His photo with his face covered in blood after the incidents that occurred outside the RAI in Naples is making the rounds on the web:
"Fortunately I'm fine - Mimì Ercolano, 45 years old, a trade unionist from Si Cobas, tells ANSA - but we were victims of a violent, disproportionate and unexpected reaction, hit with truncheons just for trying to put up a banner at the Rai gates".
For further information Agenzia ANSA Shoving and truncheons in front of the Rai headquarters in Naples - News - Ansa.it Demonstration organized after the controversy following the singer's performance in Sanremo and for his words against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Five policemen and five protesters were injured, none in serious condition
Mimì explains that she has been treated for her head wound, "I have a headache and a five-day prognosis, but I am ready to take to the streets again immediately if necessary".
Neapolitan, three children, a past as a naturalist, in her history as an activist she has participated in numerous demonstrations and had already found herself involved in clashes with the police,
"but this time - she says - we really didn't expect it, we were there peacefully, only armed of our flags, and instead it ended like this.
A disproportionate reaction that says a lot about the new style of the police headquarters towards street demonstrations".
Four other activists were injured with her (the most serious, three stitches and a ten-day prognosis) and five officers.
As for the reasons for the protest, Mimì is keen to underline that "we did not take to the streets for
Ghali, as was hastily reported by some media. He is nice, but the underlying problem is the attitude of a Rai that decides to take the distances from the word 'genocide'
. All in an increasingly heavy climate of attack on wages, attack on political viability, in which families cannot put food on the table and the usual suspects profit from conflicts".
The Naples Social Network for Palestine, promoter of this morning's initiative, adds: "Public TV is the media escort of the Israeli genocide. Not only do they constantly censor the genocide underway in Gaza, but they express an openly pro-Zionist position in front of millions of viewers. Even before a delegation could be created to request an interview, our garrison was violently attacked."
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