Four police were hurt in Turin's
trendy Venchiglia quarter Tuesday night in clashes with young
people including anarchist squatters protesting Mayor Chiara
Appendino's ban on selling carry-out drinks between eight
o'clock at night and six in the morning.
The protests came amid a clampdown on the city's so-called
'mala movida', or troublemaking nightlife.
Two commissioners, a man and a woman, were among the four
police injured, and two protesters were arrested.
The local Askatasuna anarchist and anticapitalist squat
organised the protest, while some 50 police were deployed
in Piazza Santa Giulia, where the police presence had already
been contested at the end of last week.
Clashes broke out and another four officers were injured, one
of them hit in the face with a bottle, while the others
sustained minor injuries.
Customers at bars and restaurants fled or hid inside, before
calm was restored at around eleven o'clock.
The square was left littered with upturned chairs and tables
as well as broken bottles.
A stampede among Juventus fans watching the Champions League
final against Real Madrid June 3 left 1,500 injured and one
woman dead, with many injuries caused by broken bottles,
spurring Mayor Appendino to institute the ban.
"There should never again be such clashes, the city's open
spaces are for all," Appendino said late Wednesday.
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