No Tav, activists: “10,000 agents will not be enough to stop us”

“10,000 agents will not be enough to stop the No Tav”. The movement writes on social media, claiming what happened yesterday afternoon, when – we read – “despite a huge deployment of law enforcement agencies, a group of No Tav, coming down from the woods, managed to enter the construction site near the ‘archaeological area of ​​Chiomonte cutting the nets and putting out of use an army jeep lynx ”. In the clashes yesterday afternoon, two policemen were injured and five police vehicles were damaged. All this, according to the No Tav activists, “shows that nothing can be done by a mercenary and bewildered army against the determination and knowledge of the territory of those who are rooted in this valley”. An answer to what was stated by the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, who a few days ago during the question time in the Chamber announced that she had assigned 9,356 reinforcement units to the police forces in the Turin office in July, precisely to follow the protests in Val di Susa.
“I express my closeness and solidarity to the two agents who were injured in the clashes last night near the Chiomonte construction site”, said Lamorgese, thanking all the women and men of the police and the army committed every day to protect the security and public order in Val di Susa. “Episodes of very serious violence which endanger the safety of police officers and which have nothing to do with the right to demonstrate freely are absolutely unacceptable”, added the owner of the Interior Ministry. police forces in Valsusa during clashes with members of the most extremist wing of the No Tav Movement. As far as we know, they would not be seriously injured. The riots began when a group of about 150 demonstrators broke away from the largest part of the procession which started from Venaus and headed for Giaglione and reached the gate of the Tav yard on the Gallo Romano path, cutting parts of concertina. After the throwing of paper and stone bombs against the police, the riots moved near the A32 motorway which is still closed as a precaution. order around the area where the Turin-Lyon high-speed construction site is located, in addition to two injured policemen, 5 police vehicles were also damaged. of about 300 protesters misrepresented with stones, smoke bombs and paper bombs in the direction of the police placed to protect the area where the construction site is located, ended around 19.30.