PRESS RELEASE 20 JUNE 2024
Bologna, Fsp Police: “Critical issues in the management of hostile crowds, this is what our bill is for, more severe penalties and the obligation to maintain distance”
“What happened today in Bologna can only be described with the word madness. Policemen who have to intervene to quell an angry crowd at a public tree cutting site and who emerge with 8 injured. It’s almost surreal, but instead it’s the very sad reality of a country in which attacking operators in uniform is considered absolute normality. With each passing day it is increasingly clear how indispensable what we have requested with our bill is: more severe penalties for those who attack representatives of the State, equivalent to those provided for categories that have the same role, and above all the obligation to keep a distance . Just send the cops out into the street to get beaten up, and then tell them they were good. Enough. Uniformed operators must not be touched.”
Thus Valter Mazzetti, General Secretary of the FSP State Police, after the difficult demonstration in Bologna against the cutting of trees inside the Don Bosco park, where work on the tram construction site continues. Among other things, the protesters threw objects at the officers, including large branches and sticks, and also attempted to impede the work of a police squad. 8 members of the Mobile Unit were injured.
“Regarding the clashes in Bologna – Gianni Pollastri, National Secretary of the FSP raises the alarm – we find a very important problem in the technical management of hostile crowds. In fact, by now containment with shields does not allow either to quell the violence or to contain the physical damage to the operators: we have gone from a strategy that tended to disperse hostile crowds to a strategy that allows contact with the aggressive demonstrators with the use of shields as a response tool. But it is clear that a policeman has limited resistance compared to six people huddled together pushing on his shield and in the end he becomes the weakest element in the clash”.
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