Dl Sicurezza, the government relaxes the rule on knives: here are the ones that can be carried with justified reason

The aim is to speed up the vote on the changes desired by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. But the timetable has already jammed: over 1,200 amendments filed by the opposition are significantly slowing down the examination.

The amendment intervenes with changes described as 'limited and targeted'. On the one hand, it leaves intact the absolute ban on carrying the categories considered most insidious:
1) switchblades with a blade of at least five centimetres with a snap or spring opening;
2) butterfly knives with a sharp or pointed blade;
3) camouflaged tools, those hidden inside other objects or disguised as tools.

On the other hand, it displaces other instruments, which may only be carried if there is a reason, into a less rigid regime: handgrips with a single-edged blade, a sharp point, a length of five centimetres or more, equipped with a blade lock or capable of being opened with one hand; and instruments with a fixed, sharp or pointed blade, a length of more than eight centimetres.

For these cases, the absolute ban is not triggered, but the obligation to prove 'justified reason' remains.

In essence, the amendment broadens the area of blades coming out of the absolute ban and falling under the regime of "justified reason".

Other changes also touch the chapter on the sale of knives to minors under the age of 18, but without easing the squeeze. In the explanatory statement of the amendment, it is made clear that the 'more restrictive and rigorous discipline (...) aimed at preventing and combating more effectively the increasingly widespread and alarming phenomenon of carrying knives (...) especially by minors' remains 'firm.

In the meantime, the Senate's Fifth Budget Committee issued a 'non-hostile' opinion on the decree, but with conditions on the articles dedicated to competitions for the Police, Guardia di finanza, Carabinieri and Prison Police.

The opinion - which is binding - draws a precise boundary: competitions can be held, but administrations will have to ensure that the recruitment possibilities are monitored.

In other words, hiring only within the perimeter of available resources. And this is also, in all likelihood, one of the issues addressed yesterday at the coordination meeting at Palazzo Chigi, which was attended by the undersecretaries to the Prime Minister's Office Alfredo Mantovano and Giovanbattista Fazzolari, the Ministers of the Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti and of the Interior Piantedosi, the State Accountant General Daria Perrotta and the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Gaetano Caputi.

In addition to the Security Bill, the Immigration Bill - not yet stamped - and the Local Police Bill are also under close observation.