Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in
Rome resulted in "guerrilla warfare" in which 34 police were
hurt thus showing Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi was right
to have banned it, although 5,000 demonstrators ignored the ban,
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antionio Tajani said on a
visit to Argentina Monday.
"What happened in Rome at the pro-PAL demonstrations is
incredible and has nothing to do with the freedom to demonstrate
and express one's ideas"," Tajani said at a press briefing in
Buenos Aires on the sidelines of a meeting with Latin American
ambassadors.
"It has been shown that Minister Piantedosi was right to choose
the path of banning demonstrations that were violent. I don't
think we can talk about infiltrators, there was a strategy to
wage guerrilla warfare and there was an assault on the police".
As well as the 34 officers who were targeted by thrown stones,
paper bombs and a road sign, four protesters were hurt including
a young woman with head injuries.
Police said the march was infiltrated by hundreds of Black Block
agitators.
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