(ANSA) - FOGGIA, OCTOBER 25 - Impressive safety measures in the field in Foggia where the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, will arrive at 11 am to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the University's academic year. About seventy people, including agents of the mobile squad and personnel of the Carabinieri battalion are working on ensuring public order. The maximum security area, closed to traffic, is in correspondence with the large hall of the University where the ceremony will take place. Also present were two teams of bomb squads, anti-sabotage dog units, selected shooters, 45 agents of the local police, agents of the Penitentiary Police and soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza.
"Foggia - explains the rector of the University of Foggia, Pierpaolo Limone - is the anti-mafia city where people, starting from culture, knowledge, science, take possession of their future". "Our goal - he added - is to close a path to the social anti-mafia that today finds its highest expression with the presence of the Head of State. But the visit has a much wider meaning for us, that of recognizing the quality of the work that is it carries out within this university in terms of research, training and the opportunities that this university offers to the whole surrounding area ". "I believe - he concluded - there is a close collaboration between us and the best forces of the Capitanata to regain possession of the future and redesign it in the best possible way".(HANDLE).