Italian students demonstrated against
work experience in 40 cities and towns across Italy Friday after
the recent deaths of two teens while on the job in Udine and
Marche.
In Turin tensions ran high as a group of students tried to get
into the local HQ of industrial employers group Confindustria,
and were pushed back by police with some batons being wielded.
At least four officers were hurt.
Masked protesters wielding the sticks holding up their placards
broke through the gate of the Industrial Union, forcing
Carabinieri to baton charge them to repel them.
The allegedly heavy handed policing of recent such student
protests has been criticised but Italian authorities say the
incidents were provoked by anarchist agents provocateurs and
extremist fringes of the student movement.
The students are protesting the deaths at Udine of 18-year-old
work experience student Lorenzo Parelli and that in Marche of
16-year-old Giuseppe Lenoci.
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