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In Rome, protesters threw stones, bottles and small homemade cherry bombs at the police, who responded by shooting tear gas at the crowd and forcing them back with the help of their armoured cars. They then went on to arrest eight people and bash them in the face with batons while they lay defenceless on the floor. It's nice to see the police protecting and serving.Turin


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One of the bottles broke right next to me and shards of glass were flung up towards my face. The pelting went on for an hour and a half before the police retaliated with grenades, bangers and baton charges. I was stuck directly in the middle of the protesters, getting crushed from all sides, but luckily the masses acted as a shield against the poluce beatings, with officers screaming "Don't say you weren't warned!" while violently swinging their batons, because that's apparently the best way of justifying completely needless violence.When I finally got out of the crowd, I ran until I found a random building to take cover in and listened to the sound of rubber bullets firing off outside.

Photos by Felipe Hernández.
Madrid

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Text and photos by groundpress.org.





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