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It became a symbolic stage of the Turin station after the protest demonstration on Monday, October 26. Vandals break Gucci’s window and then seize clothing and accessories. Images that have been on the web for a few hours. Gucci is not the only store looted in the center of Turin: there are many stores in via Roma and also McDonald’s windows in via Accademia delle Scienze. Firefighters worked late into the night to put out all the fires: wastebaskets and wastebaskets were set on fire.
Two people were arrested by the police after the Gucci looting. In all, 11 were arrested in the clashes, five reported.
HERE the other videos of the guerrilla evening
Chiara Appendino, Mayor of Turin, remarks at 10 a.m. on October 27, 2020:
Full solidarity and gratitude to the police who last night faced the criminal actions of the violent people who contaminated the peaceful demonstration of merchants, businessmen and workers. Violent people who organized to destroy, not to protest. The Police Headquarters has already identified some responsible and will go to the bottom.
They were actions that not only did not belong in any way to the reasons for the protest but, on the contrary, looted precisely in that protest. On the shoulders of the workers, merchants and businessmen who last night civilly expressed their legitimate dissent.
But as Mayor, it is above all those who, with the civil protest, have advanced protests and concerns related to the restrictions for containment and contrast with the pandemic that I want to address. It is to them that our greatest attention goes
It’s hard. We know. For some people, however, it is more so. It is useless to surround it. To them and to those who, despite experiencing the same sensations, were not in the square. No criminal act can obscure what this community feels.
With this post I will not be telling you that we are at work, that we will listen to the categories that were in the square or that, once again, we will do everything in our power to give concrete answers.
I want to think that all this is taken for granted for all institutions, always. Even more so when we are faced with the greatest health and social emergency since the postwar period to the present.
We know what it means for a restaurateur to have to shut down, again, maybe just as he was starting to raise his head after the first wave’s damn period.
We know what it means for a theater or a cinema to have to cancel programming again. And we know that culture and education are the main beacon for any future generation that wants to be better than the previous one.
We know what it means for a gym, for fan associations, for the world of sport in general, to suffer a new setback. At the risk of being perceived as “less important” than other activities when this is not the case. It is not for those who make sport the cornerstone of their health and lifestyle. It is not for those who are dedicated to sports and put passion, sweat and blood on it.
We know what it means, for the commercial sector, to have to sideline with the single euro, hoping at least to cover expenses. If it is okay.
In general, we know what the feeling of being considered “expendable” means for all these categories. So less important than others.
We know how these and other categories – many others, no less important – in recent months have done everything possible, and even more so, to configure everything necessary for the prevention of contagion in their own spaces.
We know. Believe me.
However, today we are still here fighting and we will have to continue to do so.
The categories that protested in the square yesterday had and have every right to make their voices heard. They have the right to shout their anger. And we, the institutions, have a duty to listen to them.
But no one has the right to lower their guard.
It hurts to impose restrictions. You do not know how much. It hurts because we look citizens in the eye and ask for sacrifices. It hurts because we know that the shockwaves of these decisions impact both a management and a company, their services and their budgets for many months, often years.
Now we are also facing this moment and we can do it with concrete help from the Government. To which, once again, the Turin City Council gives its maximum availability. With the commitment to keep up to date and be present at all times.
