Islamic activists among those infiltrating Italian universities. The alarm from the Interior Ministry

The alert is always high, but the line of Interior Ministry (and rectors) on the tent cities and occupations in favor of Palestine and against the agreements between university Italian and Israeli ones does not change. From Trieste, to Turin, passing through Bologna to Rome and Naples. With universities across the country in agitation. The collectives have been mobilizing for months with tent cities, but the government has chosen not to intervene, to guarantee “the free expression of thought” and avoid problems of public order. Even if the work of Digos does not stop and monitoring is continuous, both through dialogue with the organizers and through observation. The risk of infiltration by provocateurs and individuals linked to the anarchist world is real. But the greatest risk concerns the danger that the protest will be exploited by Islamic extremists and jihadists. As in the case of Turin with the imam’s sermon and defined by many teachers as a “Hymn to Jihad”. For this reason, attention is focused on the national demonstration scheduled in Rome for Saturday 1 June and on the National Assembly on 2 June.

INFILTRATOR RISK

The fear is that subjects outside the university world could infiltrate with the sole purpose of exploiting dissent, fueling clashes and forms of violence. The number of cases in which critical issues were recorded is limited. In April, when the clashes occurred at Wisdomin addition to some anarchist exponents, Jehad Othman, of the Palestinian Arab Democratic Union, was also identified. Giordano, a 62-year-old Palestinian refugee, served a 24-year sentence in Italy for the attempted murder, in October 1984 in Via Cassia, of the vice consul of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed Al Sowaidi who was seriously injured, and for the murder by Noushine Montasserim, the young Iranian who was in the company of the diplomat. Othman was also accused of having claimed responsibility for the attack with a telephone call to Paris on behalf of the Arab Revolutionary Brigades.

THE CHOICE

Last May 14th, the order and safety committee met at the Interior Ministry, requested by the University Minister Anna Maria BerniniIn addition to the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, the representative of the Conference of Rectors (Crui), the heads of the police forces and intelligence participated. It was Piantedosi himself, immediately afterwards, who clarified that critical issues were recorded during the demonstrations for Palestine «only in a limited number of cases» thanks to the «profitable collaboration between rectors and representatives of the police forces, thanks to which it was It was possible to limit tensions.” A situation, he clarified Plant yourself which requires that we move forward “with effective mediation activities by those responsible for the universities and the police forces to prevent repercussions on public order”. The alarm remains: «Particular attention – said the minister – is aimed at preventing subjects outside the university world from infiltrating demonstrations for the sole purpose of exploiting dissent by fueling forms of violence incompatible with the free expression of thought». A line with which the Interior Ministry intends to continue, also to avoid disorder and controversy. Furthermore, the imminent conclusion of the academic year also leads to a further evaluation of opportunities for interventions.

THE LAW

The different position of the rectors certainly also affects the lack of eviction. Also because, in the case of occupation, the starting point for a possible intervention by the police is the complaint by the owner of the university, i.e. the rector. And if in general occupying a building owned by others is a crime, the interpretation of the code is more flexible in the case of student protests. Because students are not completely strangers to university. It was the Supreme Court of Cassation, in 2000, that established that students are «active subjects of the school community and participants in its management» and therefore the case of the employment of university students «cannot be in any way homologated with that, relevant in the different crime of trespass, of remaining in another’s home against the will of the holder of the ius excludendi”. The police can take the students away, but the eviction is not immediate and certain steps must be respected.

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