Police crackdown on looting in 1 of Italy's poorest regions

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A lockdown has shut almost everything across the country since March 12, depriving millions of income. FMTNews Covid19

PALERMO: Police with batons and guns have moved in to protect supermarkets on the Italian island of Sicily after reports of looting by locals who could no longer afford food.

A lockdown designed to curb contagion has shut almost everything across the country since March 12, depriving millions of steady incomes. The paper wrote of a ticking “social time bomb” in the region, which is home to around five million people, and which has officially recorded 57 deaths from Covid-19.

They stood silently, hands behind their backs or tucked into the straps of their bulletproof vests, their faces partially hidden by green masks.

 

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