"A peaceful demonstration in Milan on Saturday, near the Olympic Village in northern Italy, has ended in clashes with police. Earlier on Saturday, upwards of 10,000 people marched towards the Olympic Village, but later on, once the larger peaceful group of protesters had left, a smaller group had violent confrontations with police. Flares and stones were thrown at police, who dispersed protesters with batons, water cannons and tear gas following the otherwise peaceful march."
"Protesters took to the streets over the environmental impact of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which got underway on Friday. 'Let's take back the cities and free the mountains,' one banner by a group calling itself the Unsustainable Olympic Committee read. At the larger, peaceful demonstration which police said had 10,000 demonstrators people carried cardboard cutouts representing the trees cut down to build the new bobsled run in Cortina."
A peaceful demonstration in Milan near the Olympic Village drew about 10,000 people marching against the environmental impact of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Protesters carried cardboard cutouts representing trees cut for a new Cortina bobsled run and displayed banners reading 'Let's take back the cities and free the mountains.' After the larger peaceful group left, a smaller masked group set off smoke bombs, flares, firecrackers and fireworks, and threw stones at police. Police dispersed them with batons, water cannons and tear gas. The protests also targeted the presence of US ICE officers protecting visiting US officials amid a heavy Italian security deployment.
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