Overview

• The Stop Rearm Europe march drew around 5,000 participants from Porta San Paolo to the Colosseum in Rome as part of a European mobilization against military spending during the NATO summit in The Hague.
• Organizers from 430 associations, including Arci, Acli and Greenpeace Italy, led protesters through the city with slogans opposing war, rearmament, genocide and authoritarianism.
• The demonstration culminated in a coordinated die-in at the Colosseum, with participants lying on white sheets to symbolize civilian victims in Gaza while bombings were played on loudspeakers.
• Giuseppe Conte, Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli joined the protest while Elly Schlein remained abroad; the three, alongside Schlein’s signature, filed a motion in parliament to revoke the military cooperation memorandum with Israel.
• A parallel rally by Potere al Popolo and Palestinian student movements departed from Piazza Vittorio toward the Fori Imperiali with more radical demands targeting Italy’s Middle East policy.