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A march protesting against the fascist violence that seriously hurt Emilio Visigalli, 50, last Sunday, ended with a violent confrontation with police forces in Cremona, in northern Italy Saturday.
“Fascist dens have to close. Emilio resist, we will fight for you,” was the slogan of the about 2,000 people who marched in the streets of Cremona, coming from many cities of the country, reported Il Giorgio.
The pacific demonstrators did not give any credit to the information that the fascist center Casa Pound had closed and put on sale. They accuse the organization and its 50 members of having planned the assault on the left-wing center Casa Dordoni, who was only occupied by eight people then.
As the tension was rising, and the police deployment growing bigger, about a hundred of hooded militants known in Europe as “Black Bloc,” dressed in black and hooded, infiltrated the movement and took the head of the march.
Before the arrival of the protestors at the siege of Casa Pound, around 5 p.m., the police started to launch tear gas, while the protestors replied with stones and bottles, according to a BBC report. Part of the protestors assaulted the local police station later in the night. According to internal sources, the demonstrators counted five injured in their ranks, while the police reported four injured.
An antifascist demonstration was also organized in support of the one occurring in Cremona, and against the Spanish national socialist center Ramiro Ledesma, known for having served free food to poor Spanish citizens but not immigrants, like Greek neonazi party Golden Dawn.
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