Mattarella signed the security decree: more protection on trains and sporting events

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, signed the security decree. This was announced at the Quirinale.

If there is one point in which the branded text of the Dl Sicurezza changes step with respect to the first draft, it is that of injuries. We are not talking about a cosmetic touch-up: the vignette broadens the perimeter of protection and brings in two worlds that have become symbolic in the public debate. On the one hand, trains and the safety of personnel on board. On the other, sport, with an explicit reference to referees and subjects of sporting events. It is a choice that shifts the axis: from 'only' the school/health theme to a broader picture of the aggressions that take place in the places of everyday life - classrooms, stations, stadiums.

The message is clear even to non-technicians: in stamping the decree, it tries to say 'these categories do not remain uncovered'. And it does so precisely where public opinion is most sensitive: when an attack is no longer an isolated incident, but a repeated problem, in high-tension contexts.

The text will be published in the Official Gazette this evening and then go to the Senate to begin conversion procedures.

In the first draft, the framework on injuries was mainly centred on teaching staff and school managers (with references, under the heading, also to health and auxiliary activities). The perimeter was therefore 'traditional': school as a hot front, and a frame that also evoked health personnel.