Contact between police and underage protesters to defeat -min - Politics. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi on Thursday during a briefing to parliament on the violence used by police against young pro-Palestine demonstrators in Pisa and Florence last Friday.
"We all hope that public demonstrations take place peacefully and without incidents, and when physical contact is made with minors it is in any case a defeat," he said. Five young protesters were hospitalized with injuries sustained during clashes with police in an episode that sparked a public outcry in Italy.