After shovelling manure onto the red carpet amid photos of government ministers and what they called “war criminal” Benjamin Netanyahu, the protesters staged a rally under the slogan “popular and anti-military”.
Life Senator and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre, deputising for President Sergio Mattarella who is at the reopening of Notre-Dame in Paris, was set to issue a plea for world peace from the royal box.
Conductor Riccardo Chailly was set to lead the orchestra in Verdi’s ‘religious’ piece La Forza del Destino, whose message was reframed against all wars and the patriarchy.
Meanwhile, high jump star Gianmarco Tamberi and actor Pierfrancesco Favino were among the celebrities rumoured to be sporting Armani Saturday night.
The high-society event, which takes place on the saint’s day of Milan’s patron saint, Saint Ambrose, is usually met with protests against the rich.
It is the highlight of the Milanese social season and a showcase for Italy’s great, good and glitterati.
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