Conflict & Security
Meloni calls emergency security meeting after Milan cost-of-living protests turn violent
October 19, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Italian PM Meloni to hold emergency meeting after weekend of violent clashes
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ميلوني تعلن عن اجتماع طارئ لإنهاء الشغب والفوضى فى إيطاليا
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ميلانو تشتعل.. نهب المتاجر و200 معتفل فى الاحتجاجات الإيطالية (فيديو)
(opens the publisher’s site)Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will convene an emergency security meeting Monday after weekend cost-of-living protests in Milan escalated into violent clashes.
- Police in Milan deployed tear gas and water cannons after masked protesters threw paving stones and objects at officers, with disorder spreading to Turin and Bologna.
- More than 200 people were detained across Saturday and Sunday, 80 percent of them minors, and prosecutors requested prison sentences for five adults arrested for looting.
- Meloni said "to demonstrate is a right. To lay our cities to waste is not," and called on political opponents to condemn the rioting "unanimously."
- Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said the violence was a "new phenomenon" that "originates from an international scenario and therefore feeds itself."