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Students are protesting in Rome about the upcoming G20 summit. An XXL security strategy should protect the city from riot and chaos.
- The G20 summit will take place in Rome this year. The US President, among others, will take part Joe Biden*.
- The security forces in the capital of Italy are preparing for the riot. The first demos have already started.
- Thematically, the meeting of the heads of state and government should primarily focus on the fight against Climate change and corona-Pandemic go.
+++ 9:32 p.m .: A ten square kilometer area within Rome has been closed since Friday evening. The blocking is intended to protect the politicians who have traveled to the G20 summit. As reported by foreign media, 14 underground stations are no longer accessible. There should also be traffic restrictions outside of the cordon off. From Saturday evening, other streets and parking lots in Rome will probably be closed. Attractions such as the Colosseum or Roman Forum will also remain closed for the time being.
+++ 6.20 p.m .: Activists have started protests against the presence of the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, in the course of the G20 summit. The reason for this is China’s human rights violations. Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic, is not taking part in the G20 summit himself due to extremely strict precautionary measures due to the corona pandemic.
Two Carabinieri are monitoring the situation in Rome before the G20 summit.
© Press Office Questura Di Roma / dpa
G20 summit: Joe Biden arrives at the Vatican – activists organize flash mob
+++ 2.45 p.m .: Activists from Oxfam, Amnesty International and Emergency held a flash mob protest in Rome. They call on leaders to end global inequality in access to corona vaccines and treatments for the virus.
+++ 12.45 p.m .: Meanwhile is US President Joe Biden* Arrived for a private audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican. The convoy with Biden and his wife Jill drove up to the Apostolic Palace at noon, an AFP reporter reported. According to the White House, the US President and the head of the Catholic Church wanted to talk about the fight against the corona pandemic and climate change and how to deal with poverty, among other things.
12.25 p.m .: The slogan of the demonstration currently taking place in Rome is under the motto: “Conquer the present”. “We are the future without a future,” says a banner, for example. And then again: “School, space, socializing. We’ll get everything back. “
G20 summit: protests begin in Rome – snipers in action
Il messagero reports on the speech of a fifth grader: “Let them listen to the students’ voices,” says Teo Pizzati in his speech. “We have a school that – with no results – overwhelms us. We no longer want, we no longer accept it. ”
Arming due to the G20: armed police patrol in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
© Domenico Stinellis / dpa
+++ 11.50 a.m .: The protest against the G20 summit has already started in Rome. As reported by la Repubblica, students and schoolchildren are already moving from the Circus Maximus to the Ministry of Education (Miur).
The students and pupils protest “against the methods of returning to school” in times of the corona pandemic. One slogan is addressed to the Salone delle Fontane dell’Eur, where the bilateral advance summit of finance and health ministers is meeting today. Further protest marches are planned there.
G20 summit: Rome arming against rioting – snipers in action
First report on October 29th, 2021: Rome – The most important economic powers come together in Rome at the weekend. The G20 summit will begin on Saturday (October 30th, 2021) when the heads of state and government will mainly discuss the global corona pandemic and the global climate crisis.
The first bilateral and preparatory talks will take place on Friday, after which the finance and health ministers will discuss the recovery of the global economy in the context of the corona crisis in advance. Also still finance minister Olaf Scholz* (SPD) will be represented.
G20 summit in Rome: XXL security concept against rioting
The first protests against the G20 summit in Rome are expected on Friday. But the city feels armed: Italy wants to prevent excesses and chaos in Rome with an XXL security concept. Rioting and images such as 2001 in Genoa or 2017 in Hamburg should be avoided. So far, the police say they have not assumed that there are many violent demonstrators arriving from abroad. However, tensions among many in Italy have recently intensified Protests against the corona policy* by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. There were repeated police operations.
The G20 summit is to be protected with 5296 additional security forces, including 500 soldiers. This means that around 2000 soldiers will be in the city, generally guarding important buildings such as ministries, embassies and sights. Also Joe Biden, President of the United States*, is already traveled to Italy* and will attend the summit.
In addition, Italy reintroduced border controls a few days ago. The Ministry of the Interior announced that it will be checked until 1:00 p.m. on Monday. A no-fly zone has also been set up, the airspace is monitored by a special military unit, and two dozen helicopters are said to be circling over Rome.
G20 summit in Rome: main day of protest probably Saturday with Fridays for Future
The G20 conference center Nuvola and the congress palace with the press center are located in the district called EUR – as a prestige object of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini* is applicable. The EUR is largely cordoned off by a “red zone” – snipers are posted on the roofs, the fire brigade is on site with equipment against chemical and biological weapons.
These countries take part in the G20 summit
- Argentina
- Australia
- Brazil
- China
- Germany
- France
- Great Britain
- India
- Indonesia
- Italy
- Japan
- Canada
- Mexico
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Turkey
- United States
The main day of the protests is likely to be Saturday, when a rally by the “Rifondazione Comunista” party takes place and shortly afterwards a demonstration march in which groups such as the climate initiative Fridays for Future and trade unions want to take part. Around 10,000 participants are expected.
G20 summit in Rome: Avoid images like the G20 in Hamburg
The massive security precautions can be explained by the experiences at international summits of the last decades. Again and again there have been violent riots, especially at summits in Europe. It was exactly 20 years ago that the 23-year-old Italian student Carlo Giuliani was shot by a police officer in a street battle on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Genoa.
An overview of the last five G20 meetings
| year | location |
| 2020 | Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) |
| 2019 | Osaka (Japan) |
| 2018 | Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| 2017 | Hamburg, Germany) |
| 2016 | Hangzhou (China) |
2017 in Hamburg were at the G20* around 31,000 police officers on duty. Nevertheless, there were riots, numerous property damage and looting. Hundreds of people were injured in riots and police assaults, and the police were subsequently admitted to be complicit in the escalations. (ktho / dpa)
List of rubric lists: © Press Office Questura Di Roma / dpa
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