Govt to approve deployment of 500 troops with police powers in Milan
(ANSA) – ROME, 20 OTT – The deployment of 500 troops with police powers in Milan will be among the measures Premier Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet will approve on Tuesday in response to last weekend’s rioting in by youths in the city, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said. The trouble began on Saturday on the sidelines of a demonstration over the cost-of-living crisis and continued on Sunday, with groups of youths swarming around shops and supermarkets, smashing windows and going on ransacking-and-looting rampages before quickly dispersing. They also clashed with police, hurling stones, bottles and flares at them, injuring…