The life senator Francesco Cossiga has finally left office.
[On the protests of university students]
let him. Withdraw the police from the streets and universities, infiltrate the movement with provoking agents ready for anything, and leave it for ten days or so demonstrators devastate shops, set fire to the machines and put the city on fire. [. ..] After that, the strong popular support, the sound of ambulance sirens must be higher than that of Police cars and police. [...] In the sense that the police should massacre the demonstrators without pity and send them all to hospital. Do not stop, so that then the judges would call them now at liberty, but beat to a pulp beaten and even those teachers who incite them.
[ from the open letter to the police]
effective policy and order should be based on a broad popular consensus, and consensus is formed on fear, not to the police, but to protesters [...] Ideally, these events was the victim a bystander, rather an old man, a woman or a child, was wounded by some stroke of gunshot fired by the demonstrators: just a slight wound, but better would be if it were serious, but without endangering the lives [...] I would expect a little 'and only after that the situation is serious, and columns of students with militants of the social centers, the song of hello Bella, devastated streets, shops , assault and public infrastructure held in ordinary police and riot ferissero and some of them, even killing him, I would intervene heavily and severely the police against the demonstrators.
(Francesco Kossiga, November 8, 2008 )