According to rector Polimeni, the “costs produced by the damage that have been generated by this destructive will will have to be covered to the detriment of other activities and actions that are particularly useful and urgently requested by various components of our community, starting from the student community”.
The damage caused by vandalism and student occupations amounted to at the end of May 300 thousand euros. And, according to the rector of theLa Sapienza University of Rome, Antonella Polimeniincreased further in the first weeks of June and this will lead to an outlay of money which, the professor warns, will lead to a cut in activities and actions also requested by the student community itself.
According to Polimeni in June “the violence continued and the damage increased. The violence was also unleashed on the many plants that had just been buried. On the night between Friday 30 May and Saturday 1 June, the Faculty of Letters was occupied, despite having the Dean expressed their willingness to provide a suitable room to host a meeting. Over the weekend, many people with their faces covered left the occupied University and then returned at the end of a demonstration vandalism continued and did not spare any building within the University City, including the Chapel and the spaces dedicated to services for students with disabilities or DSA”.
In a long letter sent to professors and staff of the university, Polimeni informed that the Academic Senate and the Board of Directors of Sapienza have discussed and unanimously approved a document regarding the issues of peace and freedom of research. But, added the rector, “unfortunately the actions carried out to express criticism of the positions expressed by the Collegial Bodies were neither legitimate nor peaceful”.
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For weeks the university city has suffered “vandalism of unprecedented violence and importance”. And this, added Polimeni, will require a large outlay of money to increase the garbage disposal service, to restore the locks, remove the graffiti (some defined as “particularly outrageous and offensive”), replace furniture and video surveillance equipment and damaged public lighting or destroyed.
As anticipated, according to the rector, the “costs produced by the damage that have been generated by this destructive will will have to be covered to the detriment of other activities and actions that are particularly useful and urgently requested by various components of our community, starting from the student community”.
