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“I do not want to become the founder’s son used to symbolise a continuity with which, on certain fundamental principles, I no longer identify. This is not the Luxottica I grew up in. And it is not the Luxottica I remember alongside my father,” he wrote in a letter to the group’s chairman and CEO