Italian authorities will manage a
formally illegal pro-Palestinian march in Rome Saturday "with
balance", Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Friday.
Marchers have been banned from worsening tensions ahead of the
October 7 anniversary of the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel
but have insisted they will go on with the event to voice
solidarity with Gaza and its high civilian toll in the Israeli
war of reprisal.
"Tomorrow's pro-Pal demonstration in Rome is illegal and will in
any case be managed with balance by our police forces, in whom I
trust blindly," said the minister.
"Not all the demonstrators will take to the streets: a very
representative group of the Palestinian world has accepted the
ban as an invitation to reschedule the march on Saturday 12
October, because it is clear that on the eve of 7 October and
for the way it was proposed there was a strong risk that it
would be a celebration of a massacre and a harbinger of
disturbances in the streets".
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