Violent clashes broke out with police at Rome's La Sapienza University on Tuesday. Two young people were arrested in the clashes, which drew the ire of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Protesters initially sought to break into a meeting at the university's academic senate, then there were clashes when they tried to break through a cordon of police in riot gear at anexit, and there was also trouble at a police station. "Devastation, attacks, assaults on a Rectorate and on a police station, with a police director getting punched. This is not demonstrating, it's delinquency," Meloni said. The students are staged a sit-in outside Rome's main courthouse after two young people were arrested. They are protesting against Italian universities' cooperation with Israeli institutions amid the war in Gaza. The protesters are calling for an end to the Israeli military's involvement in the conflict in the Middle East.