What happened in Bologna near PalaDozza where the match was played had been predicted and announced for days Virtus-MaccabiIsraeli formation. After the relatively calm procession, the usual violent antagonist appeared near the building, a face coveredwhich opened clashes with the police. Between via Lame and via Marconi there was a riot guerrilla with launch paper bomb and obstruction of officers, who responded with water cannon and smoke bombs. The situation continues to develop, the area around PalaDozza has been armored and several hundred police officers and carabinieri have arrived in the city. At the end of the night, they are counted 8 injured.
The antagonistic groups are waging a real urban guerrilla war and although everything is in plain sight, around the red zone there are also several construction sites where the demonstrators managed to take materials to use as battering rams against the police, as well as clubs and other objects designed to offend. The group split up at a critical early stage, splitting into small cells that spread out and tried to attack the line from different sides. According to National Police Headquarters, the initial demonstration consisted of around 5 thousand people but many of them left when the demonstration became violent. On the streets around the building, the antagonists build barricades with trash cans and what they find on the streets and at construction sites. Officers managed to keep demonstrators outside the red zone, which was established to create a safety buffer around the arena.
At the end of the “official” procession, when the clashes seemed to stop happening 300 antagonists to confront the police. A number of parked cars and bicycles used to create barricades were damaged. The construction site fence was torn down and used as a barrier against the police with sheets and trash cans. When one group creates a makeshift “fortress,” another group creates one instead rejected entered via Rivareno by police, who ran about 200 meters. Pause with a is used load heading via Galliera.
“The resentment and inflammatory extremism fomented by the Democratic Party and its mayors, with pro-Pal and hooligan involvementin Bologna this once again led to intolerance and violence. Attacking the police and forcing the city to lock down at home to prevent sporting events from taking place shows the true face of the Italian left. We are on the sports side, on the police side, and on the side that can no longer accept this ideological extremism iwhere the left ends up with its allies“I declare Galeazzo Bignami, leader of the group of Italian Brothers in the Council.
“Accidents that occur are entirely the responsibility of the Mayor. The left, once again, has risen extremist fringe who are just waiting to do damage and bring chaos to the city. Today is another dark page where Lepore leads this city. Images of violence against the city and the police are another example embarrassed by the mandate from the Mayorhe stated Francesco Sassone Fdi Bologna Coordinator. “We express our closeness and solidarity to the women and men in the Police who, even today, with high professionalism, have face the wrath of those who commit violence left wing during the riots that turned Bologna into a theater of guerrilla warfare“, closed the note.
It was in Bologna, wrote Domenico Pianese, secretary of the Coisp Police Union, “this is not a simple demonstration but a predetermined action to violence during the Virtus-Maccabi match. We witness scenes that have nothing to do with freedom of expression: faces covered, barriers torn, sticks, bottles, smoke bombs thrown at head height towards the police department.“. This is very serious, he added, “that those in uniform are always threatened by groups in uniform they deliberately seek confrontation turning the city center into a battlefield. The actions that occurred tonight were not isolated actions, but were the fruit of a strategy that exploited every context to delegitimize the State and its law enforcement institutions.“. Hydrant intervention, explained Pianese,”it is necessary and proportionate to level of aggression of the demonstrators and once again the professionalism of the officers employed who avoided the worst despite experiencing violence and targeted attacks must be underlined.
Anyone who attacks police with batons and bottles must be identified and prosecuted without any reliefbecause it is time to stop the ambiguity: those who attack the police are attacking the State, and the State must respond decisively“.
