(see related) President Sergio Mattarella's offices said Friday that the head of State had phoned La Repubblica editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari to express his solidarity after a protest by students stopped the journalist from taking part in a debate at the Federico II University in Naples.
Molinari has come under fire for allegedly being too sympathetic with Israel after it waged war on Hamas following the October 7 massacres.
The statement by the head of State's office said Mattarellastated that "what must be banned from universities is intolerance.
"Those who claim the right to impose their ideas by preventing people who think differently from expressing theirs are incompatible with higher education," he said.
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