{"id":23923,"date":"2026-10-20T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/italy-sends-500-soldiers-to-milan-after-thugs-smash-up-city\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:34:45","slug":"italy-sends-500-soldiers-to-milan-after-thugs-smash-up-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/italy-sends-500-soldiers-to-milan-after-thugs-smash-up-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Sends 500 Soldiers to Milan After Thugs Smash Up City\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Italy\u2019s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has ordered the deployment of 500 soldiers to Milan to strengthen security after masked demonstrators caused damage across the city over the weekend.<\/h3>\n<p>Italian media reported that the deployment would reinforce the government\u2019s \u201cSafe Streets\u201d operation. Authorities discussed the measure during a public order meeting held on Monday afternoon at Palazzo Chigi, the Italian government\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Italian President Sergio Mattarella expressed solidarity with police officers and Carabinieri who suffered injuries during clashes in Milan on Sunday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn intelligent and in-depth analysis is needed, alongside careful monitoring capable of addressing violence that appears to erupt unexpectedly and involve unknown actors,\u201d Mattarella said. \u201cThis raises questions that require comprehensive investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gct-readmore\">Read more: France Introduces Night Curfews in Paris, Lyon and Nice<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump also commented on the unrest that affected cities in France and Italy over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian media reports, Trump told journalists that \u201cprotests in Italy, as in France, are linked to immigration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that France and Italy were \u201cworse countries than they were in the past\u201d and repeated his warning that \u201cif Europe does not close its borders, it is finished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Source: AMNA)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/10\/20\/italy-sends-500-soldiers-to-milan-after-thugs-smash-up-city\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has ordered the deployment of 500 soldiers to Milan to strengthen security after masked demonstrators caused damage across the city over the weekend. Italian media reported that the deployment would reinforce the government\u2019s \u201cSafe Streets\u201d operation. Authorities discussed the measure during a public order meeting held on Monday afternoon at &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Italy Sends 500 Soldiers to Milan After Thugs Smash Up City\u00a0\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/italy-sends-500-soldiers-to-milan-after-thugs-smash-up-city\/#more-23923\" aria-label=\"Read more about Italy Sends 500 Soldiers to Milan After Thugs Smash Up City\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Italygr.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}