(ANSA) – TURIN, MAY 16 – Action by Pro-Palestine students who defaced the walls of the rectorate of the University of Turin in via Po, in the city centre. Last evening, during a torchlight procession to remember the Nakba, organized by those who are currently occupying various departments, graffiti was made that read “UniTo complicit in the genocide” and “Student Intifada”. Under heavy rain, a few hundred students from the ‘Cambiare Rotta’ and ‘Collettivo Universitario Autonomo’ collectives, after leaving Palazzo Nuovo, home of the humanities faculties, marched through the streets of the centre.
At the head the banner with the words ‘”1948-2024 The Nakba continues. Stop the genocide”. The demonstration first reached Piazza Castello, where the activists climbed the monument dedicated to Emanuele Filiberto Duca d’Aosta and lit warning torches and hung Palestinian flags. The procession then continued to Palazzo di Città, where a few days ago the city council had voted to name some streets after Israeli figures. “We crossed the center with a procession that took back the streets with anger and determination – say the activists – We reiterated throughout Turin that we want a free Palestine and that we will fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people in every place where the shouts manage to reach “. “The procession renamed the main squares with the names of the martyrs of the Palestinian resistance and sanctioned the rectorate to denounce UniTo’s complicity in the ongoing genocide”, they claim. (HANDLE). .
