{"id":12617,"date":"2011-06-27T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2011-06-27T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:07:44","slug":"italian-environmentalists-protest-high-speed-rail-tunnel-12617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/italian-environmentalists-protest-high-speed-rail-tunnel-12617\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian environmentalists clash with police against high speed rail tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12618\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/italy_clash_protest_tunnel_train_nationalturk_1234.jpg\" alt=\"Lyon Turin train tunnel threatens the beauty of italian Alps  \" width=\"468\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/italy_clash_protest_tunnel_train_nationalturk_1234.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/italy_clash_protest_tunnel_train_nationalturk_1234-280x180.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0130talian protesters prior to the clashes with police<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Environmentalists and activist gave Italian police a hard time on Monday at protests against a planned high-speed rail line running through a scenic valley in the Italian Alps.<\/h1>\n<p>The clashes between occurred local residents, organised by italian activists and italian police as construction workers prepared to begin work on the tunnel in the Susa Valley ( Val di Susa ) near Turin, which will connect rail lines between\u00a0Lyon in\u00a0France \u00a0and\u00a0Turin in\u00a0Italy, which is expected decrease the travel time by nearly half.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2000 demonstrators took part in a peaceful, candlelight procession prayer vigil through the night against the project in the valley on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A group of opponents began attacking the police in a pretty violent way, and the police responded by charging them,&#8217; stated Mario Virano, the head government official in charge of construction of the Lyon-Turin speed rail line.<\/p>\n<h2>Lyon Turin train tunnel threatens the beauty of italian Alps<\/h2>\n<p>The Italian government is determined to continue with the project, which is backed by EU money, and has ordered work to continue with or without environmental objections.<\/p>\n<p>The environmentalists and activist try to protect the area of outstanding natural beauty in the northern part of Italy, the italian Alps, although safeguards have been built into the multi-billion euro project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists and activist gave Italian police a hard time on Monday at protests against a planned high-speed rail line running through a scenic valley in the Italian Alps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,14],"tags":[16161,16160,16164,16159,16163,16162,16165,16166],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-world","tag-italian-alps-tunnel","tag-italy-clash","tag-italy-police-clash","tag-italy-protests","tag-italy-tunnel-clash","tag-lyon-turin-train-tunnel","tag-susa-valley-italy","tag-susa-valley-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}