I am reading reports of riots in Rome, Italy, from a similar movement that has been spreading across the world called Occupy Wall Street.  A movement, for the most part, against corporate greed.

Demonstrators took to the streets of downtown Rome, and streets close the the Colosseum where they smashed bank windows, set cars aflame with torches, and hurled botttles toward the carabinieri (Italian police).

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said the violence in Rome was a result of

"a few thousand thugs from all over Italy, and possibly from all over Europe, who infiltrated the demonstration."