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Police clashed with rioters in Milan on Saturday as the cost-of-living protest emptied Piazza del Duomo and a luxury shopping arcade; the headlines kept counting windows.

On air: Hank Ledger on Weekend Edition
Published 7:41 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

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First reported by Japan Today: “Rioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 7:41 AM ET on Weekend Edition, by Hank Ledger.
Topics: Jonathan Milan.
BBN covered this story before: Protests spread to Lisbon and Milan over housing and living costs (October 18).

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Japan TodayRioters loot stores, set fires in central Milan during cost-of-living protest

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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA cost-of-living protest in Milan turned violent on Saturday with looting and fires in the city center. Our correspondent Lola Cruz has more.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI'm standing at the edge of Piazza del Duomo, and the square that was emptied on Saturday is, I assume, still mostly empty behind me, apart from the cleanup crews.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe luxury shopping arcade was emptied too when the clashes reached it.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentTwenty years of front lines, and this is the first one where the barricade was marble and the sandbags were handbags.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd what were they protesting?
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe cost of living.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentEvery headline is about the broken windows. The windows, I'm told, were insured. The coffee here is not.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo we're covering the glass and not the price. I'm taking a lap.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, is there anything in the sky this morning that costs less than a coffee in Milan?

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