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(ANSA) - Turin, December 17 - Hooded activists protesting a
prison terms imposed Wednesday on four anti-TAV militants
briefly blocked the motorway linking Turin to the French city of
Frejus Wednesday and occupied a train travelling from Milan to
Turin.
About 20 protesters blocked the motorway after a Turin
court sentenced the four to three years and six months each in
prison for an attack on a high-speed rail construction site in
the Alps.
The protestors have all been fighting the construction of a
high-speed TAV railway between Italy and France, claiming it
will cost too much and destroy fragile environments.
The demonstrators lit smoke flares and unrolled a banner
but dispersed after a few minutes and traffic returned to
normal, police said.
In Novara, a major city in Italy's northern Piedmont
region, a group of 30 activists seized control of a regional
train and forced passengers to get out at station there to take
another train.
The militants refused to leave the train sitting in the
station.
No TAV activists block Turin-Frejus motorway, occupy train
Motorway re-opens, activists refuse to leave Milan-Turin train