In the last few hours, the technical solutions considered to be the best have been studied and the provision could include some measures already contained in the security bill approved by the Council of Ministers in July and now being examined by the Senate. Among these, the extension of preventive detention to minors and with a duration beyond 12 hours, the deferred arrest for those responsible for causing damage to groups and the ban on aggregation for people deemed dangerous for public order. Alongside this, the aim would be to strengthen the Safe Roads operation. In particular for Milan, the executive is preparing to strengthen the deployment with another 500 soldiers. On
"From words to deeds!", meanwhile, rejoiced the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini who spoke of a "victory for the League" as did the two Northern League undersecretaries Nicola Molteni (for the Interior) and Andrea Ostellari (for Justice) who announced some of the contents of the decree: "The extension of preventive detention up to 24 hours", "the strengthening of prevention measures, starting from the oral warning under the jurisdiction of the police commissioner" but also "the introduction of the crime of aggravated damage" and "mandatory arrest for crimes of devastation during demonstrations, with the possibility of deferred arrest within 48 hours".
We then want to give a signal of support to the police forces: in the next maneuver we aim to increase resources by allocating part of the 7.2 billion extra trade deficit granted by Europe for defense to the security sector. It means more hiring, equipment and interventions on social security.
"The events in Milan and other parts of Italy are profoundly different from those experienced in other eras, and are the result of what I call hybrid warfare, which someone is bringing to our nations using unconventional tools called TikTok, social media, YouTube without the West realizing it and reacting in some way", clarified meanwhile the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, who, speaking at the Defense procurement forum in Rome, observed: "Three out of ten young people participated in those demonstrations we are not talking about maranza, about second generation Italians. Six out of ten share them, it is because in recent years they have undergone counter-education somewhere, not from family or school, which has given them values, ambitions, a vision of the world and points of reference that are in conflict with the society in which we live and with democratic rules".
"We are fighting in a hybrid war - continued the minister - which none of us has ever fought before and which we are suffering. My greatest concern today is the ability that some Nations have, after having studied the minds of our young people with algorithms, to know much better than us how to influence them. Because when you have had to deal with content that interests you, with the reactions to that content, you have collected data for years and years, you have seen the reactions and with artificial intelligence you have the possibility of studying them perhaps by increasing the analysis capabilities through quantum technologies, you have a very powerful weapon: that of instilling in people's minds ways of thinking that they believe to be theirs but which derive from very sophisticated manipulation, and when I see things like those in Milan my concern increases". "It is time - Crosetto hoped - that these issues be addressed also from an industrial and technological point of view because they need answers as much as a missile network, an anti-drone network, the naval, land or air capacity of a Nation. These capabilities do not hit physical targets but hit something deeper".
