(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Monday that he was astounded that Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore said that around 300 "blackshirts" had been sent to his city after violence related to demonstrations there at the weekend.
    On Saturday, anti-riot police clashed with demonstrators who were taking part in an anti-fascist march organized by left-wing collectives in Bologna against the demonstration held nearby by members of the far-right Casa Pound and Rete dei Patrioti groups.
    "I am astonished by the statements made by Mayor Lepore to whom, as is only right and proper, the government has always guaranteed every form of convinced, loyal cooperation, most recently on the occasion of the recent flooding in the city," Piantedosi said He added that it was "serious to insinuate alleged direction or intervention 'from Rome'''. (ANSA).