Tens of thousands of people participated in an anti-racist demonstration yesterday in Milan. The protest slogan „People – First the People“ was the first such large-scale demonstration against the government’s policy of immigration in Rome and against the closed ports strategy promoted by Italy’s right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini.
„Another world is possible,“ chanted the protesters. Also present were members of NGOs active in refugee rescue in the Mediterranean, such as Sea-Watch from Germany and the Spanish Proactiva Open Arms. Activists of the NGO rolled out banners with the slogan „In the Mediterranean drowns Europe“.
The demonstration was led by Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala and other center-left politicians who sharply criticized the immigration policies of the populist government in Rome
