The authors of the Tobacco Passage, filmed and broadcast on social networks, are members of a far -right group linked to Fratelli d’Italia, the government’s chef’s party, Giorgia meloni.
by Olivier Bonnel (Rome, Correspondence)
Violent kicks and fist on two high school students on land filmed by smartphones. It didn’t take more for the images to quickly become viral on social networks. Saturday, February 18, six young people attacked students at the exit of the Michelangiolo de Florence high school. An investigation was opened against them for aggravated violence. The case could have been confined to the news a few months ago. But the attackers, aged 16 to 21, were identified as militants of Azione Stududéca, a far -right group linked to the Fratelli party of Italia, the political formation of the chairman of the council, Giorgia Meloni. The attack led to a week of political tensions in the peninsula.
Four days after the Tabaco, Annalisa Savino, principal of the Léonard de Vinci high school, another Florentine establishment, wrote a letter to its students to return to the facts and invite them to an introspection. “Fascism in Italy was not born with large rallies of thousands of people, she wrote there. He was born on the edge of an ordinary sidewalk, the victim of a political aggression being left to her- Even by indifferent passers-by. “M Savino encourages high school students to” have faith in the future “,” always condemning violence and arrogance “.
This text has earned him the reprobation of the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara (League, extreme right), who, questioned on television, denounced “a completely inappropriate letter”. According to the minister, the principal has exceeded his duties. “In Italy there is no violent and authoritarian drift, there is no fascist danger,” he explained.
call to an anti-fascist demonstration
The Minister’s words quickly sparked controversy, the opposition accusing him of not having condemned the assault. The mayor (Democratic Party, Center left) of Florence, Dario Nardella, asked for his resignation if he did not apologize. On February 22, an anti -fascist walk brought together two thousand young people in the streets of the Tuscan capital. Sign of tensions in the city, another group of far -right students, Blocco Studenttesco, burned the letter of the principal the same evening in front of the gates of its high school.
The arrival of the extreme right in power in September 2022 seems to have created a boiling climate in several schools, high schools or Italian universities, especially when left or far left unions are represented. On October 22, while Giorgia Meloni arrived in the House to obtain the confidence of the deputies, a demonstration had degenerated at the University of the Sapienza de Rome after anti -fascist students wanted to prevent the holding of a congress organized with representatives de Fratelli d’Italia.
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