Another riot...

vancity_cowboy

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...ocId=CNG.663f0b056411fa976e982729acca2205.c01

200 injured at rally against Italian high-speed rail link
(AFP) – 53 minutes ago

CHIOMONTE, Italy — Around two hundred people, mainly police officers, were injured as officers clashed with masked protesters at a rally against a high-speed rail link in northern Italy Sunday, police said.

Clashes between protesters and police left at least 188 officers and about a dozen demonstrators hurt, said officials, after a small group stormed a tunnel which was part of the work site at Chiomonte, west of Turin.

Scuffles between protesters and a heavy police presence continued throughout the day, with a steady exchange of tear gas, stones and molotov cocktails.

Police arrested at least five people and Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano condemned the violence.

Police blamed the trouble on hundreds of masked leftist "black block" extremists from Italy and neighbouring countries.

Protest organisers said tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered peacefully from surrounding regions to stop the construction of the planned tunnel in the Susa valley.

But a small band broke away from the main group of protestors to enter the gated work site guarded by hundreds of police, who put the number of demonstrators at about 6,000.

The project, agreed by Italy and France in 2001, would slice three hours off the current seven-hour train journey between Paris and Milan.

But the development has provoked fierce opposition, not least among 23 local mayors.

In a statement, President Napolitano condemned what he said was the work of groups "trained in illegal violence."

He was joined by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and figures across the political spectrum.

Police were out in force on Sunday as authorities had expected more trouble from radical groups within the protest movement after similar clashes last week.

Twenty-five policemen and four protestors were slightly injured on June 27 when a demonstration at the same spot turned violent and police responded with tear gas.

Before Sunday's events, the leader of the "No Tav" (No to the high-speed train) movement, Alberto Perino, said demonstrators would have "bare hands and clean hands, against those whose hands are neither bare nor clean".

Work on the main 58-kilometre (36-mile) tunnel, of which 12 kilometres are in Italy, is scheduled to begin in 2013 and due to go into service around 2023.

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do groups hire these thugs or do they do it for kicks and giggles? kinda like showing up to play in a rugby tournament
 

sevenofnine

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in calgary when the g8 was here or whatever the fuck it was,

that is what alot of people thought, the protesters were paid,
either that or just a bunch of people who have nothing better to do with there life then travel the country or the world looking for a cause. in calgary it fizzled any way,


listening to a sports talk show, vancouver and canada took a hit, the dj was going on about how the american sport fans are the best in the world. there were no riots over the miami heat loss.
 

vancity_cowboy

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i get the impression they have riots in boston almost every month
 

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yep, limiting the cops' powers to enforce peaceful protests just brings out the best in us doesn't it

as one local journalist wrote during the year 1984, 'while western society was smugly patting itself on the shoulder for avoiding the horrors of george orwell's '1984' we didn't even notice that aldous huxley's 'brave new world' had crept up behind us...'

those words have never left me, and they ring even truer today
 

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Fuck 4 hours from Paris to Milan....count me in....sounds great. Too bad its still so long away.
 
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