Posted on 06/17/2022 11:55:16 AM PDT by Morgana
This is the moment Extinction Rebellion activists were forcibly removed by furious Italian motorists after they blocked a busy motorway in Rome on Thursday.
Demonstrating over environmental issues, the protesters sat in a row across Rome's Raccordo - the city's main ring-road and one of its busiest - holding banners.
A video shot from the side of the two-lane road showed the demonstrators using road-block protest tactics also used in Britain, causing a huge traffic jam to snake back as far as the eye could see, with no police officers or vehicles in sight.
In response, irate Italian motorists at the front of the queue jumped out of their vehicles to take action - dragging the protesters across the tarmac and dumping them on to the side of the road.
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One man ripped an orange banner from the hands of the Extinction Rebellion activists and threw it over the side of the motorway barrier. A woman, dressed in a summer dress while still carrying her handbag, tore a second sign from their grasp.
After removing the banners, a second man joined the first in forcibly dragging the protesters by their arms across the tarmac to the side of the road, making enough of a gap for several vehicles to get through and past the demonstration.
However, as the first man was dragging the remaining protesters off the road, the activists he had first removed saw an opportunity and ran back into the middle of the road, and in front of the on-coming traffic - only to sit down again with their banner.
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Hmmmm. No Rope N’ tow?
Next time the Extinction Rebellion activists should be tied to the railing or (better still) rendered unconscious so that they won’t block the road again.
Very pleasing (but the protesters as so aggravating) to watch.
I’d start to keep tie wraps in my car if I lived there.
Molto bene
I see about 4 moonbats sitting in the road and a lot more cars.
Lol.
Mama mia!
“furious Italian motorists”
As a kid we were stationed in Northern Italy for 2 years in the 60s......I can attest that Italian motorists are ALWAYS furious.
SMH
I saw driving there I’ve never seen in my while life since. LoL!
On a side note, having said all that, I also had food there that has never been equalled either.
I rented that tiny Fiat when I was touristing in Poland. Isn’t much of a car.
Throw the protesters over the Vatican wall 🤪
… dragging the protesters across the tarmac …Somehow I doubt that the road was paved with tarmac and not with asphalt instead.
A rope drag for about about 5 km (at the speed limit of course) would get them out of the way for a really good time.
You guys need some Lions
Just shoot them and clear the road. Nothing of value is lost
It should be legal to drive through them.
I met General Dozier who was held for 42 days by the Red Brigades in Italy. The Italian police raided the place he was held and rescued him. They threw him in a car and drove him 50 miles to their HQ.
He said that ride with adrenaline pumped Italian police was the most terrifying part of the whole ordeal.
Italian drivers don’t like getting screwed with.
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