OfAlberto Giulini
The occupation of the tracks at the end of the demonstration lasted an hour, with traffic suspended for a long time. The march then blocked the avenue in front of the city’s first station with the bonfire of an Israeli flag
It was just after 6pm when part of the procession pro Palestine of about five hundred people, started from New Palace in Turin on Saturday afternoon, he decides to divert his route to enter through a secondary entrance New door, the city’s main railway station on via Nizza. And to start blocking the tracks, starting from platforms 5 and 6. All the entrance gates to the station were manned by the police, the demonstrators would therefore have forced a gate on via Nizza to enter.
Traffic then resumed only after 8pm. Meanwhile, protesters had briefly blocked traffic Corso Vittorioin front of the station, where it was given in a bonfire fire at an Israeli flag.
The procession began in the early afternoon between Palestinian flags and red-green-white smoke bombs. «For four weeks university students have been calling for an academic boycott against Israeli universities and companies that produce weapons – explain the university students on the street -. We feel the responsibility not to be complicit in the genocide and therefore not to allow our knowledge to be put at the service of the paradigm of war that is prevailing throughout the world.”
«In the absence of a surrender on the part of the student intifada, the university management found itself forced to grant a public and in-person moment to allow us to present the motion on the termination of the agreements and the setting up of an extraordinary Senate to vote on the proposal – the boys underline. On 11 and 13 June there will be these two first moments which will mark an important step in the direction of weakening the Zionist entity in all its manifestations.”
During the procession a group of hooded men armed with fire extinguishers filled with red paint daubed the facade of the Intesa Sanpaolo bank in via San Francesco d’Assisi. Smoke bombs and torches were lit while the speaker said from the microphone: «The problem of the agreements with the university depends on this bank. The university is public and we fight for this every day.” In addition to the paint, writings were made accusing the bank of complicity with Israel. An Eni distributor was also defaced.
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June 8, 2024 (modified June 8, 2024 | 8:19 pm)
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