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election tour with the candidate Borgonzoni

Salvini in Bologna, violent clashes

The leader of the League ” here you can do the miracle. ” Then he meets the rector of the University. Out of the collective dispute, clashes with police. Flying stones, pineapples and coconuts. Four bruised. protest choirs also by students of Engineering

BOLOGNA – The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, he returned to Bologna. “Here you can do the miracle, there is a desire to change,” he said with alongside the mayor candidate of the center, Lucia Borgonzoni. Then the meeting with the rector of the University of Bologna, Francesco Ubertini, in Engineering. But the news of the day become the clashes, violent, between the collective and the police out of the faculty. Are also stones flew.

Salvini in Bologna, election tour and clashes

“WE CAN WIN ‘ – The new Bologna election tour of Salvini part in street market Albani, in Bolognina, where the leader of the League comes shortly before 11, after he got off the train and out of the station in via Carracci (protected by police armored). Salvini passes in the middle of the market: there are people who shakes his hand, old ladies say: “How beautiful you are.” He passes from the dyeing and says to the owner: “Here there is no need for cleaning.” Then laughing gets a photo in front of the words “Market permanent anti-fascist”. Via Albani Salvini spoke live on La7 : It comes to immigration: “I just talked with traders – he says – They say that we are not here in the evening to Bologna, we are not in Italy, there to go around with the helmet. This is not the normal I think about. ” Journalists asked him of collective disputes, who regularly accompanies his visits “would study a bit ‘more would be better advised to build their future – says Salvini – can not be held hostage by a handful of criminals. Because this is, and as such should be treated. ” What do you think of the attack Lucia Borgonzoni Zuppi to the bishop, who became a mediator in the negotiations between the City and the occupants after the eviction of Via Irnerio two days ago? On this dampens Salvini: “The church is fortunately care of souls, do not allow myself to judge what the bishop says to the souls. Private property is a right and must be protected. ” In Bologna, the center-right can win? “I’m really want to change in Bologna – responds Salvini – with more jobs, more light, more safety. In Bologna, the miracle you can do it, they have the Bolognese in the election pencil. “

CLASHES AND INJURED – The collective came together already at 9 in the university area in one hundred. The Cua part at 11 in procession to the Engineering. In the faculty of Via Risorgimento early and the inputs are filtered. Outside, police cordon. The procession arrived, shortly before noon, immediately clash. The collective of activists arrive at a fast pace towards riot officers deployed in the road. Immediately start the beatings, which lasted about ten seconds. Then collective and police face off a short distance, while the boys shouting “Shame” and “Out of the cops from the University.” No teacher and no student is admitted in the faculty. A professor complains: “I can not even go to give lessons.” A small group of activists Hobo – dropped from the parade – manages to get to Engineering and to await the arrival of Salvini in, contestandolo. He responds by throwing kisses. Then the protesters are brought out by the police.
After a second attempt by protesters to reach the Faculty of Engineering arrive other police charges, which distance the protesters. Throwing eggs, vegetables and stones: you see coconuts, pineapples and cobblestones. Then the procession retires along the avenue: in the 200 block traffic. A preliminary tally of four bruised between the protesters and a policeman wounded in the leg.

THE MEETING WITH THE RECTOR AND STUDENTS PROTEST – Meanwhile Salvini meets the rector Ubertini: “I have confirmed my solidarity with Panebianco and I congratulated the rector who should deal with knowledge and instead must vacate the classrooms where there are night owls, but he do his job very well,” he says to ‘ output. Waiting outside Salvini is located in front of the students, not the collectives that were organized to protest, but the students who were there to go to class: too the dispute in a peaceful manner, the whistling and shouting “Dumb idiot” ( WATCH VIDEO ).

THE FACE TO FACE WITH A STUDENT – Salvini, before leaving the city, is talking to exchange some words with a student who expresses his solidarity with the violent protests, but he insists all his opposition to his ideas and his political practices. “He’s one of us – said the girl – you have to be afraid, not of those who throw the eggs to the police.” ( WATCH VIDEO )

PROCESSION TO THE CENTRE – Meanwhile, the collective procession moves towards the center directed to the Rector, to the cry “Ubertini friend Salvini.” Shortly before the event 14 melts.

Andreina Baccaro, Beppe Persichella