Italy: 'Sardines' pack Rome for anti-Salvini rally

W/S 'Sardine' protesters, Rome
C/U Cardboard sardines
W/S 'Sardines' protesters
C/U Cardboard sardine
M/S Woman with cardboard sardine
M/S Banner reading (Italian) "Sardines on the move"
C/U Cardoboard sardine
W/S 'Sardines' protesters applauding at speech
SOT, Romano Quattropanetti, Citizen (Italian): "We have a desire for democracy, a desire for hospitality, a wish to participate civilly in the life of Italy against fascism."
M/S Woman with banner
C/U Man with cardboard sardine on forehead
SOT, Antonio Palombi, Citizen (Italian): "Stop racism. Stop being one against another. Stop raising your voice. We must get back to governing this country. Let's do it if we are capable of it."
M/S Cardboard sardine *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Andrea Paglia, Citizen (Italian): "This movement must remain ideological. To be all in the same boat and not in different boats. That's why we are here."
M/S Cardboard sardines *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Dafne Borgia, Citizen (Italian): "Now we want to participate, to share, understand what is happening and not simply listen to the hate message that characters like Salvini are promoting."
C/U Banner reading (Italian) "You don't need to hate him, you just don't vote for him" *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Massimiliano Perna, Member of movement 'Sardines' Sicily (Italian): "We don't like that kind of policy, not just Salvini's. It is the politics of sovereignty, the politics of (Giorgia) Meloni. The politics of hate speech in which many local and national political figures have fallen into."
M/S 'Sardines' protesters
C/U Man applauding
C/U Cardboard sardine
M/S Woman applauding
W/S Banner reading (Italian) "Rome doesn't take the bait"
SOT, Massimiliano Perna,Member of movement 'Sardines' Sicily (Italian): "The Italy-Lybia memorandum is a shame of content and words. It's a shame because it makes migrants guilty for escaping and seeking help. Libya is a theater of a genocide. Any form, even if it is moderate, will make us complicit and will remain in the history of the world and of humanity. We will see it in the coming years. We don't want to be complicit with anyone."
W/S Rally in Santi Appostoli Square
M/S Protesters applauding
SOT, Italian partisan (Italian): "They have met a rubber wall that has rejected them. Salvini is a loser."
W/S Protesters singing Italian partisan song 'Bella Ciao' *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Massimiliano Perna, Member of movement 'Sardines' Sicily (Italian): "I am very ashamed these days of being Italian because of our foreign affairs minister. Yesterday he took selfies in a shameful way while each hour passing by, Patrick (Zaki, student of Bologna University jailed in Egypt) remained in the hands of his torturers. This is shameful."
W/S 'Sardines' protesters in Santi Apostoli Square, Rome
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Thousands of so-called 'Sardine' protesters flooded Rome on Sunday, to oppose Italy's anti-immigration security laws promoted by former interior minister Matteo Salvini.
The 'Sardines' rallied in Santi Apostoli Square, with their colourful cardboard sardines and banners reading 'Rome doesn't take the bait."
Activists denounced the Italy-Libya Memorandum to stop illegal immigration as 'shameful'.
"It's a shame because it makes migrants guilty for escaping and seeking help," said Massimiliano Perna, a representative for the 'Sardines' in Sicily.
Perna also criticised Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio for allegedly wasting time in taking selfies rather than engaging with the Egyptian authorities to free Patrick Zaky, a student from the Univeristy of Bologna who was jailed in Cairo.
The rally took place on the same day that League leader Matteo Salvini held an event with his supporters in the Eur neighbourhood.
The 'Sardines' protest was the second in Rome after the demonstration held in December. The movement got its name from an idea of packing as many people in the city squares as possible, resembling canned sardines.