Rome, 26 October 2021 – Check point at the access gates, sharpshooters on the terraces of the buildings, helicopters in flight with night vision goggles, special anti-terrorism units ready for action. It will be one an armored city that will host the G20 on 30 and 31 October, a large red zone will start at EUR, within a radius of ten square kilometers. To worry the police are the protests against the green pass, which could lead to unrest during the summit that will bring the highest international authorities to the capital over the weekend closing of G20 the Italian presidency. A demonstration in Piazza San Giovanni against the Draghi government is also scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday there was the first of the technical tables aimed at safety plan that the Police Headquarters and the Prefecture are developing these days, including a wide “no-fly zone”, Nbcr core teams (Nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological) of specialized firefighters against bacteriological threats, drainage reclamation and underground inspections will start already with the intervention of the bomb squad and dog units with anti-explosive dogs. One of the most difficult moments for law enforcement will be the arrival of the US president Joe Biden, which will land at the military airport of Pratica di Mare and will be escorted by an inter-force task force, which will also see the Italian Army deployed. Overflight drones ed Eurofighter ready for take-off in case of an air attack they will be used for the safety of the skies above the capital. In high-risk areas, there will be manned access gates to guarantee entry only to the top authorities and accredited insiders, with sharpshooters located on the roofs at strategic points. Affected by remediation also other areas of the capital where the heads of state and government of the various countries will go G20. Nightmare clashes: military and drones also deployed
Environmentalists already lined up around the EUR
The closing of the G20 the Italian presidency is approaching and the Climate Camp activists, an environmental camp that goes through the mobilizations for the climate throughout Europe, lands in Rome and demonstrates in front of the headquarters of the summit, the La Nuvola congress center in the Eur district. A few dozen activists have opened one banner in front of the venue with the inscription: “Lcatastrophe arrives, it’s time to act!“. The invitation is to the 20 big countries of the world, which would be late with the effective activation of a global intervention plan against climate changes and for the environmental and social justice.
The police intervened, according to sources close to the organizers of the protest, have stopped activists which are now at the police station in via Cristoforo Colombo. “The institutions are inflexible on managing and suppressing dissent and a dangerous banner – explain the animators of the Roman Committee of Water Movements -. Much less in taking action against climate change and environmental devastation. Muscle tests are of no interest to us. For this it is only the beginning and we will not stop mobilizing. Because your solutions are the problem “, they conclude. Raids and striking demonstrations had already taken place in Naples and Venice during the last thematic G20s.
After the global climate action day on October 22, the Fridays For Future launch the next parade on Saturday 30 October, on the occasion of the final negotiations of G20, together with the numerous realities of the Care Society, the basic unions and the Roman social spaces, as well as the delegations of the workers of the Gkn and Ilva. “During the preCOP of Milan we have heard so many good speeches, but once again the ‘bla bla bla’ have not followed concrete commitments. Governments continue to offer us false solutions that allow CO2 emissions to increase rather than decrease, for example: plants for capturing CO2 from fossil fuels or the carbon credit market “say the activists.
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