Italy: opponents to the Lyon-Turin rail link come into confrontation with the police

Participants in the protest focused on the square Campo del Fiori and then tried to March to the neighborhood where met the head of the Italian Government and the French President. The police stopped the March for lack of authorization and was shot with "molotov cocktails" and other objects.

Opponents to the transalpine line consider the project a waste of public money and claim that the billions of euros necessary for its completion would be better applied on assistance to families in need.

The Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, received this Wednesday the French President, François Hollande, for a franco-Italian Summit in which the project was approached.

The rail link between the cities of Lyon, in France, and Turin, in Italy, through an Alpine tunnel, was released in 2001 but is late. Completion is expected in 2025. Both Governments consider the fundamental link for freight traffic.

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