ITALY
A energized cluster in the south of the country. New riot police reinforcements were sent to a locality in southern Italy on Friday, where the appearance of a coronavirus outbreak among foreign workers has been causing incidents for several days.
Some 700 people, most of them Bulgarians employed in the agricultural sector, have been confined since Monday to Mondragone, a locality 60 km north-west of Naples, after the discovery of 43 cases of contamination among them. Illegally occupying a complex of five buildings, they were ordered to remain confined to the site for a fortnight, while screening tests are underway throughout the neighborhood.
On Thursday morning, a group of dozens of people broke through the confinement cord for a protest march in the city, causing tension and scuffles with residents, who threw stones at them. Several vehicles belonging to Bulgarian residents were damaged, their windows broken by Italian residents who displayed their foreign license plates like a trophy, according to images broadcast by Italian television. An occupant of the building also threw a chair from the floors on the crowd massed on the forecourt.
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