening, in Turin, several hundred people had already taken to the streets. “We were the fuse that detonated one time bomb, it was time ”, said one of the promoters, Marco Liccione. “The influx of people and the disagreement manifested towards their choices, and since power belongs to the people in a democracy, should, I believe, make the political forces reflect on their work”.
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