While protests are multiplying across Italy against the compulsory health pass, called there, "Green Pass" or "Green Pass", the tension rose a notch this Thursday, this time, in the middle of the hemicycle.
During debates concerning the Covid decree and the application of the pass, deputies from the populist Brothers of Italy party invaded the heart of the chamber, signs in hand saying no to the “Green Pass”.
One of them even pushed back the parliament's security service, which intervened to stop the demonstration of opposition, before running away.
The speaker of parliament had to suspend the session.
From August 6, the health pass should be compulsory throughout the country, to access closed places such as bars and restaurants, but also swimming pools, sports halls, museums, cinemas and theaters as well as games rooms.
Italy is not the first country to impose a health pass. It had been the key to deconfinement in Israel, which abolished it on June 1, before reestablishing it at the end of June in the face of the spread of the Delta variant. In France, the health pass has been compulsory since July 21 to access cultural places. It should be extended from August 9 to bars, restaurants and interregional transport.
