Anti-fascist demonstrators today marched in Rome after last week's protest against the Italian Green Pass was hijacked by members of an extreme right party who tried to force their way into Parliament.
Left-wing former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema and populist Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte took part in the demonstration on St John Lateran Square this afternoon.
Protestors held signs reading 'si vax' and released balloons in the square while anti-fascists demonstrators lit flares during the event organised by Italy's main labour unions.
Organisers put the crowd assembled in front of St John Lateran basilica for the protest at 100,000-strong.
The head of the CGIL union confederation, Maurizio Landini, led the protest with other labour leaders under the slogan: 'Never again fascism.'
Last week neo-fascist used the protests against the new Government rule to trash the left-leaning Italian General Confederation of Labour's — which supports the rule to force all workers to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to get into their office — headquarters.
Demonstrators take part in a march organised by Italy's main labor unions in Rome's St John Lateran Square today
A man holds up a banner reading in Italian 'Yes vax' as he takes part in a march organised after neo-fascists trashed left-leaning Italian General Confederation of Labour's headquarters
Protestors lit flares and held their fists in the air during the event in Rome organised by Italy's main labour unions today
Anti-fascist demonstrators march through Rome today holding Antifa banners and flags and shouting slogans through megaphones
Former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema took part in the demonstration on St John Lateran Square this afternoon
President of the Five Star Movement (M5S), former Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte (right) attends an anti-fascist rally called by Italian Labour unions CGIL, CISL and UIL at Piazza San Giovanni in Rome
Some 10,000 opponents of that government decree turned out in Rome’s vast Piazza del Popolo last Saturday in a protest that degenerated
