Yes, Italy had also an important presence in 1968. At March 1st of that unique year a student protest at that city, the seat of a faculty of architeture, resulted in a shock with the police that the day before expelled students from the school as a reponse to a prior protest.
The shock received the name of "Battle of Valle Giulia" with some 4,000 students attacked the policemen with stones and other objects. The police counterattacked and the result was more than 600 people wounded, most of them studentes. During the fight eight police vehicles were burned.
The students invaded the hall of the faculty and told the policemen there to leave. And they just did it. For the surprise of the leaders of the manifestation, the students had no resistance inside the faculty, besides all the shocks out of there.
As a result, the invasion was considered a victory by the studentes. But the public opinion was shocked with the violence. And the "victory" was considered a "lost game" in June whenr Pier Paolo Pasolini, the famous filmmaker, wrote for the students: "When yesterday at Valle Giulia you and the policemen were throwing blows, I sympathized with the policemen! Because policemen are sons of the poor, they come from urban or rural outskirts." Pasolini considered that the students belonged to the bourgeoisie.
Was Pasolini wrong? It is hard to say. Like a lot of things that happened in 1968 there is not a simple answer for this question.
SCENES OF THE BATTLE OF VALLE GIULIA
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