"It wasn't dissent , but a genuine act of urban guerrilla warfare." This is how Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi commented on the No Tav riots in the Susa Valley, explaining that "what happened is simply shameful."

This afternoon, the Turin-Bardonecchia highway was closed near the San Didero trucking site after protesters, reportedly several hundred, occupied it and set fire to some household goods. They also threw rocks and firecrackers at the police station protecting the construction site.

"This is the worst face of ideological extremism that must be firmly isolated and repressed," the minister emphasized. "Behind the facade of a 'cultural' event," he added, "yet another unacceptable act of organized violence has taken place against the state, its infrastructure, and those who defend it. And to think that someone had the courage to criticize the security decree. I have been assured of full commitment to identifying all those responsible."

(Unionenline)