Government pressure on 'shield' for agents by decree law
Summit tomorrow at Palazzo Chigi: security package expected in Council of Ministers on Wednesday, push to qualify protection as 'urgent'
Key points
The violent clashes yesterday in Turin at the demonstration against the eviction of Askatasuna, with the videos of the agent being kicked and hammered that have gone around the web, accelerate the process of the security package, expected on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. "That is why we need the new regulations," is the chorus that has gone out from the government. And the premier, Giorgia Meloni, announced an ad hoc meeting for tomorrow morning.
There are two measures in particular that the executive has indicated as urgent and therefore worthy of being moved from the bill, where the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi had prudently placed them, to the decree-law: the restriction on the carrying of knives and the procedural protection to avoid automatic registration in the register of suspects, a 'shield' designed primarily for the police. Added to this is the so-called 'preventive detention', with which the centre-right intends to combat precisely incidents at demonstrations.
Confrontation with the Colle, the government hits the news button
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, called Piantedosi in the evening to ask him to convey his solidarity to the assaulted officer and to all the other police forces that have suffered violence. And it is on the record that Palazzo Chigi is beating the drum in its talks with the Hill to overcome doubts about the actual necessity and urgency of the two measures. First the lethal stabbing of Youssef Abanoub by a fellow student in a school in La Spezia, then the case of the policeman investigated for voluntary manslaughter for having killed 28-year-old Abdherraim Mansouri during an anti-smuggling control in Rogoredo, and finally the scenes in Turin blamed even by the opposition, with the PD and M5S in the lead.
Meloni attacking 'lax' magistrates
The government has done its part by strengthening the tools to fight impunity, but now it is essential that the judiciary does its part to the end so that there is no repetition of lax episodes that in the past have cancelled sacrosanct measures against those who devastate our cities and attack those who defend them. Words that recall those of the beginning of the year, when Meloni had lashed out against magistrates who make 'the work of the forces of law and order in vain'. A refrain that will be repeated in the campaign for the Yes vote in the referendum on justice.
The race between Fdi and Lega to head the rules
Between uniforms and togas, the majority is very clear on which side it stands. This explains why the Fratelli d'Italia of Meloni and the League of Matteo Salvini have been competing for months to take the paternity of the intervention on the 'shield' that wants to allow the Pm to not provide for the registration of suspects when 'it appears that the use of weapons or force took place in the presence of a cause of justification'. Yesterday the Lega Nord deputy premier spoke in Florence at the 'Io sto col poliziotto' (I'm with the policeman) initiative to support the shield for officers in the decree, which is the aim of the proposals presented in the Chamber of Deputies and the League and the other new decree in the Senate, also by FDI, which envisages the request of the competent minister as a 'condition of prosecution' for crimes committed on duty with the use of weapons.
