Nearly 800 students gathered at the Eboli motorway exit in support of truck drivers protesting fuel prices and the cost of living, according to Il Mattino. Police and Carabinieri asked heavy vehicles parked along the carriageway to leave, and the trucks progressively cleared the roadway without reported tension. The students stayed on after the trucks departed, repeating the message: "Non molliamo."
What happened at the exit
Il Mattino reports that the students reached the motorway-exit area during the truck drivers' protest. Police and Carabinieri ordered the heavy vehicles to move from the carriageway. The clearance proceeded progressively, with no tension reported in the account.
After the trucks left, the students remained at the site. Their continued presence, and the phrase "Non molliamo" — "We are not giving up" — became the central image of the second phase of the protest.
The reported attendance figure of nearly 800 comes from Il Mattino; the acquired reports do not provide an official police statement or an independently published count.
Who marched
The mobilization involved students from the Antonio Gallotta scientific high school in Eboli and other schools, including Teresa Confalonieri of Campagna. Participants reached the motorway exit from the bus-terminal area.
According to Il Mattino, the students spent about four hours at the motorway exit before marching toward Piazza della Repubblica in Eboli, accompanied by Carabinieri. Teachers and professors also joined the mobilization or expressed support for it, according to InfoCilento and Il Mattino.
Some students marched despite rain and wind, InfoCilento reports.
Why the students joined
The students described several concerns during the protest: the cost of living, access to education, precarious employment, insufficient wages and uncertain future prospects.
Voce di Strada reports that Gallotta students joined the truck drivers' protest against increases in fuel and living costs. InfoCilento similarly lists the cost of living, the right to study, precarious work and insufficient wages among the issues raised by the students. The reports record these concerns as stated by the participants; they do not establish a further institutional outcome or agreement.
Local effects reported in Eboli
Local reporting linked the truckers' protest to higher diesel costs. Voce di Strada also reported difficulties supplying some agricultural and food shops in central Eboli during the protest.
That supply disruption is reported in Voce di Strada's account and is not independently quantified in the other acquired sources.
What remains unclear
The available reports describe the immediate causes and visible sequence — the gathering at the exit, the clearance of heavy vehicles, the students' decision to remain, and the later march to Piazza della Repubblica — but they do not establish the protest's final duration or any subsequent institutional agreement.
