Fresh protest over Florence shooting (2)

(ANSA) - Florence, March 6 - A fresh protest took place in Florence Tuesday after the fatal shooting of a Senegalese man in the Tuscan capital on Monday.
    Some 300 people, almost all Senegalese living in Florence and other parts of Tuscany, staged a sit-in to which Florence Mayor Diego Nardella had also been invited.
    But Nardella was forced to abandon the event after being pushed and jostled by some Senegalese as well as young far-left activists from so-called 'social centre' squats.
    Taking his leave, Nardella said "the history of Florence is the story of dialogue, the city understands the anger for the death of a man but does not accept violence".
    After staging the sit-in near where the victim died at the Vespucci bridge over the Arno, not far from the uS consulate, the protesters tried to start a march which had not been authorised.
    Protests had already turned ugly on Monday night as Senegalese protesters overturned flower boxes in the historic centre.
    A 65-year-old Italian man, Roberto Pirrone, shot 54-year-old street hawker Idy Diene.
    He said he had initially been planning to commit suicide because of money problems but had then decided to shoot the first person who came his way.