Italian Police Fire Tear Gas, Protesters Clash Near Olympics

Sunday, February 08, 2026

Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday.

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Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan before Winter Olympics https://aje.news/xog5x3

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-- Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) Feb 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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... The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the Games and the presence of U.S. agents in Italy.

Police held off the violent demonstrators, who appeared to be trying to reach the Santagiulia Olympic ice hockey rink, after the skirmish. By then, the larger peaceful protest, including families with small children and students, had dispersed.

Earlier, a group of masked protesters had set off smoke bombs and firecrackers on a bridge overlooking a construction site about 800 meters (a half-mile) from the Olympic Village that's housing around 1,500 athletes. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-08 04:29 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump and the R's had public opinion in there hands and they took a giant dump on it. Swinging the pendulum back to the DNC/Left... and they are going to go to other countries to disrupt the Olympics and cause havoc. Not learning a damn thing and start to turn people off.

Not yet, but this is the crap that turns people off. Right now the world is with them, and they're going to screw it up.

#2 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-02-08 06:15 PM | Reply

I'm taking a trip to Italy in May. I'm going to try to look Canadian and say "eh" often.

#3 | Posted by path at 2026-02-09 07:37 AM | Reply

Can someone clarify exactly why ICE is in Italy to begin with? WTF...any Color of Authority they might hold on American soil vanishes the moment their plane reaches International waters, no?

#4 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-02-10 12:34 AM | Reply

Can someone clarify exactly why ICE is in Italy to begin with?

They're an expensive accessory item.

For a weak man like Vance, the display, the pageantry means everything.

I'd wager Vance wouldn't mind a Democratic victory in November. Should Trump be impeached, he'd become the president.

There's nothing a corrupt politician wants than more power.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-10 01:08 AM | Reply

"Can someone clarify exactly why ICE is in Italy to begin with?"

Maybe they're black bagging someone for Mossad.
Or maybe they'll stop over in Israel for more IDF training.

Fact is, any excuse to spend taxpayer dollars? That's reason enough for this Administration to spend taxpayer dollars.

There will never be a Republican who complains about the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse coming out of the White House.
Not while there's a Republican in it.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-10 01:09 AM | Reply

Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back.

fortune.com

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-10 02:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back.
fortune.com

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-10 02:11 AM | Reply | Flag: Oligarch Pedophile Goniff Dummkopf Trumpf is a Russian and Israeli Asset.

Dummkopf Trumpf destroyed the economic and political quality-of-life for non-oligarch Americans for many years to come:

"Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republicans are my best asset!"

"How about that? Me too!"

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-10 02:28 AM | Reply

Between millions of dollars in political donations, money laundering for the Russian oligarchs, and damaging kompromat, Dummkopf Trumpf is both a Russian and Israeli asset.

Israeli-American super-oligarch good-for-nothing Miriam Adelson wanted to donate an astonishing $250m to Trumpf if he would run for president again (overheard at the 2025 White House Hanukkah party).

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-10 02:41 AM | Reply

Ten years ago, Republicans said Donald Trump was already so fabulously wealthy, there was no risk that he could be swayed by foreign interests offering him money.

Remember that, from ten years ago?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-10 02:47 AM | Reply

"Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back."

This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-10 02:47 AM | Reply