Curzio Maltese article on the events that occurred in apiazza Navona.
I am to account to its parople. Anyone who disagrees can write a post or leave a comment otherwise. I support democracy and dialogue with the words and arguments, not with sticks wrapped in the flag. That more than the waving from the balcony when they play Italy, even if some minister would see it better in some rooms of the house.
He looked like a quiet morning in the center of Rome. Nothing to do with the seventies. Shops open, groups of tourists, the market of Campo dei Fiori, full of people. Of course, there was a student demonstration to block traffic. "But we are accustomed to going on for two weeks," sighed a policeman. At 11 you can hear the screams in a few minutes a wave of kids running away from Piazza Navona invade the stalls in Campo dei Fiori. They are small, fourteen years at the most frightened, red-faced.
before the Senate started the first charge of students of the right. They arrived with a truck loaded with iron bars and sticks, mysteriously ignored by cordons of police. They put the head of the parade, Waving belts and sticks around. Surrounding a boy of thirteen or fourteen, and fill it club. The police, within walking distance, not moving.
'm sixty, have helmets and ski masks, big sticks and long, often handles of picks, covered with black adhesive and wrapped in tricolor. Shouting "Duce, Duce". "The school is cleaned up." They claim to be students of the Students' Block, a small right-wing movement. They have between twenty and thirty years, but one that has the air of being the boss is on a forty, with a baseball cap. They are well organized by a paramilitary group, attacking in waves. Another charge affects a group of high school students of Virgil, De Chirico's art school and the University of Roma Tre. A young boy from a technical institute, Alessandro, was hit in the head, falls and throw kicks. "Enough, enough, let's go to the police!" say the professors.
I follow the squad that goes before the Senate and met the Chief Executive. "You can not sit still while they beat my students!" protest a lady with white hair. A student raises his voice: "And tell that protects them, you want the fighting." The officer yells, "Learn the education, child." The teacher insisted: "Do your job, stop the violence." The official response: "But those who do violence are to the left." There is an uprising of the squad: "Left? With swastikas?". The white-haired professor exhibits a large crucifix bearing neck: "I'm Catholic. I teach for 32 years and I never saw an action of violence by my students. There are people with the bars that beat defenseless children. What does it matter if they are right or Left? is a crime and you must intervene. "
The official meanwhile has spotted a video camera and his notebook: "I never said those are left." Monica, a student of Rome: "But they just heard it all! Who thinks he is, Berlusconi?". "You see how they respond?" Laura tells me, of Economics. "They want to pass the same equation mob of students left." The teacher called Rosa Raciti, teaches high school art De Chirico, and fear: "I I feel responsible. I did not want to come, then the students have asked me to accompany them. Come on, I said jokingly that you do not even know where the Senate. Seemed a good thing, finally talking about serious problems. Many had never been in an event, it seemed a civil baptism. Other than civil! It was a merry procession, peaceful, until I got those with helmets and sticks. Under the eyes of the police. One thing to induce vomiting. You have to write it. Although, I tell the truth, if I had not seen but only read the newspaper, there would never have believed. "
At a quarter to twelve other start screaming before the Senate. Francesco Cossiga is coming out." He is happy, eh? " yells in his face an aging professor. On Monday, the president emeritus gave the line, in an interview with National Newspaper: "Maroni should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior (...) infiltrated the movement with agents ready for anything, and let for ten days the demonstrators devastate the city. After that, the strong popular support, the sound of ambulance sirens must be higher than that of the police cars. The police should massacre the demonstrators without pity and send them all to ' hospital. beaten, everyone, including teachers who incite them. Maybe not the elderly, but the teachers girls yes. "
It's almost noon, about twenty helmets blacks remains isolated from others, in the clashes. To meet the comrades undertaking an unusual, leaves the side of Piazza Navona, sticks in hand through the police cordon, undisturbed, and returned to square away from Agonale. I decide to follow them but I was stopped by a policeman. "Where do you go?". I realize to be devoid of bar, then suspicious. While checking the journalist card, I note that I have just gone in the wind. The beat cop is memorable: "We have not noticed."
From the group of party officials a signal. A police officer says at one another: "They come those pieces of shit communists." The other replies: "Then you go to the streets to protect us?". "Yes, but not subito". Passa il vice questore: "Poche chiacchiere, giù le visiere!". Calano le visiere e aspettano. Cinque minuti. Cinque minuti in cui in piazza accade il finimondo. Un gruppo di quattrocento di sinistra, misto di studenti della Sapienza e gente dei centri sociali, irrompe in piazza Navona e si dirige contro il manipolo di Blocco Studentesco, concentrato in fondo alla piazza. Nel percorso prendono le sedie e i tavolini dei bar, che abbassano le saracinesche, e li scagliano contro quelli di destra.
Soltanto a questo punto, dopo cinque minuti di botte, e cinque minuti di scontri non sono pochi, s'affaccia la polizia. Fa cordone intorno ai sessanta di Blocco Studentesco, respinge l'assalto degli studenti di sinistra. Alla fine ferma una fifteen neo-fascists, who were taking the kids to throw a bolt. A group of students approaching the police to ask why the strange behavior. They have their arms raised, they have neither helmets nor bottles. The first student, Stephen, a Wave of Political Science, is hit with a truncheon blows to the neck (eventually in the hospital) and the peaceful protest retracts.
at noon and a half on the battlefield were two boys with his head in his hands stained with blood, smashed chairs, coffee table and cripple a large wooden Pinocchio without a leg, taken from the window of a toy shop and used as a weapon. Duccio, a physics student I met in employment, breeze wanders in search of her younger brother. "I think it's over, now it's over. And if not today, tomorrow. You want to organize peaceful protests, to let ideas come, the lessons in the streets, torchlight processions, sit in on the flower children. You want to refuse the political exploitation, to want to think about concrete things. On the news tonight we will talk only of accidents, day after day will, however, the idea that students want the casino. Cossiga is the method. They're screwing up. "
(Republic - October 30, 2008)
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