Milan, May 7 (LaPresse) – "I was almost 19 at the time. I remember that dramatic photo of President Sergio, picking up his brother, murdered by the Red Brigades, and pulling him out of his car." In Avellino, Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara makes a gaffe over the naming of a school after Piersanti Mattarella. Piersanti Mattarella, in fact, was killed by the mafia. "There is sterile controversy over Piersanti Mattarella," the minister reiterated. "After having strongly wanted to be present at the naming of a school in the province of Avellino dedicated to Piersanti Mattarella, a victim of the mafia, and after having today recalled at least 20 times in various public speeches, some of which are also visible online, that Piersanti Mattarella was 'killed by the mafia,' it is an act of looting that I use a slip of the tongue, within the framework of several statements all correct, to make sterile polemics. Let's deal with serious things, such as the resounding failure of today's school strike called by some trade unions."

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