Hundreds of people took to the streets today. Rome, Milan, Naples and other Italian cities to support the Palestinian people, despite the ban by the authorities to prevent the demonstrations from coinciding with the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust.
The concentration of Milan (north) gathered about a thousand participants, while at least half a thousand They gathered in the capital and a few hundred in Naples, who decided to rebel and not comply with the organizers’ decision to postpone the protests until tomorrow.
Several police vehicles blocked access to the Milanese square of Loreto, where protesters, mostly from the group “Palestinian Youth”, who had already announced his intention to break the ban, chanted cries of “Intifada”, although peacefully, local media report.
In the central square Vitorius of Romewith numerous Palestinian flags, the protesters turned the protest into a sit-in and did not march on foot to the square. San Juanas planned before the ban issued this Friday by “safety reasons”.
“Enough of complicity with the Zionist occupation. No to commercial and military relations between Italy and Israel” reads one of the banners displayed by the participants, mostly students and sympathizers of the Palestinian cause, who insisted that their objective is to “call for an end to the bombings” in Gaza and for Italy to “take a step back” in its support for Israel.
The Rome Police Headquarters notified this Friday the “Palestinian Student Movement in Italy”organizer of the march, that, under the directives issued by the Department of Public Safety, the initiative had to be held on another date, which was accepted “a reluctant”.
“It is extremely serious that the Jewish community changes a decision already made by the competent authority that had authorized the march. It is a decision that increases anger“lamented the president of the organizing group, Maya issa, what did he say “not being able to guarantee that there will not be people who go out into the streets tomorrow.”
In Naples (south) several hundred participated in a sit-in with flags and posters in support of the population of Loop in it Holocaust Memorial Day so that “the memory of a genocide serves everyone.”
The protest took place peaceablyalthough due to the prohibition the historic center of the city was armored by law enforcement, according to the same sources.
Following the complaint from the Jewish community in Italy, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosiasked the Government delegates to prohibit the demonstrations, since “The risk of substantially undermining the value attributed to the January 27 celebrations is too great.”
