He was hit twice, once in the forehead and once on the left cheek.

He had blood pouring from his mouth.

On the pretext of clamping down on protesters the Italian and European police have made a frontal assault on the democratic right to protest and the right to free speech. The mobilisation of state forces is aimed at preventing the free movement of those deemed by the authorities to be undesirable or dangerous, setting yet another precedent in the erosion of fundamental democratic rights.