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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.
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