There were clashes between young people and the police in Rome on Saturday evening. Eight officers were injured. Young people with a migrant background in particular are currently taking to the streets in Italy to demonstrate against police brutality.
The riots broke out during a demonstration for Ramy Elgaml, a 19-year-old of Egyptian descent who was killed in a car chase with carabinieri in Milan on November 24.
Several hundred people gathered in the San Lorenzo neighborhood for a rally organized by left-wing parties and student groups. The situation quickly came to a head: the demonstrators threw smoke bombs at a supermarket and then Molotov cocktails at the police vehicles. The police responded with baton attacks. Protests also arose in other parts of Italy.
Meloni condemns attacks on police officers
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the attacks on police. She complained of “unrest and chaos caused by the usual troublemakers who took to the streets purely out of revenge.”
“You can’t use tragedy to justify violence. Our solidarity goes out to the police and we wish the injured police officers a speedy recovery. We are on your side,” the Prime Minister wrote on social media about the protests in Rome.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi stressed that attacks on law enforcement “must be strongly condemned.” He added that the right to demonstrate “can never be used as a pretext for acts of violence, intimidation or challenging the authority of the state.” Parliament President Lorenzo Fontana also expressed his “solidarity with the officials” and called the aggression against them “unacceptable.”
The carabinieri are suspected of deliberately crashing the young man’s motorcycle during a chase. The teenager died from his injuries. As a result, protests and demonstrations by young people with a migrant background broke out across Italy.
Source: Krone
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