Italians Burn Their Home Energy Bills to Protest Price Rises (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Dozens of protesters, led by the USB Union, burned energy bills outside CDP Bank in Rome as part of a rally against the rising cost of living.
Rally participants chanted and held placards, with some reading: 'We’re not paying the bills' and 'We’re not paying for your crisis and your wars'.
In Rome, Milan and other Italian cities, citizens take to the streets against rising energy prices and set fire to their bills: the ‘mobilization’ against price increases was launched by the union Usb, in protest against “unjustified increases in domestic utility bills,” LaPresse reported.
Increases, according to the protesters, linked to speculation that the “government must remedy to avoid a social revolt in the coming months.”
In the Capital, gas and electricity bills on fire under the headquarters of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in Milan instead flash mob the soaring energy prices in Piazza Cavour, in front of the headquarters of Arera (The Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) where a giant facsimile of a bill was burned to “manifest in a blatant way the opposition of the policies of the State also in the field of energy.”
