The Italian Left is backing people violent to cause unrest as seen at recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations where the police have been accused of heavy-handed tactics, Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party said Saturday.
"Brothers of Italy defends the democratic rules of coexistence that are based on the right to demonstrate and the duty to do peacefully and within the law," it said.
"The left that supports the violence is the cause of the riots we witnessed".
Many Italians were shocked by video footage of police hitting protesters repeatedly over the head with their truncheons after the students and others tried to reach the US consulates in Florence and Pisa on Friday.
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