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Police clear migrants from Rome piazza with water cannons

BY COLLEEN BARRY AND PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press

AUGUST 24, 2017 12:57 PM ROME

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Migrants in a Rome piazza threw rocks, bottles and gas cans at riot police using water cannons to clear out about 100 mostly Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum-seekers early Thursday as part of a security operation harshly criticized by humanitarian groups.At least two people were detained, and 13 were injured.The dawn operation comes days after authorities cleared most of the 800 migrants who had been squatting in an adjacent building since 2013.Police said in a statement the operation was necessary because the migrants remaining in the piazza had refused to accept city-organized lodging and because of the risk of cooking gas canisters and other flammable materials.

Giggles. Where's your Pope now???

Why aren't they rounding them up and DEPORTING them???

WATCH: Migrants Turn Violent as Police Remove Them from Rome Streets

by Chris Tomlinson25 Aug 2017287
Police in Rome removed a hundred migrants from a public square Thursday after they set up camp to protest the lack of housing for asylum seekers.

The police operation was met with heavy resistance from the migrants who were camped out at the Piazza Indipendenza in the centre of the city. Migrants threw glass bottles, rocks, and gas canisters at the officers who were attempting to clear them from the area, Salzburger Nachrichten reports.
According to the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) amongst the 100 or so migrants were women, children, and people with disabilities. The spokesman for the Italian branch of MSF Tommaso Fabbri said: “It is a shame that there has been such a violent solution because of a lack of housing for migrants.”
Refugees and asylum seekers wait after being displaced from a palace in the center of Rome on August 23, 2017. (Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images.)

MSF has been sharply criticised by many, including the Italian government, for their role in rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean and bringing them to Italy. The European Union border agency Frontex has called the work of migrant rescue NGOs, a “pull-factor” which encourages people traffickers and more migrants to attempt the dangerous journey from North Africa.
The conflict between the migrants and police escalated to the point where authorities deployed water cannons. After the conflict ended, two of the migrants were arrested, whilst 13 were injured, some being sent to a local hospital with bone fractures.
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The migrant camp sprung up largely due to the eviction of 1,000 illegally squatting migrants from a nearby office building over the weekend. The migrants had been illegally living in the building since 2013.
The recent large-scale migrant flows into Italy have caused enormous strain on governmental resources and particularly in Rome which houses large numbers of migrants. Earlier this year, Five Star Movement Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi said the city was simply unable to house any more migrants.
Migrant riots are also nothing new in Italy which has seen several large riots in asylum homes, on the streets of Turin, and elsewhere.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017...-rome-streets/

From November 2016.....unfair to Europeans to be surrounded by undesirables. this is what globalists, the UN do to EU citizens that pay taxes and are entitled to have reasonable immigration protocols.
African Migrants Riot Against ‘Racist’ Italians: ‘Allah Will Guide Us in Revenge’

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by Virginia Hale25 Nov 20161734
Locals were terrified as African migrants rioted, throwing projectiles and screaming threats at passers-by in a protest against “racist” Italians on Wednesday and Thursday in Turin.

The Bataclan massacre was a “revenge of the excluded”, warned one of the hundreds of migrants, most of them illegal, who took to the streets to protest against not being given a “decent life” by Italian taxpayers.
“We have nothing in this city”, a man from Cameroon said, angry that people in Italy “do not understand that we are also boys and would like a decent life”.
The rioters are among 1,500 Africans illegally squatting in Turin’s abandoned Olympic village. Most of the men are in their twenties and while there are some who work on the black market, many complain about having nothing to do.
“You Italians — tell your children that we are not dogs. Keep them quiet because our patience will end sooner or later,” one warned. Another cheered the Bataclan massacre in which 89 people were murdered, many of whom were reportedly tortured, hailing it as a “revenge of the excluded”. “One dead of ours [Africans], one death of yours,” he cried.
The trouble started on Wednesday evening when around 300 residents of the former Olympics site took to the streets. They blocked traffic, uprooted signposts, overturned garbage bins, and hurled stones and bottles while screaming “racist” and “bastards” at passers-by. “The Italians are racist and the police control us,” the migrants railed.
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The riot calmed down after midnight when police arrived, but shops were forced to close the following day as violence erupted once again when migrants continued to riot.
The man who first notified police of the trouble recalled: “We were already in bed when there was this outbreak. They shook our shutters and the windows then a group of people ran out screaming. We were afraid, not for we adults, but for our children.”
A local called Umberto said he’s now considering moving away from the area after the scenes this week. “Until yesterday we were just fed up with this situation of lawlessness that is in the area. Now we’re really fearful,” he told La Stampa.
Northern League MEP Mario Borghezio said his anti-mass migration party has for years sounded the alarm on the situation at Turin’s former Olympics site, and warned that the danger it poses has become too acute to ignore.
He said: “It’s evident that measures taken so far have been insufficient to prevent the continuing acts of violence which are generating great fear and concern in citizens.”
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“The government must now root out the gangrenous [criminality] of the site by taking the urgent and necessary step of relocating the migrants and expelling all criminals,” Borghezio added.
The Northern League politician called for zero tolerance of migrants at the former Olympic village last year when it emerged that three African men from the site had kidnapped, held for 30 hours, and repeatedly raped a girl with mental disabilities.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016...-racism-allah/

Venice Mayor Says Anyone Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in St. Mark’s Square Can Expect to Be Shot

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by Chris Tomlinson24 Aug 2017680
Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro has caused controversy after releasing a statement saying that anyone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” in the city’s most famous tourist area can expect to be shot.

The Venice mayor made the statement Wednesday after calling for more security and better precautions to prevent terrorist attacks in the northern Italian city which sees millions of visitors per year.
Mayor Brugnaro pulled no punches saying: “We have to fight terrorism in Italy and raise the security precautions here.”
He added: “If someone runs in the square and shouts ‘Allahu Akbar,’ he will be immediately shot,” Die Presse reports.
“If you want to kill me, I will defend myself and in Venice we defend ourselves,” Brugnaro said.
He then noted that police in the city had already foiled a terror plot in March when they discovered that three Islamic extremists were planning to indiscriminately attack locals and tourists at the famous Rialto bridge by blowing it up.
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A general view of Rialto Bridge over Canal Grande in Venice, Italy. (Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty)

Police had wiretapped the three extremists involved in the plot and caught one saying: “With all the unbelievers there are in Venice, you put a bomb under the Rialto and you go straight to heaven.”
The city is also ramping up security for the 74th annual Venice film festival which will take place at the end of the month. Police stated that they will be using checkpoints and blocking the path of most vehicles to prevent a similar attack to Barcelona or Nice. Bomb-sniffing dogs will also be present as well as rooftop snipers and divers in the canal water around the event.
Mayor Brugnaro, who ran for mayor as an independent candidate, is no stranger to controversy in the past. In 2015, he had a heated row with British musician Elton John after he vowed there would be no pride parades in Venice.
“There will never be a Gay Pride [parade] in my city,” Brugnaro said adding: “Let them go and do it in Milan, or in front of their own homes.”
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Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of the city of Venice, attends at the opening of the Israel pavilion, presenting the project ‘Sun Stand Still’ of Gal Weinstein at the 57th Biennale Arte on May 11, 2017 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Awakening/Getty Images)

Whilst no major terror attacks have occurred in Italy so far, the Italian authorities have uncovered numerous plots in recent years. Earlier this year, Italian intelligence claimed they had “concrete evidence” that cities like Rome were targets of the Islamic State terror group but authorities have managed to prevent any major attacks.
Italy has also taken in hundreds of thousands of migrants from North Africa in recent years. This week, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said: “Ungoverned migrant flows are threatening the social and democratic fabric of Italy,” while Libyan authorities have warned of potential terror elements among the migrants.

http://Venice Mayor Says Anyone Shou... the migrants.

Imagine what this kind of thing is doing to the tourist trade in Venice and other European countries.

It has had to have a chilling effect. Has the media mentioned this?