Provocations in street demos to say govt authoritarian-PM

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 14 - Students and others who have been staging anti-government street protests have merely been responsible for "provocations" aimed at claiming that the government, in allegedly repressing them, is authoritarian, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday.
    "We always say they're students but if you look at the photos, the images, and videos, you see that they're graduates, or have dropped out," she told a conservative daily La Verità event in Milan.
    "Some of these people are professionals in the activity, who provoke the forces of law and order in the hope that something goes wrong and they can say that the government has authoritarian methods," she said. (ANSA).