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After Violent May Day Protests, Milan's Expo 2015 Opens

"Four little hooligans with silver spoons in their mouths will not succeed in ruining the Expo," says Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Demonstrators paint a wall covered in graffiti in Milan, Italy, on Sunday, May 3, 2015, during a march to protest violence that left much of downtown trashed on May Day. Hundreds of the marchers removed graffiti and helped repair other damage wreaked by protesters who rampaged through downtown two days earlier against Expo 2015.Mourad Balti Touati/ANSA via AP

After a May Day protest in Milan that saw vandals smashing windows and setting cars on fire, the city's streets are again clean and its mega event, Expo 2015, is underway.

On Sunday, mayor Giuliano Pisapia led a march down the same streets where protestors clashed with police two days prior. Thousands of Milanese took to the streets this time to condemn Friday's violence—and hundreds of them, according to the AP, helped clean up the damage.