Writer and teacher Christian Raimo has
been suspended from the Rome high school he works at for three
month on half pay after criticising and insulting Education
Minister Giuseppe Valditara during a recent public debate.
During the debate at the national festival of the Green-Left
Alliance (AVS), Raimo described Valditara as a "sleazy,
repressive, dangerous buffoon" and said he was a "target to hit
like the Death Star in Star Wars".
The comments led the Lazio regional education authority to open
disciplinary proceedings against Raimo, who was a candidate for
the AVS in June's European elections but was not voted in.
The suspension led to protests by students at Rome's Archimede
high school, where Raimo teaches, with a banner at the entrance
reading "three-month suspension for an opinion".
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