Italy's government is fast-tracking a security decree after violent clashes in Turin left more than 100 officers injured and a policeman beaten with a hammer by masked protesters, an attack Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called "attempted murder".
The officer, 29-year-old Alessandro Calista, of the Padua Mobile Police Unit, was surrounded by masked demonstrators and struck repeatedly — including with a hammer — before another officer intervened with a riot shield to extract him from the crowd.
