The No Mask demo and deniers in Rome



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There are those who say that the real denier is the government, who change the focus on vaccines, who (many) invoke the sovereignty of the people and the currency, and there are also tensions with the police, especially after the Police Chief Franco Gabrielli has imposed absolute vigilance on compliance with the anti-covid rules: used mask and distance.

So he left, amid applause from the speakers on stage (Rosita Celentano, Diego Fusaro and Sara Cunial were expected, the sovereign lawyer Marco Mori came up, acclaimed), banners and posters pointing the finger at the “health dictatorship” , T-shirts praising the “cura Di Bella” and protests against the police, the demonstration of deniers and sovereignists that took place on Saturday afternoon in San Giovanni. But “we are not deniers”, the organizers shout from the stage, accusing the media of having misrepresented a different message: the virus will also be there, but the government’s management, the confinement and the obligation to wear a mask in the first place, are. ” violations of freedom, and we will not accept them. “

The peak of tension was reached shortly before 3 p.m., when the square began to fill up: a man who kept the mask under his chin refused to lift it to cover his nose and mouth, and then handed the documents to the police for identification. The discussion lasted for half an hour, minutes in which more and more people joined the protest, until the agents decided to take the man to one of the armored vehicles that surrounded the square and were run over by choruses of “Shame”. “arrest us too” and “you are the people too, you should be on the right side.” [LA CRONACA DI QUANTO ACCADUTO]

A timid sign of cargo as the man was escorted to the vehicle was immediately blocked, but not before an elderly man participating in the protests ended up on the ground, immediately relieved, unharmed, by a police officer.

A few more moments of tension between some particularly excited protesters and the officers, then the group dispersed and the sit-in continued: “If you turn off the television, the virus is no longer a provocation – explains a protester involved in a double cartel: there should be a health protocol that is the same for everyone, from north to south, instead the government goes hand in hand.

Another protester who came specifically from Naples (but there are also those who came on foot from Albenga and announced it from the stage installed in the open space near the church) holds a sign with the words “enough of fear”, and explains that “We We are not the deniers, it is the government that is denier, it will walk away with the history of the emergency because they know that now they cannot return so as not to be destroyed by the millions of unemployed by covid. “

Between an invocation and a protest, there is no shortage of objections to the protesters: Taffo, the funeral company that has become an icon on social networks thanks to irony, took the opportunity to distribute flyers offering advice, the own several passersby. they stopped to observe, shaking their heads, when asked for explanations, there were those who confirmed that “I do not respond to this dictatorship and I do not raise children like that.”

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