Security measures are being beefed up in Rome ahead of the two-day summit of G20 leaders, which begins early next week.
“It is a moment of great tension,” Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said Tuesday evening. Twenty years after the violence marred the G8 summit in the northern city of Genoa, and three weeks after coronavirus-related protests spiraled out of control in the Italian capital, the G20 hosts chose Strict security approach.
The arrangements include a heightened police presence with additional army reinforcements and extensive exclusion zones at the weekend. Large parts of the area around the conference center that will host the summit will be cordoned off from Friday, and no one will be allowed in without special permission.
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