{"id":11541,"date":"2017-03-12T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/italy-protests-anti-eu-leaders-visit-sparks-violence-in-naples\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T00:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T00:15:03","slug":"italy-protests-anti-eu-leaders-visit-sparks-violence-in-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/italy-protests-anti-eu-leaders-visit-sparks-violence-in-naples\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy protests: Anti-EU leader&#8217;s visit sparks violence in Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Media captionProtesters clash with police in Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Italian police have clashed with protesters in Naples amid a visit by the leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League party.<\/p>\n<p>Riot police fired tear gas and used water cannon against masked groups armed with Molotov cocktails, local media report.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were marching through the southern city in opposition to the Northern League&#039;s anti-EU policies.<\/p>\n<p>The party, led by Matteo Salvini, is looking to gain support in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations in the city were largely peaceful, but violence broke out after a small group of individuals with their faces covered threw bottles and other objects at police.<\/p>\n<p>People in the immediate area sought refuge in nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      The protest turned violent after a group of masked demonstrators hurled objects at the police                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  EPA<figcaption>Image caption                                      The riot officers responded by firing tear gas at the crowds                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Salvini decided to go ahead with his party&#039;s rally in Naples on Saturday despite the planned protests. It is the first time that he has planned to address crowds in southern Italy.<\/p>\n<p>His party, based in the affluent north of the country, has long disparaged the south, but Mr Salvini is trying to capitalise on anti-immigrant sentiment in the region.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a small number of protesters displaying a banner that read &quot;Naples doesn&#039;t want you&quot; occupied the convention centre in Naples where Mr Salvini was due to speak. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian interior ministry had to intervene to ensure that Saturday&#039;s rally could go ahead. <\/p>\n<p>The Northern League has recently tried to broaden its base and make inroads in the south by capitalising on what it believes to be populist, anti-immigrant sentiments in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-39245106 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media captionProtesters clash with police in Italy Italian police have clashed with protesters in Naples amid a visit by the leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League party. Riot police fired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}