Ultras, right-wing militants but above all twenty-year-olds from the suburbs without any strategic planning. This was the composition of the protesters who stormed the center of Milan last night in the wake of the protests against the anti Covid measures that are spreading throughout the country. On the street there were no precise political acronyms but even with the masks and hoods, exponents of various right-wing groups were recognizable who, especially in the first phase along Corso Buenos Aires, had a role of coordination and management of the square.
Protests against anti Covid measures in Milan, 28 denounced. Among them also 13 minors
27 October 2020-
When the younger ones started throwing barriers, overturning waste baskets and damaging the dehors of the premises, some “adults” literally slapped them and ordered them to stay in the ranks. “The shops don’t touch, we’re here for something else”, they shouted at various times. And if these internal antibodies weren’t there, the windows of the entire street would have been vandalized.
Milan, tensions after anti-restriction marches: demonstrators throw paper bombs
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As a sort of police service, some would pass to lift what had been shot down, to clear the road from the confusion left by the procession.
Tensions with the police in Milan, the demonstrators try the assault on the skyscraper of the Lombardy Region
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The real news of last night are the youngest, second or third generation North Africans who communicated in Arabic, charged each other in perfect Milanese and sang French slogans typical of the suburbs in a group. For many of them it was the first manifestation, they could not even distinguish tear gas from pepper spray. Yet it was the most active, violent and dangerous part because it was really unpredictable. To act as a link between the two worlds were the ultras, not only from Inter and Milan.
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