Students should be allowed to demonstrate freely on condition that order can be maintained, University Minister Anna Maria Bernini said on Friday amid a row after police baton-charged pro-Palestine protests in Pisa and Florence.
"I believe that students can demonstrate freely as long as they do not make it impossible to maintain order," said Bernini.
"I have always been the number one supporter of demonstrations, even of protest. Then it has to be seen how intense the demonstration, the protest, is," she added.
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