After the police attacks of February 23, students return to the streets of Pisa and Florence. Today Saturday, March 2 at 2 p.m., the demonstration will begin in the center of the city of the Leaning Tower. From Vittorio Emanuele Square, demonstrators will reach Piazza dei Cavalieri, where a week ago – during the pro-Palestinian march – the police beat young people who had gathered to demand a ceasefire in Gaza . At 6 p.m., again today, the procession will take place in Florence. After the controversy of recent days, the transfer of police director Silvia Conti and the my fault police officers followed by self-identification, today's protests have been regularly reported. According to the first data published yesterday, thousands of participants were expected in the procession also called with the aim of reiterating the demand for “resignation of the police commissioner after the events of last Friday” by the student collectives.
Confirmation of police station
The Pisa police headquarters confirmed the communication from the secondary school network. “The Coordination of college students has announced a demonstration for tomorrow (today, ed). The event will start at 2:00 p.m. from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele and will take place in the city center”, we can read in the note. As a precautionary measure, the tourist path located at the height of the medieval walls, which crosses at certain points the The route of the street demonstrations, will be closed from 1 p.m. In the Tuscan capital, the grassroots unions, on the other hand, have communicated the route of the procession. Here, in all likelihood, a sort of “red zone” will be created which will prevent any contact between the demonstrators and the police. The police headquarters, writes the Corriere della Sera, established that everyone has an “invisible employment profile”. Translated: there will be continents aligned at sensitive points, but their presence must be imperceptible.
Self-identification
The police officers involved in the events in Pisa have decided to take responsibility. Some of them were filmed beating minor students with batons. The names of the agents appeared in information sent by the police headquarters to the prosecution. “The police actively contributed to their precise identification,” the report read. The choice of officers should speed up both internal investigations and prosecutorial assessments. At present, the Pisa case, as well as the similar one in Florence for the riots in front of the American consulate on the same day, are without suspects and investigations continue based on videos, service reports and initial information . But the list adds to the duty reports of the same officers involved that day who had already reconstructed, from their point of view, what had happened. Meanwhile, the parents of the stubby boys have promised class action lawsuits.
Event data
The data speaks of a 40% increase in demonstrations during the first two months of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023: this year, between January and February, there were 2,822 demonstrations of marked interest in public order, compared to 1,994 last year. Events that experienced critical issues this year were 1.6%, down sharply from 3.5% in 2023.
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