(ANSA) - Lucca, April 19 - Three students, all minors, have been officially placed under criminal investigation by police in the Tuscan city of Lucca for allegedly bullying one of their teachers after a video in which the teens appeared to threaten and insult him went viral.
The headmaster of the technical institute 'Carrara' where the incident took place is scheduled to file a lawsuit on Thursday following the police probe, investigators said.
The video in particular shows one of the students threatening the 64-year-old Italian and history professor if he did not give him a pass-grade, insulting the man and asking him to kneel in front of him as other students are heard laughing in the background.
It is the latest in a series of alarming episodes in which teachers have been threatened, insulted or attacked by parents or pupils in Italy.
In a separate case, a secondary-school student in Velletri near Rome threatened to dissolve a teacher in acid. "I'll dissolve you in acid, I'll send you to the hospital prof," the student said a year ago in a video posted on social media which has now gone viral.
Carabinieri police have reported the case to prosecutors in the town south of the Italian capital
Three minors probed for allegedly bullying Lucca teacher
Professor humiliated by students in video that has gone viral