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From the Cdm yes to the new security package. Meloni: a tougher approach is needed

Also on the agenda is the legislative decree to transpose the European directive on pay transparency and equal pay for men and women

by Rome Editorial Staff

5 February 2026

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The Council of Ministers approved the security package: green light to the decree law and the bill. Yes from the meeting also to the decree law on the Bridge over the Strait of Messina, with urgent provisions on extraordinary commissioners and concessions. Also on the agenda was the legislative decree to implement the European directive on transparency in pay and equal pay between men and women.

Meloni: not spot measures, but a piece that restores freedom and security to citizens

"Today the Council of Ministers approved new security measures. They are not spot measures, but a further step in the strategy that this government has been pursuing since it took office". So said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media, listing the measures approved by the Council of Ministers with which "we continue to add pieces to a precise design: a State that does not turn its head the other way, that defends those who defend us and that restores security and freedom to citizens".

Meloni, tougher approach needed on security

Host of Dritto e rovescio, on Rete4'I don't think there is a strategy to prevent the government from being effective on security and then lash out, as the left sometimes seems to do. But there is a problem of wrong mentality, and a tougher approach is needed from all those who are involved in ensuring the security of citizens at every level'. Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after giving the example of a man arrested 'a few months ago in Acerra' thanks to 'a very effective measure made by the government on the Terra dei Fuochi', and then 'a few hours later he was free'. And again, speaking of the measure: 'It is not a criminal shield. Criminal shield is when whatever you do nothing happens to you, that's what the social centres have in Italy today'. With the new rule, 'there is simply no longer an obligation to enter you in the register of suspects when it is clear that you have defended yourself. It applies to everyone,' he added, 'not just the police'.

Meloni: double standards of certain judiciary makes security difficult

'I think' that there is 'a duplicity in certain parts of the judiciary and I think this makes it a little difficult to be effective in defending the security of citizens,' the premier added. In Turin, she said, 'we have two perpetrators released with mandatory signature, and one under house arrest. A few weeks ago I already recalled that another magistrate cancelled the Daspo order to the delinquents who had devastated the Milan station, because they claimed it was disproportionate, because if people devastate a station you cannot even tell them 'you cannot go back there', because it is disproportionate. On the other hand, a few days ago an officer shot a drug dealer who was pointing a gun at his face. Later it turned out that the gun was a blank," but "clearly the officer cannot know that. That officer is being investigated for voluntary manslaughter, while the gentleman who is under house arrest is being investigated for violence against a public official. But why, excuse me, is bringing a hammer from home and hammering people isn't attempted murder?".

Salvini: the League will bring bail to Parliament

In the security package "there is no bail, which continues to be close to my heart. The League will bring it to Parliament and I am convinced that a majority will be found'. This was said by deputy prime minister and League secretary Matteo Salvini on Otto e mezzo, on La 7.

Piantedosi: fruitful dialogue with Colle, preventive stop always so

In the security decree 'the provision of preventive detention is introduced. I specify that the interlocution with the Quirinal has always been very fruitful, most recently yesterday. There were right emphases but the text came out as it had been proposed from the beginning'. This was said by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi at a press conference at the end of the Council of Ministers.

Plantedosis: preventive detention is not liberticidal

Preventive detention 'is not a liberticidal measure, in many jurisdictions it is present, and there is the relationship with the judicial authority, which is informed that the person is accompanied to a police office and detained for up to two hours. If he then finds that the conditions are not met, he can order the release: this has always been the case in our formulation, we know the limits set by the constitution on the limitation of personal freedom,' the Minister of the Interior specified, explaining that the rule draws 'on a very pregnant hypothesis of prevention, on very important circumstantial conditions on the possibility that certain crimes may be committed during events, a bit like we have seen in recent days'.

Piantedosi: next week immigration bill with naval blockade

Piantedosi announced that 'next week there will be the evaluation of a broader package of immigration regulations, to support the entry into force of the new European immigration regulations by June. And there will also be what is journalistically called a naval blockade, i.e. the interdiction of territorial waters, with the possibility, where there are agreements with safe third countries, to transfer people to different places to carry out asylum procedures'.

Nordio: the new rule is not a criminal shield because it does not give impunity

The new rule introduced by the security decree 'is not a criminal shield, which instead means impunity: here there is no impunity for anyone, so it is an improper word'. Thus the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, at the press conference at the end of the Council meeting, on the new measure contained in the approved decree, which establishes a separate register for offences committed with 'cause of justification'. "We have introduced a principle that stems from a misunderstanding 50 years ago. When 50 years ago, the institute of the crime notice was introduced, which then became a guarantee notice. The institute that was born as a guarantee for the eventual suspect turned into a disgrace, an early condemnation, both from a media, professional and political point of view,' Nordio added, pointing out that the rule does not only concern officers but all citizens.

Nordio: we want to avoid the return of the Br

"We are trying, through prevention, to prevent those sad moments from happening again," said the Justice Minister referring to the regulations introduced with the security decree and the Red Brigades phenomenon. Nordio previously recalled the phenomenon of the Red Brigades in the years of lead, a phenomenon 'born precisely because insufficient attention, also on the part of the State, was paid to these forms of hateful aggression against the forces of law and order that had been neglected. We remember the expressions 'comrades who make mistakes' and 'self-styled Red Brigades''.

Nordio: who controls the judiciary? That's why there is reform

"Who controls the police? - said Nordio -. The judiciary controls it. And who controls the judiciary? There is no power without control' and that is why 'we are trying to introduce the new constitutional reform. Today the judiciary is controlled by itself and its currents, in the SCM and its disciplinary section, which is a domestic justice. With the insertion of the High Court, no longer subject to the bartering of currents, which instead constitute a domestic justice, there will be control attributed to the judiciary - independent and autonomous - but the control will also be on the judiciary',