I copy and paste the letter of a boy in high school rate on the clashes of Rome's Piazza Navona 10/29/2008. The italics are mine. The Deputy Minister
Palma has reconstructed the events of Wednesday, the House in a somewhat 'different leaving out the background.
am a high school student that the rate at 29.10.2008 was manifest in Piazza Navona Gelmini against the reform, a peaceful demonstration with nice choruses absolutely non-violent approaches when suddenly a pickup truck with music at all volume that want to reach the head of the procession, but there is no place to advance the students are not too many dematerialize , then here is the tension grows, it begins with a discussion of these newcomers, all in their twenties to block student, I understand that pulls air and I start to observe the scene in a more secluded location even though it seems absurd that we can come to a violent confrontation, we are boys and girls most olds, even students accompanied by professors and then they sing "neither red nor blacks, but free thought." But at the end of this chorus is unleashed violence, squads of qusto openly neo-fascist group of enthusiasts. The guys are blocking tick batons, chains, knives, iron bars, a veritable arsenal magically passed unnoticed by the police and the panic charge anyone confronted, a boy tries to defend itself is surrounded by 10 people and beaten up, who can take refuge in the bars, tries to escape this mindless violence unleashed all of a sudden in front of the 'sly eye agents.
With this first charge
lock secures the best position to govern the event, we boys are confused, frightened, morale is down, you count to see if a friend was injured. Those beasts block ironically sing a chorus: "we are all students" , the most daring respond, "we are all anti-fascists" and again the fiercest part of another charge that moves us further away from the center of Piazza Navona , still wounded, still beatings, still that carelessness on the part of law enforcement that upsets me, terrifies me, because in a democratic country can not be defended? It 's a strange feeling, of loss, the State had always believed my side fuck it if I take the baton.
Everything back to "normality", Block got the position he wanted, but we learn that the children of the social functions of universities are coming, I understand that there will soon be hell and back with my friends where the rate also , expect a raid to block student but that's another sad story of a country where political assassinations are passed to the partisans and fascists as victims.
PS. I learned that the government has declared that it was us left-wing students to attack block, for better or we are the idiots not to be noticed that a group that slaughters barrel of innocent boys who were guilty of being there, doing it for self-defense, or perhaps it is you who try to sell again your shameful truth also point to defend the fascist squads.
(Letter signed)
(October 31, 2008)