In addition to the usual antagonistic and anarchist groups, yesterday’s clashes saw the participation of the maranza, young and third generation young foreigners. A strange combination that led to an explosive result
Complicated day yesterday in Milan. To the strong bad weather that caused the flooding of the Seveso they joined Guerrilla scenes that have not been seen since 2015during the culmination of the clashes for the events “No Expo“.
This time the slogans that echoed were those of “Palestine Libera“And related, certainly more noble, yet ignominously stained by the free guerrilla that unleashed against the police at the Central Station of Milan from a Facinorosi fringe.
Needless to say that attacking the police or destroying the railway station of the Lombard capital will contribute very little to perorate the cause of the Palestinian people. The only goal achieved was to create disservices spread to citizenship and attract the antipathies of millions of Italians.
Who were the violent
Never like yesterday the Mélange of the demonstrators seemed so different. The first clashes began when a group of demonstrators dressed in black and covered face He tried to enter the railway stopover, triggering the beginning of the guerrilla warfare from the astonished looks of the innocent passengers.
So far the script is the one seen and revised over the years, groups of antagonists And anarchists which punctually infiltrate certain events with the aim of giving way to the clashes with the police and proceed with the free destruction of any property nearby.
This is what happened immediately afterwards to represent a singular deviance from the script. While hundreds of people paraded from the hot areas to have nothing to do with the violent, others rush to take part in the tenzone against the police and the public property.
Many of them correspond to the identikit of the “maranza”, They are second and third generation foreigners or Italianstendentially inhabitants of peripheral neighborhoods, certainly not part of the organized antagonist groups, given that most of them lashes out against the police without wearing balaclavas or kefiah, but a face uncovered.
While the slogans in support of Palestine alternate Arabic phrases, the “initiators” of the violence disappears; the spontaneity of the “Maranzesca Guerriglia“It already appears clear from the way in which it is conducted, launch some objects and withdraw, scream, advance again, all without precise coordination typical of the antagonists.
The first arrests for clashes
The risk is that yesterday was nothing more than the first event of the new alliance among the classic “guerrillas” linked to the world of the far left and Maranza, the new disturbers of public quiet, a phenomenon that at the moment seems to be limited to Milan alone.
In the meantime, the first arrests have taken place. Three demonstrators involved in the clashes in front of the central station were arrested by the police on charges of resistence And aggravated damage.
The arrests are only the beginning of a wider investigation that could involve dozens of people. The surveillance cameras of the central station and the police movies are providing precious material to investigators for identify those responsible for damage and attacks.
In the meantime, the vice premier Matteo SalviniIn promising that such events will not be repeated, he launched a proposal: “We will ask for a deposit to those who organize processions and events, in case of damage they will pay their pocket”.
An understandable and indeed shareable proposal, which however raises many doubts about its effective legal and constitutional applicability. The right of demonstration is protected by the Constitution and introducing economic limitations would almost certainly be considered by the judiciary an obstacle to the free exercise of this right.
