From the «no ifs, ands, or buts» to the clarifications of the day after. Calling into question the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi. «I condemn without ifs, ands, or buts the unacceptable violence that occurred yesterday in Piedmont», declares 24 hours after the attack no Tav Angelo Bonelli, AVS parliamentarian and leader of the Greens, in a statement to news channels and agencies, only to then retort: «The right should stop making unspeakable accusations of complicity with those who committed these acts. Those sixty boys dressed in black are known throughout Europe and also in Italy. Where was Minister Piantedosi? Why didn’t he stop them sooner?», he asks.
To be honest, on the eve of the three-day “festival of happiness” 2026 edition, the prefect of Turin, Donato Giovanni Cafagna, had preventively imposed on organizers and demonstrators a ban on approaching highways and high-speed rail construction sites, covering their faces, and possessing glass bottles, while the police headquarters had issued 14 urban Daspo orders and expulsion notices from Venaus.
Evidently, among thousands of peaceful activists (the No Tav camp would have attracted 20,000 people according to the organizers), hundreds of barricade-builders have infiltrated, moving from one event to another to protest. From the pro-Pal front to large infrastructures, even in this case the black block don’t seem to be too subtle when it comes to launching an assault.
