We will not die going to School!

The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) could not have received any worse news during our General Assembly in Copenhagen. The horrific event in Brindisi yesterday is incomprehensible. To attack school students whilst they are arriving at school is an unbelievably brutal act and shows the importance of the role school students must play in the continued fight for legality, free and secure democracy.

We, as the representative Assembly of the school student organisations in Europe, feel the sorrow of the families and school colleagues of the victims of the school “Morvillo Falcone”. We join the anger of all the Italian school students shown through spontaneously organised demonstrations throughout Italy.

“The school should be a place of legality and democratic citizenship, we will not die going to school” said the representatives of Unione degli Studenti (UdS) – Italy. UdS have announced assemblies and demonstrations for the next week in all schools “to raise awareness of the culture of legality and fight any terrorist acts”. For more information, click here.