Italy's Giorgia Meloni orders 500 troops into Milan and approves tough new riot laws after a weekend of looting
Giorgia Meloni, who says nearly 200 police officers were injured and 330 people detained during the weekend violence that triggered Italy's new riot measures.
Meloni says nearly 200 police officers were injured and 330 people detained, half of them of 'foreign origin'. Her cabinet has created a new crime of 'violent participation in a demonstration'. Parents will be fined for damage their children cause at protests. Soldiers will not get policing powers after opposition from President Sergio Mattarella.
'Destroying and stealing is not protest, it is crime,' Meloni said on X.
France will also deploy military forces before fresh protests planned for Saturday.
