Hundreds of protesters clash with police in Naples (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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Published time: May 11, 2012 18:24
Edited time: May 11, 2012 22:38

Naples: Demonstrators (L) face riot policemen as they try to enter the offices of Equitalia, Italy's tax collection agency during a protest against the government's austerity measures and the wave of suicide committed by businessmen because of the crisis, on May 11, 2012 in Naples. (AFP Photo / Carlo Hermann)

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Two policemen have been injured as hundreds of protesters hurled red paint and eggs at officers guarding Equitalia, Italy's tax collection office, in Naples following the suicide of yet another debt-ridden Italian citizen.

Demonstrators lobbed rocks and bottles at policemen clad in riot gear as the building was quickly closed to the public.

The protesters claimed to have attacked the tax office after its director refused to close it to mourn the latest suicide in Naples, allegedly sparked by the delivery of a bill from the tax recovery office, ANSA news agency reports.

Earlier in the day, a mail bomb was sent to Equitalia's head Rome office, police said.

A bomb squad was called in, and upon examining the package they discovered it was indeed filled with explosives, but contained no fuse. The agency has been widely criticized for increasing the burden of ordinary Italians suffering in harsh economic times. Another man in the southern town of Pompeii left behind a suicide note chastising the tax collection agency before later shooting himself.

However, an Equitalia spokesman said it was “unacceptable” to blame the agency for the economic crisis gripping the country, and that linking the agency to the recent rash of suicides was “superficial.”

(AFP Photo / Carlo Hermann)

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Jack (unregistered) 12.05.2012 10:29

Where is Pope???

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Lucifer (unregistered) 12.05.2012 09:50

billybones (unregistered) wrote in #16
The more turmoil, the further european politics moves left or right. The time of the strongman of europe approaches. And Peter The Roman, being europes guiding spirit, will plunge the world into WW3. Yes yes...the more war and genocide you can have the fewer questions you have to ask about your own imperialism,overpopu lation and greed ....and Almighty God will be happy as well....... because all his crazy religions are just about fascism and procreating without thinking what will happen to all these extra people.We all know what this is really about....just as fast as honest people build decent social democratic societies my friends the Zionists and Catholics and Islamists are busy in the third world creating billions more "asylum seekers" and "unemployed workers" to wreck first world social democracies so they COLLAPSE INTO WAR and GENOCIDE and TOTALITARIANISM !!!I have defeated God.....because God`s "kindness" is your undoing. While you "kind" idiots strive to provide a welfare state for the entire growing population of the third world (within your own borders) I can wreak HAVOC ...EVERYWHERE!!!! LOL LOL LOL

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Giant Robo (unregistered) 12.05.2012 09:42

QUOTE: AUSTERITY IS NECCESARY (unregistered) wrote in #14
When you spaend more than your income you have no other choice. Its painfull but necesary. If you disagree... ----- -------------------- ------------------en d quote------------It' s all lies. A system applied to control people for generations through inescapable debt. We can do what the ancient greeks or romans did. Simply toss out the entire government/finance system when it doesn't work anymore.
That's what they actually used to do! They'd never keep a screwed up system like ours when it had obviously failed nearly absolutely everybody. Its time to draw up a new system. Continuing with more of the same old & expecting anything new is definition of insanity.
You can 'spend' more than 'income', not everything has to run at a profit. Things can be just dropped off balance sheets & not everything (such as government) has to run at a profit.
There's a ton of alternative finance models not based on zero-sum games & predatory financing imbalances. The 'debts' are all virtual nothing -- imaginary anyways -- signifying nothing. Essentially mind control. Logically we could just dump the imbalance, clean slate, start over.
That makes a very few 'big' people lose big time, but who cares? They were playing a stupid game. We don't want to play anymore. New game. Start over.

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