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		</div><p>Police in Rome said officers seized sharpened iron bars, clubs and knives ahead of anti-EU march &#8211; just a few miles from where the EU summit was being held.</p>
<p>Hours before the marches started on Saturday, police checked the occupants of cars, trucks and buses heading to Rome.</p>
<p>Police said one van inspected at a highway toll had knives and gas masks. In Rome, not far from one of the routes of the marches, traffic police found a bag filled with sharpened iron bars.</p>
<p>By early evening the marches were finished and several thousand protesters were dispersing.<br />
One protest banner read: &#8220;Politicians, bankers and eurocrats, our patience is over.&#8221;</p>
<p>Monuments and museums closed down as a precaution, and streets in the centre of Rome streets were largely deserted except for the marchers.</p>
<p>Italian state TV RaiNew24 reported that police stopped dozens of protesters from reaching twin anti-EU marches.</p>
<p>One protest leader, Tommaso Cacciari, complained that 150 protesters, arriving on buses from north-east Italy, were prevented from joining the marchers.</p>
<p>One anti-EU march moved past the iconic Mouth of Truth monument while another march route flanked the Tiber River. The protests grouped opponents to the EU, NATO and the high-speed rail project in northern Italy.</p>
<p>The Colosseum was closed and museums and many shops closed up, fearing clashes.<br />
Earlier, pro-EU marches went off peacefully in Rome.</p>
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