Since the early hours of this morning, Venice has been placed under strict surveillance due to the precautions adopted for the G7 summit on Justice, scheduled for today and tomorrow in the historic lagoon centre.
Long queues and serious slowdowns occurred at the beginning of the Ponte della Libertà, which connects Venice to the mainland, due to strict police checks on entering vehicles, which were slowed down and sometimes stopped.
The local police has issued two ordinances to regulate pedestrian and maritime traffic in order to guarantee the fluidity of transit, temporarily closing some streets and establishing one-way streets, especially in the area of Sant’Agostino and San Giacomo dall’Orio, the closest neighborhoods at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, headquarters of the G7.
Door-to-door waste collection has also been limited to the early hours of the morning.
Hundreds of police officers are deployed to ensure the sessions, which will take place from 2pm today until 2pm tomorrow. At 5:00 pm today, a demonstration of opponents is expected with a concentration at the Santa Lucia train station.
