It will take days, perhaps a few weeks to assess the damage and establish a reopening date New Palacehome to the humanities faculties of the University of Turin, abandoned by protesters after more than a month of occupation of pro-Palestine collectives.
Better situation instead a Physicswhere the damage was less severe 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,” he explained the rector Stefano Geuna to the microphones of TgR Piemonte. «In Physics there are fewer problems and it should be very quick. At Palazzo Nuovo it will take a few days, probably a few weeks, I’m not able to say because the checks are underway and the building is very large.”
As for the walls of the Rectorate on via Podaubed with writings during the procession with which the occupants moved from Palazzo Nuovo to the Polytechnic on Thursday, the structure has already been cleaned.
On the boycott of collaborations between the University of Turin and Israeli universities and institutionsthe main request 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 with others”: “What we have promised ourselves 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”.
An information to Turin prosecutor’s office was meanwhile broadcast by Digos regarding the Pro Palestine occupations in the universities of the Piedmontese capital. The possible crimes reported are: occupation of buildings and interruption of public services. One of the aspects that will need to be examined in the next few days concerns the extent of damage resulting from littering and vandalism.
