Italians protest US base expansion, G8
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04-Jul-2009

Several thousand Italians, protesting against a planned expansion of an airport and a US military base in Vicenza, have clashed with police forces.

A 500-million-dollar expansion plan would make the US military base one of the biggest in Europe.

Riot police fired teargas at protesters who were trying to cross a bridge leading to the US military base at the Dal Molin airport in the northern city of Vicenza.

The demonstrators, wearing motorcycle helmets and carrying plexiglass shields, lit firecrackers, threw bottles and rocks towards the riot police but were pushed back. Six policemen were injured.

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