It will take a few days, perhaps a few weeks, to assess the damage and establish a reopening date for Palazzo Nuovo, home to the humanities faculties of the University of Turin, after more than a month of occupation by pro-Palestine collectives. The situation was better in Fisica, where the damage was less important and the reopening will be quicker.
“We know that there is significant damage from the point of view of soiling which will necessarily require repainting and putting it back together”, explained the rector Stefano Geuna to the microphones of TgR Piemonte.
Protest for Gaza, occupation ends: students leave Palazzo Nuovo and Physics
by Cristina Palazzo
June 19, 2024
“In Physics there are fewer problems and it should be very quick – he continues – at Palazzo Nuovo it takes a few days, probably a few weeks, I’m not able to say because the checks are underway and the building is very large”.
On the boycott of collaborations between the University of Turin and Israeli universities and institutions, the main issue brought forward by the student protest, the rector, as well as the university bodies, believes “An indiscriminate interruption of all scientific relations with the universities of a certain country rather than another, with certain companies rather than others”.
“What we have promised to do – he explains – is an even more careful analysis of the projects to verify that there are no projects at risk and in that case there will certainly be interruption actions”.
