Milan police clashed on Sunday (October 18) with protesters throwing stones and looting shops during demonstrations against poor services and the rising cost of living, a day after similar unrest in several Italian cities.

Video showed police in riot gear firing tear gas after several hundred hooded protesters broke shop windows and set bins on fire in the area near central Piazza Duomo.

More than 60 protesters were taken to the police station for further checks, sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

A total of 28 protesters were arrested after similar clashes erupted on Saturday (October 17) in northern cities including Milan, Bologna, Brescia, Bergamo and Turin, according to a police report on Sunday.

The clashes had echoes of the violence in neighbouring France, where hundreds 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 18, 2026) (AGTW – No use Italy)

1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS KICKING AND THROWING OBJECTS AT SHOP FRONTS

2. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SMASHING SHOP WINDOWS

3. SMASHED WINDOW

4. PROTESTERS RUNNING INTO SHOP

5. PROTESTERS LOOTING FROM SHOP AND RUNNING OUT

6. PROTESTERS RUNNING DOWN STREET AND PICKING UP CHAIRS

7. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RUNNING FROM TEAR GAS CANISTERS

8. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING AND RUNNING DOWN STREET

9. MAN JUMPING FROM TOP OF VEHICLE, PROTESTERS WALKING DOWN STREET

10. POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS

11. PROTESTERS RUNNING FROM TEAR GAS

12. POLICE RESTRAINING PROTESTER AND DRAGGING ALONG PAVEMENT

13. POLICE RESTRAINING PROTESTER / PROTESTER FALLING ON GROUND

14. POLICE RESTRAINING PROTESTER ON GROUND

15. (NIGHT SHOT) GROUP OF POLICE STANDING, TEAR GAS BEING FIRED

16. (NIGHT SHOT) PROTESTERS, TEAR GAS IN AIR