Overview
- Authorities sealed a zona rossa around the venue and kept demonstrators outside the perimeter.
- Officers used water cannons and smoke in response to attacks on police lines by masked groups.
- Protesters built barricades with trash bins and materials taken from nearby construction sites and used bats and other objects as weapons.
- The violent contingent split into small cells and moved through streets including Via Lame and Via Marconi to test cordons.
- Several hundred additional police and Carabinieri were deployed in Bologna, with the situation described as developing.