The students of the Gadda Rosselli institute take to the streets to defend the murals created in 2018, considered an element of the school’s identity and also an urban landscape that limits the degradation of vandalism.
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The protest to defend the murals at Gadda Rosselli in Gallarate 4 of 15
In the center is the surrounding wall of the Aloisianumthe Jesuit institute that had given authorization – on their behalf – to the creation of the mural, which was then rejected by the Landscape Commission after the municipal administration raised the issue (starting, however, from a report on another mural nearby).
The boys went down via De Albertis “to prevent or at least obtain a suspension” of the cancellationexplains Roberto Biba, one of the Institute representatives. “I am now five years that we go to school every day and we see these murals and let’s think about when there were only offensive writings on this wall” He says Tommaso Puricellianother student representative of the school.
The students’ protest accompanies the position taken by the teaching body, which expressed regret and asked to review the decision.
At the beginning the mobilization was supposed to involve only the fourth and fifth grade girls and boys, then those from other classes also joined. Some adults from outside the school were also on site, including the city councilor Massimo Gnocchi (councillor Sonia Serati, who is also a teacher at the school, was also present).
