BBC: An Italian university has closed down one of its campuses to prevent a planned lecture by a controversial French professor and Holocaust denier.
Robert Faurisson has been convicted five times in France for denying crimes against humanity.
He was due to speak at the University of Teramo in central Italy as part of a Masters course in Middle East studies.
But the university decided to close part of the campus to prevent him addressing students.
It said the "climate of tension" might endanger the safety of its students. University shut in Holocaust row (more)
Mark Alexander
