Security package ready, crackdown on knives and baby gangs
Revocation of driving licence if caught with a bladed weapon. Stakes for judges on detaining migrants. Up to five years in prison for those who do not stop at the police's altar. These are some of the rules contained in the draft of the security package closed at the Viminale by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi in agreement with Palazzo Chigi and ready for one of the next Council meetings
by Andrea Gagliardi and Manuela Perrone
Key points
Draconian crackdown on knife carrying, crackdown on baby gangs and penalties also for parents who are not vigilant. Increased penalties for petty street crime dedicated to pickpocketing and house burglaries. No entry in the register of suspects in the presence of 'justification causes'. Stakes for judges on the validation of detentions of migrants. And tightening on family reunifications. These are some of the rules contained in the draft of the security package finalised at the Viminale by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi in agreement with Palazzo Chigi and ready for one of the next Council meetings. Piantedosi, replying to a question from the PD (Italian Democratic Party) at the House of Representatives, announced that the package would be presented 'shortly in Parliament', defining it as a 'test bench to understand who is really interested in collaborating for the security of citizens' in response to the Dems who accuse the government of 'making propaganda'. The acceleration comes as the League has been hammering for weeks to approve a crackdown on crime and illegal immigration, relaunching measures that find ample space in the incoming measure
The Quirinale's scrutiny will obviously be scrupulous, given that already in the previous security decree, Head of State Sergio Mattarella had regulations removed whereby the penalties for certain crimes were exorbitant.
A decree and a bill
The package, as anticipated by Il Sole 24 of 11 January, consists of a decree (with rules for the operational and organisational strengthening of the police force, the possible extension of 'red zones', and an increase in cameras for urban security) and a bill to which the main measures are entrusted
Turn on cutting weapons
Priority is given to the crackdown on the carrying of bladed weapons, not only in the wake of the news, such as the stabbing of the train conductor at Bologna station: according to the latest Istat reports, knives are the most commonly used weapon in both robberies and burglaries. Hence the ban on carrying knives with a sharp blade longer than 5 centimetres, punished with imprisonment from 1 to 3 years 'with an increase in the penalty from a third to a half, if the offence is committed by persons in disguise or by several persons gathered together or in particular places such as, for example, the immediate vicinity of credit institutions, educational or training institutions, public parks and gardens, railway stations, including underground stations'. And possible accessory administrative sanctions ranging from suspension of driving licences, weapons licences, passports and residence permits
Bavy gangs and parental sanctions
On the chapter of the baby gangs there is a multifaceted tightening. On the one hand, the catalogue of offences for which the Police Commissioner's warning can be applied to minors between 12 and 14 years of age has been extended to include personal injury, brawls, private violence and threats committed with the use of weapons or offensive instruments, the carrying of which is absolutely forbidden. On the other hand, in order to strengthen the educational and control action on minors, in the hypothesis of a warning q to a minor over the age of 14, 'a pecuniary administrative sanction from 200 to 1,000 euro was introduced against the person responsible for supervising the minor who has not proved that he was unable to prevent the act'.
