those protesting against the new Dpcm throughout Italy

Yesterday in Ostia about 400 people gathered in Piazza Anco Marzio and then marched in procession to dispute the new Dpcm October 24 and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. The demonstration against the closures of the Dpcm, which was attended by about two thousand people, ended without incident in Naples. The procession made a long journey through the streets of the Vomero district, violating the curfew (set in Campania at 11 pm) and chanting slogans against the Prime Minister and Governor De Luca.

The same thing happened in Syracuse: dozens of people, mostly young people, walked along Corso Gelone, Corso Umberto and arrived at Piazza Duomo in front of Palazzo Vermexio, the seat of the municipality. Paper bombs were dropped in Catania. In Pescara the protest was peaceful.

“You close us, you pay us”: protests against the new Dpcm throughout Italy

In Nocera Inferiore, in the province of Salerno, however, shortly after 6 pm, various commercial activities, such as “Bar Nasti”, “Aperi 10” and “Blues”, occupied the main street with chairs and tables, while two events are scheduled for tonight in Turin. : the first will be held at 8:30 pm in piazza Castello, the second at 9:00 pm in piazza Vittorio Veneto. No communication reached the police headquarters or the prefecture. Digos investigates after tamtam on social networks.

Instead, a peaceful protest will be that of the Tuscan Restorers who, on November 4, the day of the 1966 Arno flood, behind the hashtag #contearriviamo, which has also become the slogan of the initiative, will start the ‘ Path of the inessential ‘to reach Rome together on foot, opposite Palazzo Chigi. A journey of about ten days that will depart from the Ponte Vecchio and will remember, in its spirit, the peaceful demonstration carried out by Mahatma Gandhi against the tax on salt, which has gone down in history as the ‘March of Salt’.

In Milan today the movements born from below will meet in front of the Prefecture, while last night a hundred people gathered under the headquarters of the Region. Tuesday will be the day of the protest called by Fipe (Confcommercio), which will demonstrate in 17 cities with the hashtag #siamoaterra. And then there is the extreme right: Forza Nuova has already taken the field in Naples, Rome, Palermo, Catanzaro, Bari.

Those who protest against the new Dpcm

The protests against the new Dpcm October 24, which closes public establishments at 6 in the afternoon, are mainly led by the trade associations that will suffer the most damage from the new squeeze and for which the government has announced refreshments in a decree that must be approved. this week. But it’s not just them. The extreme left has taken to the streets in Naples and the social centers are being organized in the big cities, but the mini blockade does not even like Carlo Bonomi, the president of Confindustria, who yesterday invited Lucia Annunziata in Rai3 attacked: ” to understand the direction. A week ago the gyms were open, now we are closing them. The truth is that we let ourselves be caught off guard. There is social unrest and we cannot ignore it. “

“This is my father. A man who was made from nothing, from the poverty of a family of Venetian sharecroppers. A large family where women said they were not hungry just to leave food for their children. Humble people.” the post published on Facebook Saturday afternoon by Elena Tonon, owner, together with her father Giuseppe, of the restaurant-ice cream parlor Ca ‘Lozzio in Oderzo (province of Treviso). A photograph that actually speaks for itself: there there is him, “Beppo” – this is his historical nickname -, sitting at the entrance of the structure in his elegant blue uniform. The mask hanging from one ear, his gaze fixed in search of answers. thoughtful after discovering that we may have to close our business at 6 in the afternoon and we don’t even have to open on Sunday, a guaranteed pick-up day for a business like ours, ”his daughter’s post continues.“ This is the final blow, “he told me.”

The initiatives are announced and promoted on social networks and are often carried out without police authorization and in violation of the current curfew in the territories. “I cannot know – said the president of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia yesterday – what will be the evolution of these protests in the coming days and weeks, there is certainly a lot of discontent and concern. Our operators told me that we don’t want the money but we want to work. ”

We are in a difficult period, we would miss the protests: if I were on the other side, I would also have reasons to complain and I would feel angry about the government’s measures. But I say: let’s wait for the measures to be taken and evaluate them. They are an economic support. conspicuous, or at least adequate, “Conte said yesterday at a press conference. Then he added: “I say be careful. There are groups of antagonists, even a little professional, who try to fuel the protest. They tell me there were ordinary citizens, but beware of infiltrations.” Certainly, the anger of the citizens by the mini-confinement is not infiltrated but true.

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