Photo credit: Zeroincondotti (Antifa Italy)

Anti-Fascist organizations had gathered in Bologna, Italy as they tried to stop a political rally by the right-wing nationalists of Forza Nuova, who are currently riding high in the polls.

Clashes broke out when police intervened to try and stop the anti-fascist demonstrators from occupying the square where the Forza Nuova leader, Mr. Roberto Fiore, was due to speak later that afternoon.

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🆘‼👮‍♂️🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Italy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Italy</a>: the police in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bologna?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bologna</a> could not be swayed, and distributed to the A-social luminaries of the Communist <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antifa?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antifa</a> a good beating with batons. <a href="https://t.co/rn2O1ngLfd">pic.twitter.com/rn2O1ngLfd</a></p>— Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) <a href="https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/964823256627900416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">17 February 2018</a></blockquote>

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Mr Pierluigi Bersani, a former government minister who is running for a small left-wing party, joined the demonstration of his movement comparable to the US’s Antifa, claiming that the only way to stop the right-wing nationalists was to fight these “regurgitated fascists and terroristic phenomenon” is to “go into the streets, and go there together”.

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Italy goes to the polls on 4 March. Ever since a nationalist extremist shot 6 African immigrants out of revenge for an Italian girl getting killed by a Nigerian drug dealer, tensions have been riding high.

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The right and the far-right are currently leading in the polls. Italy is currently being led by a center-left government.

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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a clear lead in the latest polls.

Source:

https://it.blastingnews.com/cronaca/2018/02/bologna-nuovi-scontri-tra-antifascisti-e-polizia-002370135.html