After the clashes and looting in Milan, the Council of Ministers aims to approve a new security decree: among the possible measures, preventive detention for up to 24 hours even for minors, arrest deferred within 48 hours and the deployment of 500 soldiers in Milan, with police powers for a period of three months.
After him clashes and looting in Milan and the riots in various Italian cities, the government led by Giorgia Meloni is considering adopting a new Safety Decree: it’s about the sixth provision of this type adopted by the executive, considering the rave decree, the Cutro decree, the Caivano decree and the last two on safety.
The Council of Ministers, convened for today 20 October at 5.30pmwill then take care of drafting a law decree for strengthen law enforcement tools to the street riots And strengthen judicial instruments and police. They were in the Lombard capital 500 soldiers deployed to guard the city, although it is not yet clear how they will be used.
In a post on X, the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto confirmed that, in relation to the military, «the problem of What they will have to do and how they will be able to do it.” Again according to the Minister, the objective of the Council of Ministers would be to allow i military can act like the police force for the next ones 3 months to provide support to the Carabinieri, Police and Financial Police.
By law, in fact, the military can identify people and carry out the immediate search of people and means to prevent or impede behavior that may endanger people or places under surveillance. The Army soldiers, however, they do not have judicial police functions And Not they can therefore carry out investigations autonomous or carry out arrests in the exercise of these functions. However, they can intervene in the event of a flagrant offence.
In any case, some measures which will be discussed for the new Security Decree have already been anticipated. In addition to the temporary expansion of the army’s functions, there would also be:
- THE’extension of the preventive stop until 24 hours also for minors;
- The expansion of crime of aggravated damage;
- The prohibition on aggregation for people considered dangerous to public order;
- The possibility of deferred arrest within 48 hours for those who commit group damage.
According to some rumours, it could also be included among the measures the obligation For social platform providers to communicate any useful information to the judicial police for identify messages relating to episodes of violence, for example, reporting the use of violent hashtags. It must be said, in fact, that the vandalism episodes that occurred over the weekend in Milan demonstrated that preventive investigation tools used by intelligence agencies are in fact backward, having failed to intercept new violent movements that arise spontaneously on social media in a timely manner.
Finally, there would seem to be some on the table tightening of rules on roadblocks: Also today, 20 October, the meeting between the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, and the national trade associations and representatives of spontaneous mobilizations should take place in Milan, to discuss possible measures to support the hauliers sector which has been striking for days in Southern Italy.
Meanwhile, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella declared that «the full solidarity of the national community goes to the police forces – in particular to the almost 200 of them injured in recent days», underlining that «we need an intelligent and in-depth analysis and one must be developed careful vigilance capable of countering violence that seems to explode unexpectedly from unprecedented subjects.”
