Monday 17 February 2020

Sapienza university, young right-wing will speak before mrs. Segre. Left students: “No, it is neo-fascist”. He: “I share her battles against the hate”




The young man, who is part of the right-wing youth movement "Popular Generation" and says he has Matteo salvini and Giorgia meloni as points of reference, assures that his speech will have "nothing political": "I’m sorry to be labeled without people knowing my contents," he said in response to who asked for his intervention to be deleted

16 FEBBRAIO 2020

IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO



“adheres to neo-fascist organizations“. This is the attack of the left-wing students on the columns of Corriere della Sera to Valerio Cerracchio, a right-wing student from La Sapienza who will speak on Tuesday on behalf of the university students at the opening of the academic year. During the ceremony will be awarded the honoris causa degree to Liliana segre in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio mattarella. Cerracchio rejected the accusations and spoke of attempts to exploit“, saying that he had nothing to do with fascism which belongs to another era”; and to believe in democracy and the principles of our Constitution”. Wisdom did not comment on the controversies.




Cerracchio, an engineering student, belongs to the university list“Students on the move“, which brings together young people from different policy areas. Individually, however, is part of the right-wing youth movement“Popular Generation“. This is precisely what has earned him the accusations of neo-fascism by some colleagues in the university. Cerracchio, as a young right-wing man, acknowledges that his political references are Matteo salvini and Giorgia meloni. At the same time he says he fully shares the battle against the life-long senator’s hatred and witness of the Shoah Liliana segregates: “The hate has no political color and, in small, I am experiencing it myself right now.




The student said that his speech will have no“nothing political“, but“will focus on the difficulties and loneliness that a student may encounter in his or her studies. I’m sorry to be labeled without people knowing my contents. Even the battles I bring out of the university range from environmental protection to social“. Antonio lodise, the student representative on the Board of Directors of the university elected by“Sapienza in Movimento”, a student who defines himself as“left”, also stood at his side: “In our list we are apartitic, not apolitical, we fight for students and the goal is to overcome positions that prevent dialogue. Everything that happens in accordance with our Constitution, which is anti-fascist, is admissible, the rest is not. A democracy is based on comparison, not censorship. This is instrumental chatter that creates barricades I regret”.