Overview
- Roughly 3,000 No Tav protesters assembled in Venaus and split into factions targeting Chiomonte and San Didero construction sites.
- Activists dismantled fencing and torched chemical toilets and a container at both rail works to disrupt high-speed rail construction.
- Another group seized the Torino-Bardonecchia A32 highway, erecting barricades of nets, wood and brush before setting them alight and halting traffic in both directions.
- Italian police responded with water cannons to disperse demonstrators after officers were targeted with stones and firecrackers.
- Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi condemned the unrest as a true act of urban guerrilla warfare and vowed to prosecute those responsible.