Italian police fired tear gas to disperse an ‘agitated’ crowd that ‘invaded’ the cities of Torino and Milan to protest the latest round of restrictions to combat the new coronavirus pandemic.
Amidst heated spirits, with dozens of young people taking to the streets after dark with fireworks and colorful rockets, some luxury goods stores, including a Gucci fashion store, were looted in central Torino, reports The Guardian ‘. The police made several arrests.
He also responded with bursts of tear gas as he tried to disperse the crowd and calm the clashes in Milan, the capital of the neighboring region of Lombardy, the area that suffered the greatest impact from the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy.
“Freedom, freedom, freedom,” shouted the crowds as they faced the police in the center of the aforementioned Italian cities.
This unrest followed more peaceful demonstrations across Italy on Monday – including in Treviso, Trieste, Rome, Naples, Salerno and Palermo – and already following the Italian government’s announcement of new restrictive measures, ordering, for example, that bars and restaurants close at 6 pm and that public gyms, cinemas and swimming pools are also closed, in order to try to slow down a second wave of coronavirus infections that is affecting much of the country.
It should also be noted that there were also clashes on the streets of Spain, particularly in Barcelona, where hundreds of people gathered, on Monday night, to protest against the latest restrictions from the Spanish and Catalan governments, including the curfew from 10 pm to 6:00 am in effect in Catalonia since Sunday.
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