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Milan street clashes and looting
18 Oct 2026 – 20 Oct 2026 · 3 chapters · 24 updates
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Chapter 1Milan street clashes and looting
- 18 Oct
Youths loot a supermarket and smash shopfronts along via Torino as central Milan unrest continues for a second day, Italian media report.
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Milan police say 160 people were taken to headquarters today after the unrest, 80% of them minors.
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Security forces say the 160 people detained after the unrest have no political links, and some are 12 years old, according to La Vanguardia.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has convened a summit on public order after renewed unrest in Milan, ANSA reports.
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Milan police official Angelo De Simone says he was hit in the head by a stone in Piazza Duomo and needed four stitches.
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More than 5,000 people marched in central Milan at a rally called by the 'Italia in Piazza' alliance demanding lower prices and higher wages, according to Rai News.
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Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has met top police officials on the Milan unrest, ANSA reports.
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Milan police used tear gas and water cannon against looters around Piazza del Duomo, ANSA reports.
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Chapter 2Milan security response after riots
- 20 Oct
Italy plans to deploy 500 soldiers to Milan ahead of planned weekend demonstrations, following weekend unrest.
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Defence Minister Guido Crosetto says the weekend riots in Milan and other Italian cities are the product of a "hybrid war" fought through social media.
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Italy's government has decided to deploy 500 more soldiers in Milan after an emergency meeting chaired by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Deutsche Welle reports.
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Italy's government will adopt a decree Tuesday sending 500 soldiers to Milan. Over 270 people were temporarily arrested and five youths are in pretrial detention, 20min.ch reports.
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Meloni's government will station 500 extra soldiers in Milan for three months, until January 2027, the Rheinische Post reports.
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Milan's preliminary investigations judge keeps four of the first five adults arrested in the riots in jail and places one under house arrest, ANSA reports.
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Italy's cabinet approves a security decree creating a crime of violent participation in demonstrations, punishable by up to five years in prison, Meloni says.
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Meloni says the decree also allows preventive detention of minors and makes parents liable for damage their children cause.
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The new crime of violent participation in demonstrations applies to people who join a group of five or more and throw stones, petards or sticks, Meloni says.
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A Milan juvenile court has placed 11 minors arrested in last Saturday's riots in community care or under house arrest, ANSA reports.
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Italy's new decree raises preventive detention from 12 to 24 hours and extends it to minors, RAI News reports.
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Meloni says police identified an 11-year-old among the minors involved in the Milan riots.
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Chapter 3Milan security decree approved
- 20 Oct
Italy's cabinet approves deploying 500 soldiers to Milan and tightens rules on preventive detention for minors involved in violent protests.
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Italy's new decree sets fines of up to €20,000 for joining a protest group of five or more that endangers public safety, the Independent reports.
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Italy's decree makes it easier to prosecute minors over 14, the Associated Press reports.
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Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi says Milan police made about 400 detentions and around 50 arrests during the riots, according to AGI.
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