Guerrilla warfare at pro-Pal march, right to ban it-Tajani

Piantedosi was right, assault on cops says FM

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Oct 12 2024
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Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in Rome resulted in "guerrilla warfare" in which 34 police were hurt thus showing Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi was right to have banned it, although 5,000 demonstrators ignored the ban, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antionio Tajani said on a visit to Argentina Monday.
    "What happened in Rome at the pro-PAL demonstrations is incredible and has nothing to do with the freedom to demonstrate and express one's ideas"," Tajani said at a press briefing in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of a meeting with Latin American ambassadors.
    "It has been shown that Minister Piantedosi was right to choose the path of banning demonstrations that were violent. I don't think we can talk about infiltrators, there was a strategy to wage guerrilla warfare and there was an assault on the police".
    As well as the 34 officers who were targeted by thrown stones, paper bombs and a road sign, four protesters were hurt including a young woman with head injuries.
    Police said the march was infiltrated by hundreds of Black Block agitators.