Thousands of demonstrators have marched down Rome's Via Veneto and other main streets to protest a government rule requiring COVID-19 vaccines or negative tests for workers to enter their offices.
People gather in Piazza del Popolo square during a protest, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. Thousands of demonstrators protested Saturday in Rome against the COVID-19 health pass that Italian workers, both the public and private sectors, must display to access their workplaces from Oct. 15 under a government decree.
The protesters first held a noisy, authorized protest Saturday in Rome's Piazza Del Popolo. Then they left the vast square and clashed with police as they headed through Villa Borghese Park and down the Via Veneto in an unauthorized march. Rai State TV said demonstrators numbered at least 10,000, while organizers claimed 100,000 people. At least one protester was injured, RAI said. Among the protesters were proponents of an extreme right-wing group, Forza Nuova, Italian media reported.
"We won't let ourselves be intimidated,'' tweeted Federico D'Inca, the minister for parliamentary relations from the populist 5-Star Movement.
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