Overview
- The Rome march began at 2 p.m. from Piazza della Repubblica toward Piazza San Giovanni under a deployment of more than 1,000 police using new crowd-control rules.
- Organizers expected about 15,000 people from across Italy, with hundreds of buses and more than 700 unions, parties, and civic groups taking part.
- The platform rejects authoritarian rule, war, rearmament, genocide, and what organizers call repression, with sharp criticism of the Meloni government’s direction.
- Police checked MEP Ilaria Salis in her hotel room in the morning, which she called intimidation, while the questura said it acted on a report from another European country, and she later joined the march.
- The Rome action is part of the US-born No Kings movement that staged huge protest days in 2025 and broadened today to coordinated events in Europe, with symbolic displays in Rome including a flower-tipped wooden missile and a ‘March of the Invisible’ for migrants lost at sea.