by In Trieste
Stefano Puzzer, the leader of the high-profile No Green Pass protests which took over our city last month, has been banned from Rome.
The order came from Rome’s Questura, which gave Puzzer a one-year ban from the capital where he staged a one-man protest on Tuesday, reports news agency ANSA.
Puzzer, who gained international attention for organizing a protest of our city’s port workers against Italy’s Green Pass mandate, had set up a temporary stall in Rome’s central Piazza del Popolo.
He placed five chairs in front of him with the names of Italian prime minister Mario Draghi, Pope Francis, the US, China and the European Union, saying he was ready for talks.
On Tuesday morning Puzzer pledged that he wouldn’t budge “until the bitter end”, saying he would stay in Piazza del Popolo until he “got an answer.”
By the afternoon Puzzer received an answer in the form of a year-long ban from Rome – for staging an “unauthorized protest” – and an order to return to Trieste by 9 pm on Wednesday.
Puzzer lead the infamous port protests which caused Trieste to have the highest weekly covid-19 incidence in Italy, with 283 cases per 100,000 inhabitants according to figures released on Monday, while every other large Italian city has under 100 cases per 100,000.
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