Hundreds of protesters waving Palestinian flags storm Rome's Colosseum as unrest over Gaza and living costs sweeps Italy
Masked rioters force their way through entrance barriers at Rome's Colosseum, which protesters waving Palestinian flags stormed as unrest grew across the city.
Around 500 demonstrators slipped past police on Saturday and chanted, in French, 'Everyone hates the police' inside the 2,000-year-old amphitheatre before security guards escorted them out. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at crowds in Rome and Turin. Soldiers were deployed in Milan, where Versace and other luxury stores boarded up their windows. Giorgia Meloni's government says new preventative detention powers stopped worse disorder.
Around 10,000 marched in Milan, where police arrested an accused organiser of earlier riots.
Protesters raged over Gaza, housing, corruption, education and the soaring cost of living.
In France, 1,314 people were arrested over the weekend and 53 officers injured.
