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No-TAV protestors told to leave camp following Susa Valley violence

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(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 30 - Protesters against the TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link were ordered to leave a camp at Venaus, in Piedmont's Susa Valley, on Thursday after last weekend's violent protests at worksites for the project in which 126 police officers were injured and at least one million euros in damage was caused. Thousands of protestors, many of whom came from outside Italy, set off from the Venaus camp to march to the construction sites on Saturday during the no-TAV movement's Alta ...