Askatasuna, Piantedosi: antagonists have political cover. "Great work, far greater damage avoided"

'Saturday's riots confirm the true face of the antagonists in the squatted social centres, sometimes also thanks to clearly identifiable political cover'. Thus Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, in his briefing to the Chamber on the saturday's riots in Turin. 'I believe that those who parade alongside these delinquents end up offering them a prospect of impunity,' the minister added. Words greeted with applause.

The 'great work done has prevented much more serious damage that was in the plans of the demonstrators, also reducing the front of violent aggressors'. This was said by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi in a statement to the Chamber of Deputies on the Turin clashes. "The Ministry of the Interior had ordered the dispatch of a significant amount of reinforcements - about 1,000 units of the Police Force Departments - and, at the same time, careful measures were taken to control the territory and monitor the railway stations, the airport, the motorway toll booths and border crossings precisely to intercept, with the support of the information activities of the Police Authorities of the places of departure, the arrival of subjects known for specific precedents".

 Applause and centre-right parliamentarians on their feet when Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi referred in his briefing to the House to 'political cover-ups' of the demonstrators in Turin. At the end of his speech applause only from the majority benches.

The measures contained in the security package 'are being criticised today by those who attribute the incidents solely to alleged prevention deficits and not, as was the case, to a precise criminal determination on the part of those who carried out the violence'. This was said by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi in his briefing to the Chamber of Deputies on the Turin clashes. 'We are thinking of regulations that can safeguard not only the agents who are victims of aggression, but also all citizens, without creating immune shields,' he added. Then the minister stressed: 'In a constitutional state under the rule of law like Italy, the police forces are a bulwark of democracy and freedom. They do not ask for immunity, but they must not be moving targets of crime and they must also be able to operate without being burdened by a constant and systematic presumption of guilt'.