Not only military alongside the police force, with the powers of judicial police officers, to restore public order, but also authorization for the use of rubber bullets and dog units to disperse violent crowds and no less than six years in prison for those arrested in the act for "crimes against public order". While the government is busy finalizing the decree with new measures to contain and prevent street violence and disorder like those that occurred over the weekend in Milan, Futuro Nazionale proposes a draconian security tightening. And it does so with a bill on public order, first signed by Edoardo Ziello, illustrated in a press conference in the Chamber by General Roberto Vannacci himself, via video link with Brussels.
Vannacci: this violence is terrorism, from FnV strong fist
«Those who prepare attacks on the police with paramilitary actions bring terrorism to the streets. For us this is terrorism and for us the response must be a hard fist" declares Vannacci, who cites as examples of measures that his party intends to propose against the security "emergency" the introduction of financial penalties to compensate for the damage caused by violence, the strengthening of the police forces with greater powers, the protection of the law enforcement forces through "the real legal shield" and not that proposed by the "hyporight" and the revocation of citizenship for non-Italians who commit crimes.
«FnV will consider voting on the government's anti-violence measures if they are structural»
Vannacci, who says he is in favor of the preventive detention measure for minors involved in demonstrations, does not in any case close off the possibility of voting in favor of the measures that will be presented by the government. «We will see what the government will do and we will see the individual measures, especially the structural ones. We will evaluate and if, on the government's part, there are measures that come close to our proposals, we are also willing to vote for them. Let's hope they don't include things that we can't accept, otherwise it will be yet another placebo measure" he declares. And he adds: «In addition to the program, Futuro Nazionale is developing with the Security Department directed by the lawyer Giorgio Carta, a detailed multidimensional and feasible security plan, which will be launched in the next few days and which will represent our structured contribution to the problem».
The deployment of the army with judicial authority powers
The proposed law presented, composed of seven articles, responds to "the urgent need to guarantee the safety of citizens and the supreme interest of public order in the face of the regeneration of phenomena of organized violence during public demonstrations". Faced with "suitable indications" that during a demonstration or meeting in a public place "acts contrary to public order and security, violence, devastation or concrete threats to the security and safety of the public or of the police forces" may occur - we read in article 2 - the Prefect has the obligation to arrange for the participation and support of the Armed Forces with the Police Forces in operations to maintain and restore public order. The Armed Forces personnel employed in such operations are granted, for the duration and purposes of the specific service, the qualification and powers of judicial police and public security officer or agent".
Authorization to use rubber bullets
The same article also authorizes, in actions «functional to the dispersal, containment and neutralization of violent crowds and subjects who fail to comply with disbandment orders», the use of: «a) weapons and devices of physical coercion equipped with rubber bullets or non-lethal controlled impact ammunition; b) specialized dog units for public order service".
