Fifty books, one hundred essays and almost one thousand scientific articles. But for the words spoken during the “Quarta Repubblica” broadcast, Professor Angelo D’Orsi, student of Norberto Bobbio and professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin, was sued by Siap, one of the police unions.
The cornerstone of the scandal was the truncheon beatings of the students in Pisa which caused quite a bit of controversy and also the loud intervention of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
«Our lawyer, the lawyer Gigante of the Picozzi e Morigi law firm, as announced, has filed a complaint with the Rome prosecutor’s office against Professor Angelo D’Orsi» declared the general secretary of Siap, Giuseppe Tiani. «Ours – underlined Tiani – are actions to protect the professional, personal and family dignity of policemen».
But what had Professor D’Orsi said during the broadcast? «When I see a policeman swinging a truncheon with the pleasure of doing it, two things come to mind: one, for that truncheon there is a sort of social revenge towards the student, almost envy. You are studying, you are privileged, I am not here to be massacred with low salaries. The second is the fact that too often, very often those policemen, and they told me so themselves in the interviews I did from ’69 to ’72, took drugs, took substances to support the weight, but this also makes you lose the inhibitory brakes.”
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