Guerrilla scenes up to the Montecitorio, seat of the Chamber, and Palazzo Chigi. Smoke bombs, paper bombs, choirs, flags of Italy and clashes with the police. The no-Vax and no Green pass demonstration, in view of the mandatory green certificate in the workplace from October 15, began in the early afternoon in Piazza del Popolo and continued through the streets of the historic center, from via del Corso in via Veneto, passing through Villa Borghese, sowing chaos.
Not only that: another group of demonstrators – headed by Giuliano Castellino, the Roman leader of Forza Nuova – headed to the CGIL headquarters in Corso d’Italia and, after breaking a window, asked to be able to speak with the secretary general of the workers’ union, Maurizio Landini. Then some troublemakers managed to enter and smashed the furniture on the ground floor. Meanwhile, the rest of the protesters in Piazza del Popolo continued to try to force the blockade of the police by throwing chairs at the agents. In Piazza Barberini, in Via del Tritone and Largo Chigi there were clashes with tear gas and paper bombs.
Green Pass, protests also under the House and Senate
The target of the sit-in, which then turned into an unauthorized procession, was the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi. “It is an unprecedented infamy,” some say. “Freedom, freedom, freedom …”, answer others. “People like us never give up”, they add. And the center of the capital, militarized with armored vehicles and police in riot gear, becomes the scene of a clash with charges of relieving agents and opposition from the demonstrators. “Let’s not be divided”, answer the many who took to the streets. There are about 10 thousand people, the initials in Piazza del Popolo, several hundred descended during the procession. “We are 100 thousand. Today we stop the green certificate. The strength of the square against sanitary tyranny, the strength of the people against invented emergencies”, Castellino told AGI shortly before the tensions.
“They charged us, we were hit by a police armored vehicle,” says the Forza Nuova leader. Massimo Ursino, leader of the Sicilian fraction of the far-right movement, was also injured, as reported by Castellino. This reconstruction does not appear at the Rome police headquarters which, in the evening, underlines that “the public order devices are managing the various demonstrations in which violence is used ‘with interventions proportionate to the actions of the demonstrators'”. “They were used – he adds – tear gas and fire hydrants to disperse violent groups”. The toll of the clashes is at least three arrested while a policeman was injured. Tafferugli also registered in Milan where 5 thousand demonstrated clashing with the police. Policemen and carabinieri have rejected an attempt to enter the central station. After the lightening charge in via Vitruvio, the protesters reached Piazza Duca d’Aosta and there were new tensions.