Chapter XIII
At the newsroom
What Fosco and Rudi feared was true.
Despite the speakers pleading to end the political meeting peacefully, an extremist fringe had headed off to the city centre.
Rudi was at Piazza del Duomo when the first nationalists arrived. They were mainly young students and army cadets who were getting agitated trying to understand what they could do. The police was keeping an eye on them trying to avoid aggressive actions. The group went ahead. Rudi followed it all along the way. At Piazza Cavour other protesters joined in. The most rowdy people were shouting –To the Duomo , to the Duomo- and all the people were restless not knowing exactly what was going on.
One of his colleagues got scared by what was happening and warned him that a group of socialist protesters
