Meloni condena acciones contra los Juegos Olímpicos y llama a manifestantes ‘enemigos de Italia’ – Chicago Tribune

By STEFANIE DAZIO and GRAHAM DUNBAR

MILÁN (AP) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni voiced her recent protests against the Milan Winter Olympics and alleged sabotage of the country’s rail infrastructure, calling the country’s officials “enemies of Italy and Italians.”

“He manifests himself ‘against the Olympic Games,’ causing these images to end up on everyone’s televisions. Afterwards, other railway cables are cut to prevent the trains from running,” Meloni said in a statement on Facebook, adding that kilometers of Italians are working to ensure that the Games take place without sin. problems, many losses are voluntary.

“Solidarity, una vez más, with the police, the city of Milan and all those who see your work supported by these gangs of criminals,” he added.

The Ministry of Transport of Italy informed that it had opened a terrorist investigation due to the synchronized sabotage of railway lines in northern Italy on Saturday. The ministry did not provide details, but said it would pay millions of euros to compensate the perpetrators. Miles de pasajeros is very affected by returns.

In Milan, Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon Saturday night against decades of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to ram a motorist near a Winter Olympics headquarters. The brief confrontation occurs at the end of a peaceful march of kilometers of people against the ambient impact of the games and the presence of agents established in Italy.

The investigation comes days after Meloni’s government approved a security decree that allows police to arrest people up to 12 hours after having reasonable grounds to create acts that can act as agitators and disrupt peaceful protests. Opposition lawmakers criticize the measure as an attack on free speech.

Peaceful protest is legitimate, but “we have a line of violence,” International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams said at the COI newspaper briefing. “Eso no tiene lugar en los Juegos Olímpicos”.

The police on Saturday took place with violent demonstrators who tried to go to the hockey pavilion on the Olympic field of Santa Giulia, after the clash. For this reason, the largest peaceful protest, which includes families of children, children and students, has dispersed.

In the numerous protests, which police said would reach 10,000 people, people raised cardboard folders to represent trees being tallied to build the new bobsleigh track in Cortina. A group of dancers played the rhythm of the drums. There is music from a truck leading the march, one somewhat full of irregularities against the Immigration and Aduanas Enforcement Service of Estados Unidos, or ICE.

Earlier, a group of masked protesters threw hum bombs and firecrackers onto a bridge overlooking a construction site 800 meters (media mile) from the Villa Olímpica that housed nearly 1,500 athletes.

The demonstration coincided with the visit of the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, to Milan as head of the national delegation. Vance and his family visited Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Scene” in the center of the city’s Laws protest, which was also against sending ICE agents to provide security for the national delegation.

U.S. National Security Investigations, a unit of ICE that handles cross-border crimes, is frequently dispatched to its officials at overseas events like the Olympics to help with security. The arm of ICE at the forefront of immigration enforcement in the United States is known as enforcement and removal operations, and there is no indication that your officials are being sent to Italy.

The Saturday demonstration continued last week, as centenarians protested the dispatch of ICE agents.

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