Escalating protests in Italy on a U.S. communications station license

Tensions escalate in city "Nishimy" of Kaltannisya province the center of the island of Sicily in the south of Italy, after the opposition activists tried to continue to build space stations VHF American southern Italy to catch up with eight colleagues who were able to bypass the control points on Thursday night.

And climb the wall of the U.S. military base and rise to 4 of 46 satellite antennas for communication, which fueled noisy protests against the U.S. project, the region took groups of the Italian military police.

It is expected that the region is witnessing today, Friday, mobility crowds of demonstrators at the U.S. base, where the station location in space communications, and demonstrators had blocked the road to the base, and prevented the police car the Italian traffic, followed by forcing the fire truck back from where it came from, which raised tension between the demonstrators and the Italian security forces.

The protests came after the provincial government's decision to cancel the decision to withdraw the licenses to continue to build your communication system the U.S. military base.

The station is one of four ground stations built completed in March of this year, which is concerned with covering communications between U.S. Navy ships and ground forces in various parts of the world, and is considered one of the largest U.S. defense installations in Europe.