(ANSA) Naples, November 7 - Five police officers and a
television cameraman were injured Friday when demonstrators
clashed with police during a march protesting authorities'
failure to renovate the Bagnoli former steelworks area in the
bay of Naples.
Masked demonstrators threw firecrackers and baseball bats
at police and threw up barricades made of street signs and
rubbish carts during the protests against the so-called "Unblock
Italy" government decree law which appointed a special commissar
to oversee renewal of the Bagnoli area, a move that the
opposition 5 Star Movement MP Roberto Fico claimed would mean
property speculators being given free rein.
"We are preparing an appeal to the Regional TAR court
against the Unblock Italy," said Fico, "if necessary we will
physically prevent people getting their hands on Bagnoli".
"We don't accept that Rome names a commissar that will
create new building speculation".
Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris announced recently he
wanted to remove his signature from a protocol agreement signed
in August in the presence of Premier Matteo Renzi supporting the
Unblock Italy scheme.
Demonstrators included representatives of the Cobas radical
trade unions and student protest organisations as well as
marchers who bussed into Naples from other cities in Campania.
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