Clashes and Looting in Milan, Italy, for Second Day

Clashes erupted between youths and police for the second consecutive day on Sunday in Milan, Italy’s economic capital, as vandals threw bottles and damaged shops in the city center’s Cathedral district.

The violence began on the sidelines of a protest against the high cost of living. Police in the major cities of the Lombardy region arrested around 70 people since Saturday, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.

The clashes in Milan started on Saturday during a permitted protest against the high cost of living.

Speaking to ANSA on Sunday, he said, “What happened here is what we are witnessing in many cities around the world.” He added, “I am very concerned because a new phenomenon is also emerging from the international context, and thus feeding itself.”

Meloni, whose coalition government of the right and far-right faces new elections in 2027, described the vandals on Saturday as “thugs who exploit protests to spread chaos, attack those responsible for security, and hold entire cities hostage.”