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March 27, 2021 The appointment assigned to Professor Pasquale Vespa as consultant to Undersecretary Rossano Sasso has been revoked.
In a note, the ministry clarifies that the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi, while recognizing the autonomy of the undersecretaries in the appointment of their staff, having seen the press reports, asked the undersecretary Sasso to evaluate the appropriateness of the appointment.
Professor Vespa is on trial for defamation and threats against former minister Lucia Azzolina.
Meanwhile, the minister has received from the undersecretary the willingness of the professor to suspend his post, pending clarification of his position.
After the news of the appointment, on Facebook in a post the former minister Azzolina wrote: "He is a professor accused in a criminal case for repeated defamation in the press and serious threats. Pasquale Vespa spent the last two years of his life to publicly insult me, foment verbal assaults and sexual innuendo. Threatening me with death. A cyberbully, to all intents and purposes ".
And he added: "He tried to hide the content by removing it from his pages, this didn't stop him from being charged in a trial that will begin shortly."