(ANSA) - Rome, December 11 - Nine members of the far-right
CasaPound group were convicted Monday for clashes with the
police after a demo against migrants moving into a reception
centre on the northern outskirts of Rome in July 2015. Eight of
them got three years and seven months in jail and one got two
years and seven months.
The nine were charged with resisting arrest and bodily harm.
Fourteen police were hurt in the clashes with CasaPound
members and local residents over the arrival of 19 asylum
seekers in the Casale di San Nicola district of northern Rome on
July 17, 2015.
A bus carrying the asylum seekers and escorted by police in
riot gear pushed past protesting local residents and CasaPound
members to arrive at the doors of the migrant reception centre.
The refugees were spotted inside the bus, curtains drawn as
the bus was pelted with water bottles and other objects thrown
by anti-immigrant protesters, some of them shouting "You have to
get out of here".
Police at one point baton-charged the protesters after
coming under a barrage of objects including sun umbrellas and
chairs.
Protesters also torched rubbish bins and bales of hay, while
others tried to block a street.
9 CasaPound members convicted for clash (3)
In Rome in July 2015