Published February 23,2024
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Footage of police beating pro-Palestinian college students drew broad condemnation in Italy on Friday, with the opposition calling for the inside minister to deal with parliament over the episode.
Student marches had been blocked by police within the Tuscan cities of Florence and Pisa, with pictures of officers vigorously utilizing their truncheons on school-age protesters in Pisa triggering outrage on social media and from politicians.
The movies confirmed the scholars, who seemed to be protesting peacefully, retreating beneath a hail of blows from legislation enforcers carrying helmets and full riot gear.
“Is this how you beat your own children,” one younger girl is heard shouting.
Elly Schlein, the chief of the centre-left Democratic Party, posted on Facebook a video of the “unacceptable” scenes of “students trapped in an alleyway, charged and beaten by the police”.
She mentioned Giorgia Meloni‘s right-wing authorities, which got here to workplace in 2022 promising to crack down on unlawful immigration and promote legislation and order, was making a “climate of repression” within the nation.
Enzo Letizia, head of ANFP, a police commerce union, mentioned scholar protests had been typically infiltrated by “expert instigators” and judgments shouldn’t be made till an inquiry had been held into the incidents.
Teachers at Pisa‘s Russoli highschool, which is near the road the place the march happened and attended by a few of the college students concerned, mentioned they had been “stunned” by the therapy of the protesters, most of whom had been minors.
“We found boys and girls from our classes trembling and shocked … from the beatings they received,” the lecturers mentioned in an announcement, demanding that somebody be held liable for the “shameful day”.
Former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, chief of the left-leaning 5-Star Movement, mentioned the photographs had been “worrying” and “not worthy of our country”.
Source: www.anews.com.tr