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29 October 2020 Still scenes of urban warfare.

The protests in all of Italy against the government measures to deal with the Covid emergency do not stop.

Last night in Palermo firecrackers were thrown at the police by members of the social centers.

The demonstrations convened in the Sicilian capital were two, one at the Quattro Canti, which was attended by a few hundred traders, and the other in Piazza Indipendenza, where a Forza Nuova garrison was present from the early afternoon.

"Any form of protest is welcome, even extreme but within the limits of legality. We are here, in the square, to invite Italians to civil disobedience", said Massimo Ursino, Palermo leader of the far-right movement and organizer and promoter of the Italia Libera committee.

A banner read "reopen or there will be trouble".

Participants were closely watched by the police.



The troubles, however, did not come from there, but from the other appointment, targeted by the social centers.

"If you close us, you pay us" was one of the banners that opened the sit-in organized by Palermo merchants and restaurateurs against the entry into force of the new Dpcm and to immediately ask for the suspension of taxes and aid to face the loss of income.

The demonstrators, about a hundred, then had to head towards Piazza Indipendenza to reach Palazzo d'Orleans, the seat of the Region, where the other demonstration organized by Forza Nuova took place.

The police forces, here too, had created a security cordon, effectively blocking the square.

Then, firecrackers, smoke bombs and police charges.



The procession, even before moving, suddenly turned into a clash between some members of the social centers and the agents in riot gear.

The police carried out charges and arrested two men, loaded into a service car.

The police chased the demonstrators of the social centers along Corso Vittorio Emanuele.

Then these sin are snuck into a side street making them lose their tracks in the narrow streets of the Vucciria market.

Along the way they ripped up baskets, flower boxes, benches.

A TV operator was injured.

After the first launch of firecrackers, a paper bomb hit the cameraman and exploded a few centimeters from the head: the man fell.

The 118 health workers intervened and provided the first treatment.

He was later transferred to the hospital.




Verona.

Firecrackers against agents during the demonstration


Same scene in Verona where far-right demonstrators - again to contest the measures contained in the latest Dpcm - threw firecrackers against the police who responded with tear gas.

The demonstrators, after a procession near the Arena, headed to Piazza delle Erbe, where the moments of tension began.



Lamorgese: "Objective to ensure the social stability of the country"


In recent days, moments of great tension - with complaints and arrests - have also been registered in other Italian cities.

From Rome to Naples, from Turin to Bari. The Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, explained yesterday in the Senate that "the common goal must be to ensure the social stability of the country".

And he added: "All the episodes have seen subjects at work who have nothing to do with the categories affected by the government measures".

The attacks and vandalism are attributable - explains the Interior Ministry - "to antagonist groups of the right and left, to exponents of ultras supporters and elements of crime" and "no obvious elements emerged on a single direction".

What is now clear is that the crisis situation due to the pandemic "is assuming an all-encompassing value with inevitable repercussions also on the profile of order and public safety", as Lamorgese herself explained in the classroom.



"We are aware of the difficulties that the emergency measures, both governmental and regional, have caused for Italians, especially for some categories - he added - but the government is constantly listening to the voices of unease".

During the disclosure, Lamorgese also stressed that the "situation in the country is being followed with the utmost attention".