"Unfortunately, yesterday during public order services in Florence and Pisa our operators implemented initiatives that will have to be analyzed individually and verified with severity and transparency".
Thus the police chief, Vittorio Pisani, interviewed this evening on Tg1.
"The decisions that are adopted at local level on public order services - Pisani specified - are not determined by political choices. The State Police is the police of a democratic country and we have the duty to guarantee, first and foremost, the expression of dissent".
Pisani underlined that "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has affected the management of public order in terms of intensity for the use of police force personnel.
Not in all European countries demonstrations are authorized, while in Italy no demonstration has ever been banned, not even the most radical and extreme ones. The ideological or political motivations of the demonstrators are treated by the police - he assured - always with the utmost neutrality".
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