200 people gathered in Piazza Venezia , in the center of Rome, to protest against the entry into force of the ban on entry into workplaces for over 50s without Super Green Pass. Initially the demonstrators were supposed to gather at the Circus Maximus , but at the last moment the organizers diverted people to the center, through the Telegram groups, precisely in order not to disappear in that huge space.
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‘No Green pass’ demonstration, Rome
The intention was probably to emulate what happens in France: here a procession of about 200 vehicles, the “convoy of freedom”, headed towards Paris where a few hundred pwrsone gathered to protest against the restrictive measures for the Coronavirus; the demonstrators also became the protagonists of violent clashes with the police before continuing the march, symbolically directed towards Brussels.
In Italy the plan was the same. The organizers of the protest thought they were gathering thousands of people who, with their own means , should have converged in the center of Rome but something did not work .
On social groups linked to the protest attempts are made to give an explanationto this lack of participation: “This morning at 10 am, the truck drivers tried to enter Rome and get to Piazza Venezia. All the roads to access it are blocked. The campers were held in the parking lots, the trucks were stopped. people have decided to go anyway, on foot! They need maximum support. Anyone can, go to Piazza Venezia in Rome. Not elsewhere as the misleading messages that bounced off in the night would like. ” It seems that in fact some campers and vans were stopped at the gates of the capital by the police for checks and the participants in the protest invited to continue on foot, but that their number was small.
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‘No Green pass’ demonstration, Rome
Indeed, the nervousness among the demonstrators present is tangible. “We are few, we are few. Each one had to bring five people, but there is no one here. They made fun of us,” a woman present on site told AGI. “It seems to me that people are decreasing instead of arriving”, argues another protester. “There are more police than us. We even organized ourselves to be four cats”, and the bitter comment of a woman to her husband. Although few are still motivated, they shout slogans at the police against the police. Marco Liccione , no vax leader of Turin, tries to calm the spirits. “We do not have the numerical power to carry out this event but they will listen to us”,
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‘No Green pass’ demonstration, Rome
There is also General Antonio Pappalardo , former leader of the orange vests, in Piazza Venezia, at the corner with Piazza San Marco, where the demonstrators then settled. Together with some of them, he then moved to a bar in Piazza Venezia. “We would have been millions at the Circus Maximus, people have been blocked by fear”, he repeats obsessively. Among the people expected also the No-Vax Nicola Franzoni who, according to what some present, would have been blocked outside Rome by the police.
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The former general of the Carabinieri Antonio Pappalardo in Piazza Venezia during the ‘No Green pass’ demonstration, Rome
.the people identified in these hours by the police, also in the context of checks prior to the actual event. A no-vax and no-pass garrison remained in Piazza San Marco, a side widening of Piazza Venezia where some demonstrators have planted Canadians and promise to remain in sit-in and are in any case constantly monitored by the police present on the spot.
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‘No Green pass’ demonstration, Rome
