In the security package also revised shield and detention

Out with the bail for organisers of demonstrations demanded by Matteo Salvini's League. Inside, the tightening of knives and the extension of the Urban Daspo, but also, rewritten, the other two controversial measures: the shield for agents and anyone else who resorts to weapons or force 'in the presence of a cause of justification', modified with the provision of a double register - the classic one of suspects and a separate one for those whom the Prosecutors believe have acted in self-defence - and the 'preventive detention', strongly resized. The 80-page security dossier - a decree and a Ddl - revised and corrected by the government in response to Giorgia Meloni's request to write it 'Constitution-proof' was sent by Palazzo Chigi to the Colle yesterday, with the hope of approving it on Thursday 5 February in the Council of Ministers.

"We will not back down, we need clarity and commitment from everyone", the promise delivered to Far West on Rai Tre by the premier, who received a delegation from the programme to shake hands with correspondent Bianca Leonardi, who was attacked with the crew by a group of antagonists during Saturday's demonstration in Turin against the eviction of Askatasuna.

On Tuesday, 3 February Matteo Piantedosi, in his briefing to the House, was outspoken against the violent. The strategy in place 'recalls squadrist and terrorist dynamics'. Then the lunge ("Those who parade with the delinquents end up offering them prospects of impunity") and the defence of the regulations in place, including preventive detention for those suspected of preventing the peaceful conduct of demonstrations. "Saturday's shameful scenes," stressed the Viminale incumbent, "call for the need to depower groups of troublemakers before they can trigger spirals of violence with specific measures for filtering action and therefore with preventive detention for known subjects, without anyone shouting an attack on democracy.

The executive preferred to take an extra day with respect to the Cdm meeting that was scheduled for Thursday 4. The motivation was twofold: to give more time to the debate with the Quirinal for the constitutionality screening of the umpteenth intervention on the Penal Code and to guarantee a parliamentary vote to strengthen the measures. By stemming the pressure of Matteo Salvini's Carroccio, which, on the day of Vannacci's farewell, with Fdi and Fi angry about the possible consequences on the coalition, irritated the allies by insisting on bail and "whoever breaks pays".

The path found is the one decided by a majority at the conference of group leaders in the Senate: Piantedosi's report on Turin was transformed into communications, set for Thursday 4 February in the late morning (at the end of the reports to the Chamber on Ice in Milan Cortina), so as to allow a vote. Meloni's appeal to the oppositions for a united resolution fell on deaf ears. The group leaders of the PD, M5S, Avs, and Iv attacked the government and the majority: "They rejected our request to have Minister Musumeci report on the tragic situation in Niscemi and in Sicily, Sardinia, and Calabria. This right wing exploits what happened in Turin to endorse authoritarian shortcuts on security, but saves Musumeci and Schifani from their responsibilities". The centre-right's version was different: Senate President Ignazio La Russa tried to mediate and the majority was willing to change even Musumeci's report into communications, but the PD party still opposed Piantedosi's communications. Hence the lack of unanimity in the group leader's meeting, which will also require a vote in the House on the modified calendar. In the face of the events in Turin, 'too serious and serious', explained Minister Luca Ciriani, a document voted by Parliament is needed to make it clear that 'we are on the side of the State and there is no room for anyone to minimise, deny or justify this type of violence'.