The police of Verona and Milan are currently analysing hundreds of videos from social networks and images from surveillance cameras. But with the help of witness statements, the authorities have already been able to reconstruct what happened last Thursday between Peschiera del Garda, Castelnuovo and Desenzano: a mob moved through the narrow streets of the villages, destroying shop windows, attacking tourists and women tourists, harassing women and insulting passers-by.
Around 1500 people from North Africa, as well as some black people, gathered around the lakeshore shouting “This is Africa” and “We have come to take back Peschiera.” They waved flags of different African countries. Most of them were between 16 and 20 years old, witnesses also reported very young people between twelve and 14 years old. Many of the participants arrived by train from Milan, Brescia and Bergamo. 20min.ch