About 100 people had occupied the square since Saturday, when most of about 800 squatters were evicted from an adjacent office building they had occupied for about five years.
Hung on the building was a sheet with writing reading: “We are refugees, not terrorists,” in Italian.
A small fire burned on the pavement and a sheet hanging from a first-floor window was set alight by squatters inside.
Most of the squatters were Eritreans who had been granted asylum. Police said they had refused to accept lodging offered by the city.
In a statement, the police said the refugees had gas canisters, some of which they had opened, and officers had been hit by rocks, bottles and pepper spray. Two people were arrested.
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