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Some school furniture thrown in the garden by the occupiers (LaPresse)
“A broken bell, the rod of a desk, and a bag of alcohol bottle shards.” Oscar lists the objects found during the cleanup with his classmates.
Classes have been suspended since last Tuesday and will probably not resume until the end of the week. The content of about twenty fire extinguishers has been emptied in the premises and requires expensive sanitization.
And then there are the damages. “They broke toilets, computers, an interactive whiteboard, shattered glass, vandalized the walls, and destroyed the surveillance system on the side of via Alberti.
In the atrium, there was an exhibition. The panels were torn down and thrown around.
This year, the motive for the occupation was scattered. Now the Collective must have the courage to make amends for the damages,” say two students, Giacomo and Luca.
Only one girl from the Collective showed up at school. “I am devastated by how things went.
We worked for two months on this occupation, we were convinced that we were able, and yet the truth is that no one wanted to do anything. We had three collectives on Palestine, other debates and tournaments were canceled.
I proposed taking turns to guard the entrances, but nothing. Looking back, I wouldn’t re-do the occupation.
What I did doesn’t let me sleep at night.” About forty students broke in at night, but the principal managed to prevent them from locking the entrances.
Classes went on as usual, while the collective marched through the school with megaphones, inviting— in vain—other students to join. It is not excluded that they will try again.
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* February 6, 2024
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