Student groups protesting against
Italian universities' cooperation with Israeli institutions amid
the war in Gaza are continuing their demonstrations on Wednesday
after violent clashes broke out with police at Rome's La
Sapienza University on Tuesday.
The students are staging a sit-in outside Rome's main courthouse
after two young people were arrested in the clashes, which drew
the ire of Premier Giorgia Meloni.
The protesters initially sought to break into a meeting at the
university's academic senate, then there were clashes when they
tried to break through a cordon of police in riot gear at an
exit and there was also trouble at a police station.
"Devastation, attacks, assaults on a Rectorate and on a police
station, with a police director getting punched. This is not
demonstrating, it's delinquency,' Meloni's said.
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