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SV Riot police with vehicles and ambulance
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SV Riot police gathering
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MV Woman demonstrator arrested
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LV Riot police move crowd on
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MV Riot police stand by with grenade guns
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LV Gas grenade explodes in front of cameraman
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GV PAN gas clouds in riot area (2 shots)
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LV Riot police charge up street PAN to reinforcements arriving
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GV & SV Riot police charge
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MV Woman arrested by plain-clothes police
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MV Police walk man to police vehicles
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SCU Arrested man
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SV Injured policeman being helped into car
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MV Another injured policeman helped up off ground
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Initials OS/019 GL/OS/038



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Background: About 40 people were injured, and over 80 arrested, after violent rioting by neo-fascists on Saturday (17 April) in Milan. The trouble started after right-wing groups defied a police ban and attempted to stage an anti-communist march through the city streets.

Police ordered the marchers to disperse, and when they refused, charged them. Several hours of rioting followed during which a fire was started at the recently-opened offices of the Italy-People's Republic of China Association.

Police had banned the demonstration early on Saturday after trouble between left and right wing factions the previous night. The rioting followed allegations in a right-wing Rome newspaper that 20,000 people in Milan belonged to extremist para-military organisations, mostly of the extreme left.