Coronavirus: the most dramatic photos of the demonstrations against the closure of shops in Italy

Merchants protesting against the closure of economic activities the pandemic and the police clashed in front of the Chamber of Deputies in Roma, after several protesters tried to overcome protective barriers. The protests were also recorded in other major Italian cities such as Milan and Turin.

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The situation was responsible for voltage when the demonstrators, many of whom They did not wear chin straps and did not maintain social distance, They tried to go through the police guards that demarcate the entrance area of ​​the lower house of the Italian Parliament and threw objects, such as bottles.

Riot police responded with tear gas and managed to contain the protesters, some of whom were detained, while a policeman was injured according to local media.

After the incidents, the scene calmed down again and the demonstrators continued their protest, shouting slogans such as “jesters, jesters” and “Freedom, freedom”, with some flags that read “Italexit”.

One of the protesters wore a horned hat who called back Jake Angeli, one of the Capitol raiders last January in Washington who is a member of the Qanon conspiracy theory movement.

There were also moments of tension in the protest of the merchants in Milan, where the demonstrators wanted to move in procession from the central station to the headquarters of the prefecture, but stopped as they passed the seat of the central government in the Lombard capital and blocked traffic.

Protesters, including workers in the sector touristic, they asked in their slogans “Works, immediate restoration and reopening.”

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For its part, in Turin the biggest protests have been in court to demand justice for those who continue to shut down their businesses under the slogan “we want to open our markets”.

Several hundred street traders also came out to protest in Bari, in the south of the country, to demand the opening of markets, meeting with their vans in a market area of ​​the city.