The tractors have surrounded Rome and are ready to enter and march. On Nomentana, at number 1111, the permanent garrison on private land is increasingly increasing in number. Then there are the other meeting points in Torrimpietra, Fiano Romano, Capena and Cecchina. On the other hand, as the farmers said, 1,500 vehicles from various parts of Italy should converge on Thursday afternoon. Thursday or Friday at the latest, according to the wishes of those protesting, the aim is to parade through the streets of the centre, perhaps in front of the Colosseum.
The summit in the prefecture
The first step will be to bring together all the souls who populate the protest to have a common representation in the meeting that will be held today with the prefecture and police headquarters of Rome. “If we come to the capital to do a sit-in, we’ll at least take a walk with the tractor to the Imperial Forums. We in the area of Viterbo and Colli Cimini are around 200”, the thought of Antonio Monfelli, a farmer from Viterbo in the Cra (Committees meeting farmers).
According to what we learn, however, the parade in the heart of the capital, with tractors, appears to be a difficult option, both for a simple traffic problem, but also for safety. This is why a compromise could be found with the tractors, not all of them, positioned in an area within the ring road and the farmers without vehicles, instead, with a sit in in the centre.
Today we will know more. “We have set up 6 or 7 stations around the city, where we will amass all the vehicles arriving from the 8th onwards. These are stations on the outskirts, which will not hinder traffic”, assures the agricultural entrepreneur Andrea Papa of the Riscatto Agricolo movement . The garrisons of Torreimpietra and Nomentana will remain until the 8th, then they will be dismantled.
The souls of the protest
As mentioned, it is the different souls that are giving rise to the wave of farmers’ protest in Italy, in the wake of what has already happened in other European countries. From the former pitchforks to ‘Agricultural redemption’ passing through old acquaintances of the far right and anti-system movements.
The best-known face of the mobilization is Danilo Calvani. It is he, a former pitchfork, who leads the ‘Committee of betrayed farmers’, the acronym ‘Cra’, which has started mobilizations in various parts of Italy for days. Also supporting the protests is Giuliano Castellino, with his ‘Ancora Italia’, who will take to the streets alongside the category.
At least that’s what he made it known. In a video posted on social media, the former Roman exponent of Forza Nuova, riding a red tractor, announces: “The Rome of dissent is ready to welcome our brother farmers. With the farmers, with the people of the land, a united people against Brussels”. Among the acronyms of the protest, ‘Agricultural redemption’ also stands out, the movement led by the Tuscan Salvatore Fais who in recent hours had launched the ‘March on Rome’, moving a column of tractors from Valdichiana.