Protests at Coliseum turn violent

[guy]

 

Maybe not a good time to be a tourist in Rome. Protests at the Coliseum have not turned destructive … yet.

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by guy

[guidoLaMoto]

Looks to be all young kids....Nothing mentioned in the most popular Italian newspaper https://www.corriere.it/il-punto/. One article on the unrest in France & Italy (mostly in Milan and mostly young kids apparently.)

[caesar novus]

16 hours ago, guy said:

Maybe not a good time to be a tourist

Supposed to hit Florence tomorrow, which I would avoid if only for participants saturating trains and overwhelming public toilets. I have seen Italy under duress before, with officialdom not handling things well. My first visit was during a terror scare and paramilitary was everywhere brandishing submachineguns. Mostly 18 yearolds carelessly pointing guns at people. 

Maybe around that time was the "Ustica massacre" where a bathroom bomb brought down an Italian airliner (wreckage preserved in a Bologna museum!) and politicians demanded it be ruled as due to a stray NATO missile. Later I was ambushed by German speaking teens with bb guns near Lake Garda, and couldn't interest the police into checking their hideout. Finally I arrived during a volcano eruption whose dust shut down flights and the spillover saturated rail traffic to major Italian towns. Only by standing by a toilet stall did I get mobile, and it was to dull Genoa rather than planned destinations.

Edited 43 minutes ago by caesar novus