Security, towards the shield for agents and the crackdown on knives in the decree. Meloni to oppositions: united resolution

In a note published by Palazzo Chigi at the end of the summit that took place in the morning, it is stated that "President Meloni and the government reiterate their full support for the forces of law and order and, in this delicate phase - also in light of the declarations made by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein - they intend to appeal to the opposition for close institutional cooperation. For this reason, the majority group leaders have received a mandate to propose to the opposition ones the presentation of a unified resolution on security, which could be voted on as early as this week on the occasion of Minister Matteo Piantedosi's reports".

"Does the government now really want to listen to our proposals? Is it really willing to do things seriously and responsibly without taking advantage of a single episode for instrumental tactics? If yes, we are there and we are willing to verify it." M5s President Giuseppe Conte wrote this on social media. "We are ready to immediately share a resolution that commits the government to give the answers that so far there have not been, starting with more investment to make up for the lack of personnel in the police force and more funds to make our cities safe." And 'we hope that on our proposal there will be a convergence of all the political forces of majority and opposition'.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made this clear on Sunday when she visited the injured officers in Turin during the pro-Askatasuna demonstration. "We will do what it takes to restore the rules in this nation," were her words.

It was those attacks, including the one on 29-year-old Alessandro Calista, who was discharged after 24 hours with a 20-day prognosis, that made the premier speed up. Meloni has decided to open the week at Palazzo Chigi with a government summit, at around 11.15am, which is expected to be attended by vice-premiers Antonio Tajani (in liaison) and Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio and undersecretaries Alfredo Mantovano and Giovanbattista Fazzolari.

All this 'to talk about the threats to public order these days and to evaluate the new regulations of the security decree'. The subject will also be discussed the following day, Tuesday 3 February, with Piantedosi's briefing in Parliament (2pm in the Chamber, 4pm in the Senate), which, however, the majority is now asking for to be turned into a communication so that deputies and senators can vote. Deciding how to proceed will be the Conferences of Group Leaders, which are scheduled to meet tomorrow in both houses of Parliament.

Also on the table at the meeting in Palazzo Chigi was the list of measures for the decree to be presented on Wednesday. Salvini continued to insist on a full-bodied intervention, with the protection that prevents officers from being automatically entered in the register of suspects and the preventive detention for suspicious demonstrators before marches, which in his view should increase 'even to 48 hours'.

on Saturday," he explained in a speech to RTL 102.5, "we saw terrorist actions, when there are attacks from three sides on patrols that are isolated, and we are talking about professionals, with stones, rocks, hammers and paper bombs, it is not something improvised and pre-organised, which is why some rules that we had drawn up as the League in the past months have become urgent, I am thinking of the possibility of carrying out searches on the spot, preventive detention for up to 12 hours, I would say up to 24 hours and then also the bail for those who organise processions. I remember that the League in the past was asked to leave a deposit in case some idiot did damage, we left them and we never lost a euro. I think it is reasonable to make those who organise processions responsible from an insurance point of view. We propose that they enter this package with an express lane'.

To support these changes, the League organised gazebos throughout Italy.

A measure that would be considered fundamental by the insiders to allow demonstrations to take place peacefully. In the drafts circulated in recent weeks, it was included in the bill, with the possibility of detaining for up to 12 hours for investigations those suspected of 'constituting a danger to the peaceful conduct of the demonstration and to public safety and security' on the basis of 'factual elements, the possession of weapons, offensive instruments, or the use of helmets' or other instruments to camouflage the face. But the doubts of constitutionality are still very high and the debate, also with the Colle's experts, continues.

On the other hand, there was opposition from Antonio Tajani's Azzurri to the proposal advocated by the League to oblige procession organisers to deposit a guarantee to cover any damages. A measure that is not feasible, the unions immediately noted. The Cgil called it "improper and unconstitutional. Those who do not have the economic possibilities are deprived of the right to demonstrate?" For the Cisl, "one must never confuse those who sow chaos with those who organise demonstrations and democratic mobilisations, exercising a right guaranteed by the Constitution, on which no intimidation can burden".

'Government enemy of the people, the people relaunched. And the people relaunched'. Thus begins the document of the Collettivo Universitario Autonomo and the Kollettivo Studentesco Autonomo, student emanations of the Askatasuna social centre, regarding Saturday's national demonstration, in which there were violent clashes, in Turin, against the eviction. "We had promised it would be a popular demonstration and we think we have kept our promise,' they read. 'Turin showed how one can respond to the violence of the state by also managing to take the step forward of a proposal that can be pursued by many and many, in diversity of course, but with the opportunity to break the banks of impotence and immobility to follow a road that we do not yet know on which routes it will take us, but we know that whatever it has to offer us can only be better than what there is if we face it together.

"While some sections spread out to occupy the two intersections on the route, a large part of the demonstration then reached the permanent police garrison around Aska, responding strongly to the forced militarisation that is now the only method of the institutions through which to manage social crises," the collectives emphasise, referring to the riots. "It was hours of very intense clashes, the air unbreathable, the water cannons, the nervous police. But thousands of people resisted and returned to sender the arrogance of those who only want us scared and silent," they point out in the note. 'The Askatasuna is not just a building and Saturday's day was proof of that, we are only at the beginning of a path to walk together, for freedom and the possibility of living in a world worthy of those who inhabit it,' they conclude.