Event at the Brenner, clashes with Austrian police – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

Bolzano – Clashes between demonstrators and police at the Austrian border crossing at the Brenner Pass during the demonstration called by the Italian social centers against the announced introduction of controls on the part of Austria. The demonstrators, who began their march from the railway station in Italian territory, they are then directed along the highway towards the Italo-Austrian border and when they crossed the border showed the purple-colored passport bearing the inscription ‘world passport’ . The police tried to repel the procession had entered Austrian territory.

During the demonstration, and an Italian activist ‘was stopped among the organizers of the event. Today activists, demonstrating against the introduction of controls on the part of Austria on the border with Italy in order to curb the mass arrival of refugees, marched with a life jacket and an orange raft and have crossed the Italian-Austrian border on highway showing passport purple bearing the inscription ‘world passport’. (AGI)