Sara Guglielmetti The images and videos from last weekend in Milan's Piazza Duomo are heartbreaking , with dozens of individuals, most of them minors, smashing shop windows, attacking stores, and essentially devastating the city center. Their parents' fury spilled out outside the police station.
Clashes in Milan, anger from the parents of the arrested boys: "I would have smashed his head in."
A weekend of guerrilla warfare in Milan , with Piazza Duomo ablaze, mostly by minors, who smashed shop windows and looted several stores. Unspeakable scenes that truly leave a bitter taste in the mouth. The parents of the arrested minors also reacted with anger, mixed with dismay and disbelief, yet condemning their children's actions.
Among the harshest reactions was that of a parent who went so far as to say: " I would have smashed his head in ." Then there is the bitterness of those who came to Italy decades ago, who worked hard and now find themselves facing this situation: "Coming here after 30 years in Italy, breaking my back every day at work... I'm disappointed.
If he made a mistake, he will pay.”
Clashes in Milan, parents' anger: "My son? A bitch."
As we've seen, anger has exploded among the parents of the children arrested and taken to the police station following the clashes in Milan's Piazza Duomo last weekend: " My son? He was a bitch. If he made a mistake, he'll pay. " This is the comment of one father. Many parents are also in disbelief, as several discovered from the videos that their children were in Piazza Duomo: "They were supposed to go to school today. They told me they were going to the Duomo ," said one father. Another reported contacting his son and receiving a seemingly calm response: "I called him, and he told me he was with friends downtown ."