Italian trade unionists and student activists were attacked and detained by the police in Naples on Saturday, in a bid to crack down on protests and blockades as the far-right Brothers of Italy is presenting new repressive laws in parliament, activists from SI Cobas union have told Middle East Solidarity. The arrests of Mimi and Dario, who are members of Tendenza Internazionalista Rivoluzionaria, and Francesco, a student activist, came after the police attacked and beat up peaceful demonstrators protesting against the presence of Israeli pharmaceutical company TEVA at the Overseas Exhibition in Naples. 

In a statement, TIR said: 

“The attack was apparently a punitive expedition against comrades who in the past two years have been at the head of protests against the genocide in Gaza, as well as against the Italian government’s support to Israel and its rearmament policy and participation in the Ukraine war with the delivery of weapons. In particular, they led demonstrations against a factory of Leonardo, Italy’s major arms producer, and two blockades of the port of Salerno, where Israeli ZIM ships were docking.”

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