There are to be no changes to policing in Italian universities after recent student protests linked to Israel's war against Hamas sparked by the October 7 attacks and the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian population in Gaza, sources at the interior. (ANSA)
There were moments of tension at Rome's La Sapienza University on Tuesday after a group of leftwing students on Monday occupied the dean's office in protest at links with Israel and in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. (ANSA)
Students should be allowed to demonstrate freely on condition that order can be maintained, University Minister Anna Maria Bernini said on Friday amid a row after police baton-charged pro-Palestine protests in Pisa and Florence. (ANSA)