Tension at the sit-in no mask in Rome, a protester stopped

Tensions at the demonstration taking place in Rome, in Piazza San Giovanni, where

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"Shame shame" some protesters shout as others approach the police force shouting, "you have to arrest us all".

A group of protesters shouted "freedom, freedom".

"All for a mask - some explained - only because he refused to give the name they took him away like that. It's a shame".

Also in the square was a plastic skeleton with a mask that reads "I am not dead of coronavirus but of hunger" and flags of the Italian sovereign front.

Among the displayed signs "I am not a denier. I am here because I do not want the dictatorship" and "L as freedom optional mask".

There are no more than a few dozen, mostly with the orange vest, the no mask protesters in Piazza Bocca della Verità, in Rome, for the sit-in against the use of the mask as an anti-Covid function and in general against the management government of the pandemic.

"We are not deniers, that term is used for those who deny the Holocaust, while I believe both the Shoah and Covid - says one of them, mask lowered on his chin to talk to reporters -. But here we have reached the point that the The Constitution no longer exists and one can neither disagree nor demonstrate ".

"The mask is harmful, it makes us breathe our carbon dioxide - says Paolo Martini, 54, a sports manager who came from Frosinone -. We want a technical-scientific committee that is also open to authoritative professors who think differently and that no one listens. Why don't I get up. the mask? There is a law that prohibits the distortion of the face. If we want to respect the laws, let's respect them all ".

According to another, "three children have already died in Germany of asphyxiation".

Numerous policemen present in the square observe the small sit-in from a distance, which had a moment of tension when two young men who were cursing the press were turned away by an elderly man in an orange vest who called himself a "retired police commissioner" .

"They are provocative," he said.

But the journalists were later subjected to insults by other militants.

There is a widespread idea among the protesters that Covid is not at all as lethal as it is thought and none of them seem to have even an acquaintance who has fallen ill.

Several profess integralist Catholicism.

"Dab the c ..." is a sign that stands out in the group.

Another reads in English "fear is used to control you".

On 5 September a similar no mask demonstration had gathered several hundred people.

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