The trial on May 22 for the girl accused of resistance and injuries, and on May 23 for the boy accused of aggravated damage. Both boys arrested yesterday during the clashes that took place at La Sapienza in Rome are free.
No precautionary measures were taken. The girls and boys of the collectives have chained themselves and are on hunger strike starting today. "Our country is not yet willing to work to build the conditions for peace, but there is no more time - we read in an appeal written by the students," says Francesca from Cambiare Rotta. The student collectives met today at the Court of Rome to demonstrate against the arrest of two boys. The trial will take place on May 21st, and the judge has set the trial for May 23rd. "We will be on hungerstrike until the rector Antonella Polimeni listens to our requests," says Leonardo from the same organization. For Francesca, it is a "problem of internal democracy." "Violence is not, and never will be, an expression of freedom," added the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: "Devastation, attacks, clashes, attacks on a Rector's office and a police station, with a manager punched. This is not demonstrating, but crime." FSP State Police: "It is no longer possible to stand by and watch this continuous havoc against colleagues who create public order. It's time to take serious action. Uniformed operators must not be touched, those who participate in any demonstration must strictly stay away from women and men who perform a service for the community and cannot punctually suffer violence of any kind. The request comes from FSP general secretary of the State Police, Valter Mazzetti, who says: "We want a law that imposes a minimum distance between the demonstrators and the operators on duty. We expect more certain and severe punishments for those who attack them, and we loudly ask that the obligation to maintain a distance from members of the police be codified."