Among directors, actors and popular characters among children, in the program of Giffoni film festival this year also prof. Alessandro Orsini. The professor of sociology of terrorism at Luiss was announced with discrete enthusiasm on the Twitter profile of the event, on which it is explained that Orsini will meet the boys “to whom we are sure, he will give very interesting notions!”. But that enthusiasm does not seem very shared on social networks, where Giffoni’s profile has been targeted by criticisms and comments at times ferocious. The choice of the Luiss teacher inevitably causes discussion, already ousted by the direction of the Confindustria University Observatory on International Security, especially after the controversial positions that Orsini has stubbornly held since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, considered by the teacher’s detractors to be explicitly pro-Persian.
“But a little shame? – asks the former trade unionist Marco Bentivogli – call Lavrov directly. We are still waiting to understand why Eni financed the observatory for him ». Dal Giffoni tried to defend the choice, explaining that the festival «is a free territory. Where thought is free. Where everyone is free to express their opinions ». The journalist adds to the dose Fulvio Paglialunga, author of Agorà su Raitre: «Do well. Someone has to explain to young people how to live happily during a dictatorship ». The reference is to one of Orsini’s unforgettable statements a Cartabiancawhen he told that his grandfather had lived as a happy child during the fascism. And the former FdI parliamentarian also goes down hard Guido Crosetto: «After the“ Bimbe di Conte ”here are the“ Orsini’s Children ”. Born as a film festival for children and ended up as a partisan place. Congratulations on having managed to ruin a wonderful idea ».
