Numerous parades took place this Friday, November 15 in the main cities of the Peninsula to defend public schools and denounce the precariousness of students. But the Palestinian cause was also invited into this new edition of “No Meloni Day”.
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With our correspondent in Rome, Eric Senanque
From Pisa to Rome via Bologna or Genoa, the processions paraded in around thirty Italian cities. In their ranks, many high school students or young students demonstrating for a free public school, mistreated according to them by the government.
But student precariousness was not the only reason for the parades, the war in the Middle East featured in the slogans. In Turin, a banner was displayed with these words: “ Students know which side to stand on, against the government and the genocide in Palestine “. In Rome, some shouted against “ a government of fascists and Zionists “. Some processions ended with scuffles between young people and the police.
On the networks, Giorgia Meloni denounced “ unacceptable scenes of violence and chaos from the usual troublemakers “. The League of Matteo Salvini, party of the Minister of National Education, for its part denounced “ a climate of hatred “.
Born two years ago after the Fratelli d’Italia party came to power, No Meloni Day is a slogan that seems to have found root among the country’s left-wing youth.
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