Clashes in Naples between the police and young people opposed to the curfew

Coronavirus: Clashes erupt in Naples between police and anti-curfew protesters -

Clashes between the police and hundreds of demonstrators in Naples Friday evening protesting against the night curfew and the threat of new confinement to curb the outbreak of coronavirus contamination.

At around 11 p.m., at the start of the curfew which runs until 5 a.m. each night in Campania, the Naples region, several hundred people, often young, lit smoke bombs, set bins on fire and threw projectiles at the police. riot control deployed in the city center.

Fear of economic consequences

Calls had been launched on social networks to challenge the curfew decreed from Friday evening in Campania, and also in force in Lazio, the region of Rome, and in Lombardy, the region of Milan (north).

"If you close, you pay", could we read on makeshift signs brandished by demonstrators worried about the economic consequences of the curfew and a new confinement that the president of the region of Naples, Vincenzo De Luca, has announced wanting to impose as soon as possible.

"We are on the verge of tragedy, we need a

national

", alarmed Vincenzo De Luca while Italy has recorded nearly 20,000 new positive cases for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, including 2,300 in Campania.

A frightening re-containment

If scientists and regional governors urge him to take urgent measures, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says he is currently opposed to a new generalized containment.

Italy, which the spring containment precipitated in its worst post-war economic recession, has recorded nearly 500,000 positive cases since the start of the pandemic, including 37,059 deaths, according to figures from the Ministry of Health released on Friday .

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