Another morning of tension is being experienced in the Don Bosco park area, on the outskirts of Bologna, with clashes that have left some injured. The Police Headquarters explains that a couple of officers were hit, while the protesters say that a girl was injured with a truncheon. This is the public order service, which began yesterday, ordered by the Bologna Police Headquarters itself to allow the felling of some trees in Viale Aldo Moro by a company appointed by the Municipality of the works for the tram. According to the Police Headquarters, the police attempted dialogue to convince the demonstrators to desist, but without success, as they continued to resist “passively and actively with verbal attacks and insults”. The police explain that some of the demonstrators who had sat at the foot of the trees were lifted and accompanied a short distance away, while larger groups who continued with a hostile attitude were pushed back with light pushes and in some cases with the use of shields, without the use of truncheons. One policeman was hit by a punch, another by a slap. A young protester was also injured after taking a blow to the head. “From 6 this morning – writes the Police Headquarters in a note – the service immediately proved problematic due to the presence in the area of approximately 50-60 people, attributable to the Besta protest committee, positioned inside the park in a to hinder the implementation of the planned works. In particular, the demonstrators positioned themselves in several points of the park, preventing the workers from approaching the trees, sitting and lying at the base of them, or tying themselves up and even positioning themselves on top of the branches” “A protester, an Italian boy, who had positioned himself on a tree, punched an operator of the Mobile Department who was trying to make him come down, which is why he was taken to the local police headquarters in order to proceed within the terms of the law; also an Italian girl who hit a Digos operator with a slap. : a young woman was apparently injured by a blow to the head and rescued by 118. Some trees – they further write – were cut down even though there were people clinging to the branches. Finally, the note from the Police Headquarters explains that, “despite the serious difficulties, the public order service has so far allowed the felling of approximately 8 trees, guaranteeing part of the felling operations scheduled for today”.
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