
Defense Minister Guido Crosetto declared on
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Defense Minister Guido Crosetto commented on X on the possible use of soldiers in support of the police, underlining the need for specific rules for limited use in time.
It is easy to announce additional soldiers without even addressing the problem of what they will have to do and how they will be able to do it. For it to make sense, we need the Council of Ministers to approve regulations tomorrow that allow them to be able to act like the police forces, only in the time necessary to provide support to the Carabinieri, Police and Financial Police (i.e. 3 months), in the face of phenomena like those we have witnessed. Thus the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, on X.

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Two Saudi National Guard officers died in the crash of an AH-6i helicopter in Najran, near the border with Yemen. The coalition attributes the crash to a technical failure, denying the Houthi claim of a shoot-down.