Turin, City Hall daubed with graffiti against Trump and police during rally

A flash mob protesting the death of George Floyd, the 48-year-old American man killed during a police stop on May 25 last year, was held in Turin on Saturday.The sit-in, which included an 8-minute and 46-second silence (the time during which the policeman kept his knee pressed on Floyd’s neck) was held in accordance with anti-coronavirus rules. At the end of the demonstration, however, another procession carried out some vandalism against Palazzo di Città, the seat of Turin’s city hall.

In particular, the outside walls were daubed with writing against Trump and the police, and the statue of Victor Emmanuel II was also covered with spray paint. A minor political clash also took place around the episode, between 5 Star Movement city councilor Andrea Russi and Pd district councilor Gianvito Pontrandolfo. “I find it absolutely shareable,” Russi said, “to express disagreement with gratuitous violence. Unfortunately, however, a part of the protesters had the nice idea of defacing the walls and statues of the Civic Palace, exercising against the public cultural heritage, therefore the community, another form of violence, equally shameful and deplorable.” Russi finally hopes for the hope that “the bona fide protesters, who fortunately represented almost the entirety of the square yesterday, can find the courage to disassociate themselves from this havoc.” Pontrandolfo focuses on Russi’s concept of violence and replies, “Just as much. You clean up the monument and in any case it has no life. George Floyd, on the other hand, was a human being.”

Pictured is the defaced Victor Emmanuel monument.

Turin, City Hall daubed with graffiti against Trump and police during rally

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