Clashes in the square in Florence, Molotov cocktails against the police
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October 31, 2020Sale of the balance of those arrested for the clashes in Florence which at the moment would be at least twenty.
According to what has been learned, some officers were injured, reached by the throwing of stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails, during the unauthorized demonstration against the measures launched by the government.
Overall, according to a first estimate by the police, over a thousand people would have participated in the protests last night, moving in small groups that scattered around the historic center, creating unrest and clashing with the police.
During the riots in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, an underground dumpster was set on fire and the intervention of the fire brigade was necessary to put out the flames.
Nardella: "Those who disfigure Florence must pay for what they have done"
"They made us live a surreal, terrible and painful night in Florence. This is not how one's reasons manifest themselves, this is not how suffering is expressed. only violence as an end in itself, gratuitous. Those who disfigure Florence must pay for what they have done ".
Thus the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella.
Giani: "The citizens of Florence and Tuscany do not bow to violence"
The violence of a few troublemakers, clearly organized with cowardly anonymous flyers, has been opposed by the police to whom our strong and profound closeness and solidarity goes.
Maximum respect for workers, companies, businesses that have forcibly closed businesses and limited opening due to the pandemic, always in dialogue with them.
Tonight's little groups, probably from outside, have nothing to do with them.
The citizens of Florence and Tuscany certainly do not bow to violence but will be united to face the emergency together as our people have always done, with a spirit of community, in the most difficult moments of history! ".
Thus on Facebook the president of the Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, comments on the clashes that took place last night.