Speaking to the media Popov said that within two years the NATO Response Force has increased from 25,000 to 40,000 people, while battalion tactical groups of up to 1,000 people were deployed in the Baltic countries.

In video footage on the Facebook page of the senator, Fraser Anning, the teenager can be seen approaching him as Mr. Anning speaks to reporters in a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The teenager raises a mobile phone in one hand and smashes the egg on the back of Mr. Anning’s head with the other.

Mr. Anning turns and swiftly strikes the young man in the face twice. A scuffle ensues in which other men tackle the teenager to the ground while swearing at him. The video shows them holding the teenager on the ground in a chokehold until police officers arrive.

A police spokesman said officers had arrested a 17-year-old man at the scene and later released him pending further inquiries. Local news outlets later identified the teenager as Will Connolly.

Some of them - the victims reported - were armed with pistols and all had their faces covered by a balaclava. The criminals have raided inside the villa taking away a loot still to be quantified. From the first information the victims would have come out unharmed by the assault, even if in shock.

When the alarm went off at 113 on the spot the patrols of the Spoleto police station arrived . Even the Perugia mobile squad and the forensic police are investigating. An episode that reopens the fear of armed assaults in Umbria .

The Aeroclube de Bragança said that "the causes of the accident are still unknown" and recalled that the same day the aircraft made a return trip between Bragança and Leon piloted by an associate of the ACB. 

The weekly protests that have been going on since November had initially been sparked by high fuel prices and the planned eco-tax on diesel. Later, the protest mingled with general discontent about the policies of the Macron government.