Italian police clashed with protesters on Saturday (October 17) in the square in front of Milan Cathedral, Italian media reported.

Police in riot gear also tried to clear hooded protesters from the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the luxury shopping arcade which is on one side of the cathedral square, amid the protest over the high cost of living.

Shops pulled down their shutters and tourists fled the central area. The central Duomo (Cathedral) metro station was closed during the clashes in which several people were reported injured, and a number of arrests made, according to media reports.

The clashes had echoes of the violence in neighbouring France where tens of thousands of people angered by rising costs and declining public services took to the streets on Saturday in some of the country's most violent protests in years.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

MILAN, ITALY (OCTOBER 17, 2026) (AGTW - No use Italy)

1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS THROWING PROJECTILES

2. POLICE MOVING BACKWARDS

3. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS

4. VARIOUS OF POLICE IN SQUARE

5. PROTESTERS IN SQUARE

6. POLICE WALKING IN LINE TOWARDS PROTESTERS

7. LINE OF POLICE STANDING

8. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS

9. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS / PROTESTERS RUNNING

10. FLARE LANDING BY POLICE / POLICE RUNNING AND KNOCKING PERSON OVER

11. POLICE TACKLING PERSON TO GROUND

12. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS

13. PERSON ON GROUND SURROUNDED BY POLICE

14. PROTESTERS

15. POLICE IN LINE / PROTESTERS RUNNING AS POLICE MOVE TOWARDS THEM

16. PROTESTERS, SOME WITH HANDS IN AIR

17. SMOKE AND AUDIBLE BANG IN STREET

18. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS / AUDIBLE BANG

19. PROTESTERS WITH HANDS UP / POLICE

20. PROTESTERS ON BUS STOP

21. POLICE IN FRONT OF CATHEDRAL