Overview

• Digos investigators in Turin are working to identify the masked activists behind Saturday’s blockade of the A32 Torino-Bardonecchia motorway and coordinated attacks on TAV construction sites.
• A fire overnight partially destroyed the No Tav presidio at San Didero and authorities are probing whether the blaze was a retaliatory act.
• Police unions Coisp, Fsp and Siulp have called for a targeted operation under the Security Decree to dismantle what they label No Tav “criminal factions.”
• Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has characterized the weekend’s violence as urban guerrilla warfare and vowed to use expanded powers to ensure perpetrators face justice.
• Opposition parties have criticized the government for using the unrest to justify stringent security measures and for failing to provide adequate support to frontline officers.