Police Headquarters: "IoApro event not authorized" but organizers decided to take to the streets
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April 12, 2021
The armored historic center of Rome as it hasn't been seen for some time and thousands of people have already gathered in Piazza San Silvestro.
Many of them without a mask.
It is the protest of the restaurateurs enclosed under the abbreviation 'IoApro', who have gathered people from all over Italy.
The aim of the demonstrators - who chant choirs against the Government and Prime Minister Draghi - to reach Piazza Montecitorio in a procession.
The square was banned by the Police Headquarters because a demonstration involving 100 people is already planned.
Hundreds of police in riot gear are manning all the access alleys to the square.
Tensions are therefore feared, with the demonstrators who immediately made it clear that "they do not want to give up the right to demonstrate", after the 48-hour ultimatum for the reopening of bars and restaurants.
However, the demonstration is not authorized, the organizers' ploy is in fact to join another protest sit-in that currently has just about ten participants.
A thousand people gathered in Piazza San Silvestro, a stone's throw from Palazzo Chigi.
The delegation from Sicily, which from this morning on social networks denounced the police who prevented them from traveling, has just arrived in the square among the choirs of the people.
Meanwhile, the Rome Police Headquarters makes it known that the words of the Florentine restaurateur Mohamed El Hawi are void of any foundation. car. There are thousands and thousands of policemen following us. "
No response from the Police Headquarters, at the moment even on the presence of "7,000 people already in Rome", as declared on Facebook by the restaurateur himself.