Italian Jesuits, 'you cannot respond to young people with repression'

"Stopping the ongoing violence is necessary, but we cannot respond to the widespread malaise with more violence, multiplying political silences or tightening repressive interventions through repeated decrees that promise security in the media, renouncing to reason in the public debate on the causes of social malaise and on the possible actions to provide answers". Thus the Italian Jesuit magazine 'Aggiornamenti Sociali'. Vandalism must be condemned but "we should ask ourselves how credible it is to do so" given that "the justification of resorting to force, regardless of laws and limits to one's power" prevails.