Marcello Pera writes important stuff, but no one reads it. This great thinker is a travelling salesman for his books where he can, even in a public place like the University of Pisa. While Pera is explaining his fundamental starting point: “Why must we say that we are Christians?” inside the University, the Bobbies are beating up the students who are protesting in the street. All very Christian. The students pay the university fees, but they are not allowed to be present at Pera’s presentation. It’s not OK to criticise the PDL’s senator Pera, first a Craxian, then psycho-dwarfian, maintained in Parliament for four legislatures with tax payers’ money.
In the whole of Italy they are beating up the young people who are protesting, even in cowardly ways as happened in Bergamo. It’s not possible to continue like that. Sooner or later a death crops up. No one must be authorized to beat up an unarmed citizen, especially if they have a uniform. There is no extra-territorial place for violence. I invite the university students to explain their issues in Parliament. I would start with “Why we must not say that we are P2 members nor even mafia people“ Meanwhile let the senators and deputies known to the security forces (more than a hundred of them) receive appropriate tactical charges from the Bobbies.
They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.

”Dear signor Grillo,
I am Edoardo, aged 22, and I am studying at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Pisa and I collaborate as a freelance journalist with the Tuscan newspaper "il Tirreno". On Friday afternoon, a friend and I went to the Jurisprudence Faculty to attend the meeting with Senator Marcello Pera, who was to present a book. The idea was to try and ask a few questions but unfortunately things didn’t work out like that. Having arrived in front of the Faculty we joined in with a protest “sit-in” because the Faculty had been sealed up. Police officers in anti-riot gear did not allow us students to go into the Faculty building and they told us to go away. We made up a non-violent line and with hands raised above our heads, we continued to shout out our request to be allowed to have the possibility to take part in the debate. If only we hadn’t done that… As you can see from the video. It took only a few minutes for the spirits of the young Bobbies to be inflamed. We were subjected to 3 charges and many lads were beaten around their limbs. I have a hand that is dislocated and many young people that I didn’t know have found themselves with a broken head. I am not calling for your solidarity (or perhaps I am) but the people who landed up in those clashes were not "rioters", just young students who happened to be there: just think, in hospital I came across two 18 year olds, two students from Calabria who have only been living in Pisa for 6 months to study at the University, they are not political and they just wanted to attend the debate. The fact is this: it added insult to injury … it is true that in the video a few lads used a smoke bomb– but because of that, to say that 8 police officers were injured makes me laugh. I was there and I’m not a violent person. The greater the number of injured on our side, the more the number went up on the police side. The fact is that from the video you can see that we were attacked. And yet they are starting to pour out the denunciations against us (resistance??) and the national press has only reported the police injuries. I am really perturbed signor Grillo, here it is getting worse all the time. If even in a city with a strong left wing spirit like Pisa we are starting to see these things, it means that something is definitively changed. I beg you to reply to me, even if it’s just to say “I’m not interested”. Please really. I haven’t slept for three days.
I apologise for this letter reporting stuff that has no beginning or end but I feel really churned up… On the site of “Pisa notizie” you can watch the video….” Edoardo
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