Nine students of pro-Palestine university collectives they chained themselves this morning. Thursday 13 June, at the entrance gates of the main office of Polytechnic of Turin, in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi. A Polytechnic professor chained himself together with the students. A gesture of solidarity by Massimo Zucchetti, full professor at PoliTo. Zucchetti had it in 2015 the nomination for the Nobel Prize in Physics. «Am I also a troublemaker of the social centers? An outsider, a stranger? -he shouted-Shame on you, if it wasn’t for the students the Polytechnic would make a terrible impression. This should be a university, it’s not an exam factory, it’s not a career factory. Take a stand, are you university professors or not?”
«Out of solidarity with the students I also chained myself to the gates. It is not a violent action and a non-violent action, like those Gandhi did, but a decisive one, because we don’t bother anyone except with our words”, explained Zucchetti.
«The Polytechnic needs to become a decent university, that is, many others like me express their opinion – continued the professor – I am with the students, I am in favor of a moderate action of convincing Israeli universities so that they join us in supporting the opposition to this invasion in Gaza.”
«Today the student intifada at the Polytechnic has been going on for a month without any response from the university governance. – explain the activists – For this reason the students decided to chain themselves to the gates, blocking the main entrance to the central headquarters of the Polytechnic”.
For a month, activists have been participating in the occupations of the three university buildings in the Piedmontese capital to ask for a halt to agreements between universities and institutions, Israeli universities and military companies. Also present on site is the Digos of the Turin Police Headquarters.
Late in the morning the young activists joined, chaining themselves to the gates, too Massimo Zucchettiprofessor of nuclear plants in the inter-university Peace Studies Committee and exponent of the No Tav movement. In 2022 Zucchetti was among the teachers who asked the Polytechnic to renounce the agreement with Frontex, the European agreement for the control of immigrants
