October 16th, 2011 
admin Rome , Cars on fire! Masked men burned the Italian flag! On Saturday people worldwide took to the streets to demonstrate against the greed of the banks and capitalism. It went from mostly peaceful. Not in Rome! Here, the situation escalated. Riots shook the capital of Italy.
In Rome, the riots escalated: Demonstrators set fire to cars and burned the Italian flag.
Tens of thousands of Italians on Saturday followed by the global call for protest of the “outraged”. Under the motto “People of Europe, rise up!” (Peoples of Europe, is to) be the set for 14.00 clock march through Rome started earlier than planned. “We are just too many,” Italian media quoted the organizers of the capital.
The situation got out of hand. Masked protesters set fire to several cars. Others burned the Italian and European flag of a hotel. After a surprising victory of the controversial new Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a confidence vote, the police had expected incidents.
750 buses from 80 regions of Italy had been expected. The organizers are expecting at least 100000-200000 demonstrators. First television images suggest the participation was enormous.
The Spanish of the protest movement of “outraged” and the American protest movement, “Occupy Wall Street”-inspired action is directed against “the destruction of the rights of the commons, work and democracy through an anti-crisis policy that protects the profits and financial speculation and justified. “Worldwide, the global wave of protest on Saturday include all five continents and nearly 1000 cities.
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