Accelerate the security bill, which contains provisions to protect law enforcement officers. This was asked yesterday during question time in the Chamber of Deputies by the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi. The text is currently being examined by the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Part of the measure is dedicated, Piantedosi explained, precisely “to the protection of police operators during the performance of their duties”. Measures, especially the latter, “which I strongly wanted and which I believe can no longer be postponed, as yesterday’s events in Turin demonstrate”. The reference is to the clashes that took place in the Piedmontese capital between students and the police. «We owe it», Piantedosi continued, «to the women and men in uniform who, to fulfill their duties and to guarantee our rights, are exposed daily to aggression, threats and violence carried out by those who have the sole objective of not respecting the laws and causing disorder.”
The minister reported that he had spoken with the majority groups to urge the calendaring of the bill, which is now in the first committee of the House. «I trust», he said, «that this package of regulatory measures, enriched by parliamentary discussion, can quickly continue its process and provide those answers in terms of security to the citizens who await them, and to the Police Forces who are entrusted with the task of protecting them.” The measure, the minister recalled, contains “innovations aimed at increasing the levels of safety in urban contexts, meeting specific protection needs strongly felt by citizens”. Among these, he recalled the “new type of crime of arbitrary occupation of those properties intended for the owner’s domicile, which is accompanied by a specific and accelerated procedure for reinstatement in possession of the occupied property”. He then cited “the measures to strengthen the instruments of deterrence and repression of the growing phenomenon of fraud on the elderly, as well as the extension of the so-called urban Daspo to subjects burdened by criminal records for crimes against the person or against property”. He then responded to a question from Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra on the case of the Mar Ionio ship, recalling that «the reconstruction of the facts relating to the rescue operations involving the Libyan patrol boat Fezzan and the private ship Mare Jonio, provided by me last 11 April in the Senate, was carried out on the basis of official reports from the competent international and Italian authorities”. He then added that «on the basis of the conduct of the Mare Jonio ship» the sanctions provided for by legislative decree number 1 of 2023 were applied by the competent authorities and the consequent detention of the vessel which, today’s news (yesterday ed.), resisted the judicial request for suspension proposed by the private vessel”.
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In fact, yesterday’s news came that the Ragusa court rejected the ship’s owners’ appeal against the administrative detention of the vessel because, as the investigating judge Claudio Maggioni wrote, «the deduced periculum profiles by the appellants in support of the precautionary request”, the Mare Jonio “is not authorized to provide a lifeguard service” and there are no sufficient reasons to exclude the “recurrence of the violation”.
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