Last day of the summit. The biggest demonstration took place in the town of L'Aquila. The town where earthquake struck in the early hours on 6 April 2009 killing many.
Around 2000 protesters including socialists, anarchists, trade unionists and others gathered on the road ready to march uphill 8km in soaring heat to the final destination. L'Aquila.
Reaching the destination after a couple of hours I was stunned noticing it was a ghost town. No one apart from the press, police and protesters was in the town. Houses were abandoned, cars left on the streets. People became homeless and are now living in the tent cities all around L'Aquila.
Anyway, after the crowd reached the police lines, tension was high and so were the expectations but nothing happened. Italians bickered amongst themselves with some of them wanting to fight the police but most of them didn't.
And of course, it turned into a media circus after everyone realized no riot will happen.
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