Youths near Varese attack police, insult cabinet

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 11 - A group of young people in the town of Busto Arsizio near Varese have attacked police officers in an incident similar to the one reported on New Year's Eve in Milan, investigative sources said on Saturday.
    The police officers on Friday night intervened to stop two youths who were throwing bottles at passing cars, hurling insults and threatening passersby.
    Once the police officers reached the scene, a group of 30 to 40 youths, most of them foreigners, grouped in front of the two young men the officers were trying to identify, the sources said.
    They started insulting the police, the government and Italy and did not allow the police officers to question the pair, according to the same sources.
    Several North African youths are being probed in Milan for allegedly insulting Italy during New Year's Eve celebrations at the Duomo, also waving their own national flags.
    Prosecutors in the northern city are also investigating alleged sexual assault cases during New Year's Eve celebrations in Piazza Duomo. (ANSA).