(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 24 - Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese was urged Monday to explain why police had baton-charged a student demonstration in Rome Sunday protesting the death of a student in Friuli on his last day of work experience Friday.
Ismaele Calaciura Errante, an 18-year-old student, said he was "struck without having done anything" as police stopped the demo approaching parliament near the central Pantheon temple.
"I'm going to file a complaint now, I was afraid yesterday".
Centre left Democratic Party (PD) MP Matteo Orfini said "in Rome the students demonstrating after the death of Lorenzo Parelli were baton-charged by the police and bashed with truncheons for no reason.
"In the same city the fascists of Forza Nuova were allowed to assault the HQ of (leftwing trade union) CGIL. Minister Lamorgese, does that seem normal?".
Communist Refoundation (PRC) national committee member Giovanni Barbera "Minister Lamorgese must clear up what happened," saying that the media had portrayed the protest at the Pantheon as anti-capitalists and anarchists, "as if to justify the disgraceful baton charges of the police". (ANSA).
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