28,000 sensitive sites armoured and anti-terrorist wall: Italia's security measures

Piantedosi ordered more frequent meetings and compressed response times. The House is now working at an increased pace, with close sessions. The public security department of the Viminale is not standing still.

There is a front that is not fought at checkpoints. It is the web. The Digos and the Postal Police have intensified the informative activity with a precise objective: to intercept the so-called "lone wolves", isolated subjects capable of taking demonstrative action without belonging to structured networks. The monitoring focuses on forums, social channels, platforms where radicalization ferments and where an attack plan can take shape in a few hours.

It is a game of pure intelligence. The owner of the Viminale, after a direct confrontation with police chief Vittorio Pisani, had already on Saturday issued an urgent disposition on the entire territory, drawing attention to targets of 'priority sensitivity'. The alert was also extended to the operational emergency structures.

For Italia, this is an unprecedented scenario. In recent years, the national territory has been involved in international terrorism only on the periphery of the phenomenon: logistics, transit of fundamentalists with French and Belgian identities, financing of jihadist networks. Never at the centre of the crosshairs. But the current Middle Eastern context - unstable, incandescent, unpredictable - shifts the coordinates of the risk. And the government knows it.

The concern is not only for the foreign targets on the ground. It is for the Italians. For the internal security of a country that is, despite itself, dealing with the shockwaves of a conflict thousands of kilometres away but as close as an encrypted message on a Telegram channel.

The geopolitical tension also spills onto the streets. Two simultaneous mobilisations are announced for this afternoon, at 6pm, in Rome: one in Piazza Santi Apostoli, organised by the '7th October Committee' with the adhesion of various parties, to express solidarity with the Iranian people; the other near the United States embassy in Via Veneto, promoted by antagonist circles 'against imperialist aggression' in Tehran.

In Milan, at the same time, a presidium will be held in front of the US consulate. A few hours earlier, at 1pm, a flash-mob in piazza Montecitorio will ask parliamentarians to grant political patronage to the political prisoners arrested in Iran in the latest wave of protests.