“I will apologize in a letter, but I will not reconsider my dissent, because I will not change my mind. The apology will only relate to the gesture itself, which comes from the history of Autonomia Operaia.”to the Republic » speaks the student protagonist of an episode in the Senate in the presence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The young man from the Augusto Righi high school in Rome mimed, with his index finger outstretched and his thumb up, the gun gesture with his hands, pointing it at government positions, immediately reprimanded by the teacher. President La Russa, at the invitation of his colleagues, censored the incident. And in the evening he read in the House the letter of apology from the director of the institute with the promise of severe punishment, although La Russa minimized and asked that it not be excessive. “If I had done the closed fist gesture, maybe all this mess wouldn't have happened. I apologize, but the dissidence towards this government and this political class remains”, now says the child to the Roman newspaper, while waiting to understand what the school will decide for him, “in my letter I apologize to the people present for my gesture, which was not intended to be a threat or a call for violence and I recognize that it was not a good gesture to express dissent towards those present. Everyone: right and left. And I ended it in my own way, to remind you that we are not on the same side. With 'dear anti-fascist greetings'.” The student then made it clear that the gesture was not at all directed towards the Prime Minister: “It was upwards, images and perspective can be misleading. I do not you don't particularly blame yourself: this is not a government of saints and good men. And there were also other politicians in the House who, in the past, certainly did not do any good to the students and to citizens.”
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