• "I can't breathe": Piazza del Popolo on his knees for Floyd
  • Antiracist America finds itself on the march
  • The "systemic racism" behind the clashes over the death of George Floyd
  • Death Floyd. Pope: "Don't close your eyes on racism, but no violence"

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08 June 2020About 3,000 people, according to the prefecture of Madrid, gathered at noon in front of the American embassy in Madrid to report George Floyd's death by repeating his last words: "I can't breathe" and shouting the slogan "I can't is peace without justice ".

In Rome, an unscheduled demonstration in Piazza del Popolo brought together thousands of young men who knelt in silence, raising their fists for nine minutes, the time during which the policeman Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck until to kill him. When they got up, they shouted, "I can't breathe!" In Milan, the sit-in has turned into a procession.

Thousands of Britons demonstrated in London for the second consecutive day, but also in other cities in the United Kingdom, despite the ban on the authorities. In Bristol, a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was overturned and then trampled on by the demonstrators once it fell to the ground. During the 'black lives matter' protests in London, the Winston Churchill memorial in Westminster was smeared. The Evening Standard reports it. In the afternoon, some demonstrators scribbled: "he was a racist" on the Churchill statue. 

Madrid protesters also knelt on the ground and raised their fists. They then marched peacefully to the Puerta del Sol in the heart of the capital. Demonstrations took place in a dozen cities.

In Brussels, nearly 10,000 demonstrators, according to police, expressed their anger outside the courthouse. The police intervened after the demonstration to disperse a group of 150 people implicated in vandalism. 

Thousands of people marched against racism also in the Netherlands, in the north in Zwolle and in Maastricht in the south. 

In Germany, players from four Bundesliga clubs knelt Sunday in the wake of what Bayern, Dortmund and Borussia Moenchengladbach players did on Sunday. Thousands of Swiss dressed in black marched to Lausanne, where the signs proclaimed "My color is not a threat". 

In Copenhagen, approximately 15,000 people, according to police estimates, demonstrated peacefully to urge the Danish government to report violence against the black community in the United States. By chanting the name of George Floyd - and with some signs bearing the words "Black lives matter" - the procession left the American embassy in the early afternoon for the royal palace in Christiansborg. 

In Sweden, almost 2,000 people gathered in Goeteborg, but the demonstration - which had been authorized - was quickly dissolved due to the limitation of the gatherings to 50 people in the country for health reasons. 

In Budapest, more than a thousand people gathered near the American embassy, ​​observing eight minutes of silence or denouncing "police everywhere, justice nowhere".