Siena, the professor who praised Hitler retires and avoids dismissal

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Siena, the Nazi professor who praises Hitler on Twitter. The university requests dismissal

Just today, Thursday 19 December, the discipline college who will still have to comment on the fate of the professor who ended up in the storm a few weeks ago for having published some posts in which the Nazi dictator was praised. The team of colleagues of the professor called to identify the type of "punishment" will go ahead in examining the acts and hearing the parties involved. It is a pity that when the decision arrives, whatever it may be, it may prove ineffective and never actually applied because Castrucci is already retired.

The professor, born in Monterosso al Mare (La Spezia) on June 3, 1952, although he could continue to teach until he was 70, has already matured his retirement age. The rector of the University of Siena, Francesco Frati, who had asked for his dismissal with the support of the entire academic senate, could do nothing but arrange, by decree, to retire.In the meantime the disciplinary board has examined all the material transmitted and to acquire further elements of judgment has decided to convene, in addition to the interested party, some representatives of the students of the Faculty of Law and the president of the teaching committee. "The disciplinary sanctioning procedure goes ahead anyway, regardless of the fact that Castrucci will retire – he explains Gabriella Piccinni, president of the discipline college – The next meeting will be in January and we will give our opinion. Then it will be up to the Board of Directors to approve it "." It is not up to us, but it will be the laws of the State – he points out – to say if the possible sanction can be applied or not to a person who is already retired ".

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Meanwhile, the rector had already blocked all the educational activities of Castucci, also preventing his participation in exams, elections and the reception of students. The professor is investigated by attorney of Siena, which hypothesized the crime of propaganda and instigation to commit crimes on the grounds of racial ethnic and religious discrimination, aggravated by denial.

The power of attorney headed by the chief prosecutor Salvatore Vitello he had also asked for the seizure of the teacher's Twitter profile, but the judge of the Sienese court, Roberta Malavasi, had rejected the ordinance claiming that in those tweets there were no details of the crime of propaganda and incitement to racial hatred, but only a historical and apologetic reinterpretation of the figure of Hitler.

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