From Trieste to Palermo, passing through Turin, Verona, Perugia and Rome: several thousand people demonstrated in front of the RAI headquarters, chanting slogans against censorship and the "stop of the genocide" in Palestine.
Sit ins and marches linked to the controversy that arose from the statement from the CEO of Viale Mazzini, Roberto Sergio, after the tensions that arose in Sanremo.
"Not in our name. Rai Radio Televisione Israeliana", the poster unrolled in Rome during the demonstration in which students took part.
A procession then broke away from the garrison and reached
the headquarters in via Teulada, in the Prati district.
"There are 5,000 of us", the movements announced over the megaphone.
Video Palestine, thousands march against RAI in Rome
Same scenes in other cities.
Moments of strong tension in Verona due to the two simultaneous demonstrations organized in the city by animal rights activists against hunting
- in conjunction with the Eos event scheduled for the fair - and a second in favor of the Palestinian cause.
The pro-Palestine procession, with around a hundred people present, started off as peaceful but became lively once it arrived in via dell'Industria when some demonstrators, with flags and banners in favor of Gaza, attempted to force the police cordon and enter the fair
from the entrance of King Theodoric.
In Trieste, a few dozen gathered waving flags and displaying various banners to ask for "Stop the genocide"
and "Enough with Israel's unpunished crimes".
In Turin a procession of two thousand people crossed the streets of the centre.
Various groups joined the demonstration, including Arab associations, student collectives, Cub and the flies.
The appointment was the first after the tensions that broke out in front of the RAI Turin headquarters on Tuesday.
Student collectives, social centers, Si Cobas, Cub, the Arab association and mosques also took to the streets.
When the procession arrived in Piazza Castello, blow-ups of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were burned
.
Video Pro-Palestine procession in Turin, photos of Meloni and Netanyahu burned
Other protesters climbed the monument dedicated to Emanuele Filiberto Duca D'Aosta to wave Palestinian flags.
A garrison of several dozen people also in front of the headquarters of the public company in
Pescara
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"Cease fire" and "stop censorship" were the chants shouted in front of
Rai's Umbria headquarters, in Perugia.
A demonstration that took place peacefully.
On the pizza also representatives and flags of the UDU, CGIL and SPI CGIL, Article 21, Arci clubs, Student Network, Omphalos and some citizens thus also joined the appeal of the RAI workers who dissociated themselves "from the words of the CEO Roberto Sergio".
Some signs were shown against him, but also against the Meloni government, during the demonstration.
"The attempt to censor those who call for a ceasefire and peace and speak out against the genocide in Gaza is behavior that we consider unjustifiable and which fuels and justifies the climate of war" said the university student representatives.
Initiative also in Palermo
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Some of the participants displayed signs with slogans such as 'Italy guilty of free Palestine' and 'Regime information sees and hears nothing'.
During the sit-in, a delegation from the Palermo Palestine Solidarity Network met the editor-in-chief Rino Cascio, giving him a document on the contents of the protest.
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