According to what we understand, the summit on public order convened yesterday by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in light of the street riots of recent days is underway at Palazzo Chigi. Participating are the deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini (via video link) and Antonio Tajani, the ministers Matteo Piantedosi (Interior), Guido Crosetto (Defence), Francesco Lollobrigida (Agriculture), the undersecretaries to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano and Giovanbattista Fazzolari, the heads of the Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza, and those of Intelligence. Then, in the late afternoon or evening, another summit is expected, on the maneuver, with Meloni and the other majority leaders and the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti.
Meloni's decision to convene the public order summit came in the same minutes in which swarms of children gave rise to a new wave of violence in the heart of Milan, after a series of confrontations with Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani in which strong concerns were shared. The Prime Minister called the meeting to take stock of the management of the squares, analyze the Intelligence reports on a phenomenon still to be understood and, she anticipated, to "evaluate further tools against those who exploit legitimate demonstrations to sow violence and chaos".
In particular, we are thinking about regulations regarding minors, with the awareness of the essential comparison with the Quirinale on similar issues. The suggestion, it is said in the centre-right, is that of an intervention along the lines of the Caivano decree. And FI suggests convening a meeting of the Council of Ministers in the Lombardy capital, "as a signal of the presence of the State and of closeness and solidarity to the citizens of Milan and to the unjustly damaged merchants". An idea still to be explored at the top levels of the executive.
The summit should precede or follow the one on the maneuver scheduled for around 12.30. In presence or by video connection, at the table with Meloni there should be the leaders of the Services and Law Enforcement, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi (who in the last few hours had a meeting with the Chief of Police and the top executives of the Interior Ministry on the unrest in Milan), the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto and the two deputy prime ministers. Salvini already indicates a solution: translating into a decree some of the measures contained in the security bill passed by the government in mid-July and under consideration in the Senate.
A crackdown had already arrived in February, after the chaos at the Askatasuna parade, with the preventive arrest. A measure that according to the opposition did not work. And which Salvini wants to extend to minors, as provided for by the bill in the Senate, which also contains ex officio prosecution for injuries to a public official and imprisonment of up to 5 years, with a fine of up to 15 thousand euros, for group damage. The Northern League leader also mentions the ban on aggregation for those responsible for group violence and the introduction of the crime of group damage, with the possibility of resorting to deferred arrest.
Salvini, who always has his sights set on returning to the Ministry of the Interior after the vote (it is "a precondition for any future Government", clarifies his most loyal Claudio Borghi), will insist on the "anti-maranza rule" and on the restrictions for citizenship for those who commit serious crimes in a press conference tomorrow in Milan. And he calls for "greater freedom of action, in compliance with the codes, for the police, on the power of water cannons and the taser", raising bail for the organizers of the demonstrations, as well as "the strengthening of safe streets".
FdI turns to the opposition to ask for the signing of a bill, born after the No Tav riots in Val Susa, "which extends the crime of criminal association to fascists who organize themselves, even occasionally or via the web, to transform the marches into urban guerrilla warfare". At the end of a hectic Sunday, FI also took stock of the situation in a meeting called by Tajani. A confrontation in which the concern emerged that the phenomenon of urban guerrilla warfare could spread. As well as a series of requests: the strengthening of Safe Streets, the hiring of new security force personnel and "address with the utmost firmness the issue of the involvement of minors in riots". For the Azzurri "it is necessary to equip the police with the regulatory and regulatory tools to proceed with the arrest of minors, especially in cases of devastation and looting, and to speed up the legislative process of the rules that make minors between 14 and 17 years of age more easily attributable".
Qualified sources assure that the examination of draft decrees is not currently planned. But the hypotheses will be put on the table at Palazzo Chigi. If it is decided to proceed with an emergency measure, it cannot be excluded that it will land in the next Council of Ministers, scheduled for Friday. It is filtering through executive circles that evaluations are also underway at this time on the management of the squares. And some bad mood would have emerged in Milan.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, as some majority sources confide, in the parliamentarians' internal chats there are not only comments on the violence and reasoning on the proposals.
Some centre-right exponents cynically observe that the wave of unrest "may be worth a couple of points in the polls".
Renzi: 'Meloni and Piantedosi don't stop the Maranza, we need a new minister'
"What we saw in Milan with kids, often Maranza, who attack police vans, hit police officers, smash shop windows to steal, even vandalize bookshops has nothing to do with the high cost of living. It's pure delinquency, it's a crime without justification. Saying clear and clear words against violence is a priority and we did it immediately, from the first moment. When in May 2015 we were in government and the black blocs attacked Milan on on the first day of the Expo, we called together the entire civil community to clean up the city and put a stop to the violence of the hooligans. The entire civil community stands together against the violent, without distinction of party. IV leader Matteo Renzi writes this in his enews.
"In this sense, the attitude of Prime Minister Meloni and Minister Piantedosi who attack the opposition without explaining why they failed to block the Maranza is unbearable. I explained it yesterday in this post. The task of the Interior Ministry is not to carry out sociological analyses: the Minister's task is to guarantee law and order. Piantedosi has not succeeded and it is not like he can blame the left for his own failures. Just as there is no point in making other laws if the Government is unable to implement even the laws that we have Come on: we don't need to change the law again, we need to apply the law. And we don't need a new decree, we need a new minister. Because since Meloni and Piantedosi have been here, there has been less security: all over the world, those who govern take their responsibilities. In our country, those who govern blame the opposition.
"Is there a high cost of living emergency? Yes. The protests we are witnessing in the South, very different from the violence in Milan, remind us that between diesel, inflation and mortgages the situation of the middle class has become dramatic. We at Italia Viva were even mocked when we launched this flyer, more than a year ago: Giorgia, how much are you costing us?. They told us that that was not the priority and they told us that nothing was true, not even when I asked Giorgia Meloni a Question Time on the specific point. Again today they tell us about a country in which wages - according to them - are growing more than wages. It is false. There is a gigantic social emergency that the Government is not grasping", writes the leader of IV.
