米兰，10月17日 - 意大利媒体报道，周六，意大利警方在被抗议者投掷石块和其他物品袭击后，在米兰哥特式大教堂前的广场上向抗议者发射催泪瓦斯。
MILAN, Oct 17 - Italian police fired tear gas on Saturday after coming under attack from protesters throwing stones and other objects in clashes in the square in front of Milan's Gothic cathedral, Italian media reported.
身着防暴装备的警方还试图驱散聚集在维托里奥·埃马努埃莱二世画廊（该豪华购物 arcade 位于大教堂广场一侧）的戴兜帽抗议者，因为一些团体脱离了抗议高生活成本的队伍。
Police in riot gear also tried to clear hooded protesters from the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the luxury shopping arcade which is on one side of the cathedral square, as groups broke away from a protest over the high cost of living.
商店放下了卷帘门，游客逃离了市中心区域。据意大利媒体报道，在冲突期间，中央杜奥莫（大教堂）地铁站被关闭，多人被报告受伤，并有多人被逮捕。
Shops pulled down their shutters and tourists fled the central area. The central Duomo (Cathedral) metro station was closed during the clashes in which several people were reported injured, and a number of arrests made, according to the Italian media reports.
意大利北部城市博洛尼亚的警方使用水炮试图驱散人群，并在另一场抗议活动转为暴力后逮捕了七人，这一消息由 ANSA 新闻社报道。
Police in the northern Italian city of Bologna used water cannon to try to disperse crowds and made seven arrests after another protest turned violent, the ANSA news agency reported.
这些冲突呼应了邻国法国的暴力事件，周六，数以万计因生活成本上升和公共服务下降而愤怒的法国民众走上街头，参加了该国多年来最激烈的抗议活动之一。
The clashes had echoes of the violence in neighbouring France where tens of thousands of people angered by rising costs and declining public services took to the streets on Saturday in some of the country's most violent protests in years.