VATICAN CITY
CathNews
Demonstrators attempting to set up a protest camp in St Peter’s Square in Rome have been forcibly removed by riot police backed by the Vatican, reports the Guardian.
Aiming to set up a protest camp similar to the Occupy encampment outside St Paul’s in London, up to 50 protesters arrived in the colonnaded piazza in front of St Peter’s Basilica carrying placards calling on the Catholic church to pay more taxes – likely in reference to tax breaks handed to the Vatican by the Italian government.
One of the group of protesters, who were mainly French and Spanish, arrived in a pope’s outfit bearing the slogan “indignant heart”, a reference to the Spanish Indignados protest movement.
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