"The school that for years has not protected the students is compensated: it is shameful". Massimo Locci is a teacher. But he speaks as the father of one of the girls who attended the Eleonora D'Arborea school in Cagliari when Marcello Melis was in the chair, a mathematics teacher sentenced to ten years for extortion and sexual violence against female students of the teaching institute. The criminal case was definitively closed in 2018, with the verdict of the Cassation.
The news of the last few days, however, is that of the sentence of the Court of Auditors, which held him responsible for damage to the image of the school: he will have to pay 100 thousand euros. Nothing is owed to the girls, his victims, now grown up and some turned professionals. They had not even formed a civil party in court.
How many there were, exactly, is not known. And this is also an element that infuriates Locci. For years, before his arrest, he tried to stir things up. He knew something was wrong: "But the school didn't do anything." Almost.
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