The Council of Ministers, according to what is learned, has appointed Lamberto Giannini the new head of the police.
"I congratulate Prefect Lamberto Giannini who is now the new Chief of Police - Director General of Public Security".
Thus the Minister of the Interior
Luciana Lamorgese
.
The appointment, he added, "was approved by the CDM on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior by virtue of a curriculum of excellence and an appreciation of personal and professional qualities shared at all institutional levels, which make it even more solid guarantee for citizens and police forces ".
Lega leader
Matteo Salvini
sent a message of congratulations and good work to the new police chief, prefect Lamberto Giannini.
Giannini, born in Rome on January 29, 1964, after graduating in Law at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, entered the roles of the State Police in 1989 by attending the 74th course for Deputy Commissioners at the Istituto Superiore di Police.
For over 25 years he worked as an investigator in the world of
counter-terrorism, leading, in chronological order, the Digos of the Rome Police Headquarters, the Central Antiterrorism Service and the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, of which he was director from 1 October 2016 to 23 December 2020. From 2 January 2021 he held the position of head of the Secretariat of the Department of Public Security.
As Chief of Police he
succeeds the Prefect Franco Gabrielli with whom he worked shoulder to shoulder during important investigations against domestic and international terrorism.
Among the most important operations carried out by the prefect Giannini we remember: the arrests of terrorists belonging to the group of the New Red Brigades and that, between the end of the 90s and the beginning of 2000, with the D'Antona murders, and Biagi and of the policeman Emanuele Petri, they had resumed the armed struggle in Italy, bringing to mind the bloody years of lead;
the dismantling of a neo-brigade cell which had carried out a serious bomb attack against Italian soldiers and was planning to carry out an attack against the G8 summit scheduled for La Maddalena;
the arrest in 2005 in Rome of one of the terrorists who, in July of that year, had tried to blow himself up, together with other accomplices, in the London underground.