At Palazzo Chigi the meeting between the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the law enforcement unions on the government's ongoing legislative initiatives
regarding the regulation, organization and functioning of the police forces with territorial control functions.
"There is a climate that I don't like and worries me, and for which I feel responsible because part of this climate depends on the fact that there is a need to attack myself and this government
. It worries me in a particular year, we have
the presidency of the G7
will be a very challenging year, which affects our credibility on the international level and I see tones that remind me of very difficult years for our nation".
This is one of the arguments, according to what ANSA understands, expressed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the meeting with the police unions.
For the executive, in addition to the Prime Minister, the meeting was also attended by the Vice President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, and the Undersecretary of Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovano.
Taking part in the meeting are representatives of Siulp, Sap, Siap, Coisp-Mosap Federation, Fsp State Police ES-LS-Consap-MP, Silp Cgil, Cocer Arma Carabinieri, Cocer Guardia di Finanza.
"I would like to remember, here, that in 97% of the demonstrations that have taken place in recent months there have been no critical issues -
the Prime Minister said, as far as we know, at the meeting -. Only in 3% critical issues were found in some cases and this demonstrates the excellent management of public order and your ability to protect sensitive sites. These are facts that are right to reiterate and underline, because I believe the systematic campaign of denigration you are engaging in is unjust been subjected."
"Minister Piantedosi, in Parliament, and the Chief of Police, have ensured the careful verification of what happened in Pisa - explained, we learn, Meloni -, and full collaboration with the judicial authority to highlight errors or abuses Without prejudice to these findings, and respecting their autonomy, the purpose of this meeting of ours is to look at the present and the future, and therefore to receive proposals from you on the contribution that the Government and, for the part of the government's initiative, the Parliament can give today to improve the management of public order. We want to understand what can be done to better manage public order."
We must "counter a mentality that wants to instill in younger people" the idea that "there are rules that cannot be respected, as some opinion makers say", which "often leads to a dead end".
This is one of the arguments, according to what ANSA understands, expressed by the Prime Minister in the meeting with the police unions, speaking of "bad teachings for the younger ones".
The Prime Minister noted that international crises "will lead to an increase in protests" and that the government wants to "continue to guarantee the rights to demonstrate but in compliance with the rules" and therefore "everyone's good will is needed".
PS unions, 'Daspo to violent demonstrators, government opens', students rise up
The Daspo also applies to perpetrators of violent acts during demonstrations, similar to that applied to fans
.
This is the
proposal
- as far as we know -
put on the table today at Palazzo Chigi by the police unions
during the meeting with Meloni and some ministers.
According to the representatives of the organizations, the Government was willing to evaluate the measure.
"
The government's proposal to apply a ban on violent demonstrators is shameful ": Bianca Chiesa, national coordinator of
the Students' Union,
told ANSA
.
The proposal, he explains, comes "following a series of episodes which demonstrate that it is not the students who are violent but the police. For years we have been denouncing the disproportionate and exaggerated violence of the police against the peaceful demonstrators who descend on square exercising their rights. Instead, identification codes are needed on the uniforms and helmets of the police while the government tightens repressive measures; we think we need to intervene in the opposite direction, ensuring that the country is a training ground for democracy in which people can demonstrate freely ".
Siap, imminent discussion on the contract for law enforcement agencies
"It was a very important meeting, because we didn't just talk about money and the imminent opening" of the table on the "contract for policemen, carabinieri and financiers of the military world, we talked about the rights and freedoms to demonstrate, which they must be guaranteed to everyone but in the spirit of article 17 paragraph 2 of the constitution".
Thus Giuseppe Tiani, secretary of Siap, at the end of the meeting between the government and the police unions.
"The controversies that are going through the country on the right to demonstrate, which has never been banned, worry both the police unions and the government itself", he added.
"There was no discussion about the identification code, on which we do not give up the discussion
. We are willing to talk about it, but there cannot be an equal relationship between those who guarantee all citizens and those who demonstrate in a violent manner. We are available to discuss it, but we are not these are the social and political conditions at the moment to start a discussion on identification codes between the police and the carabinieri, the Finance department already has it, and the service orders are clear".
Coisp in Meloni, penalties to discourage violent people in demonstrations
"We greatly appreciated the approval in the Council of Ministers, last November 16, of three bills which intervene in the field of prevention and combating terrorism and organized crime, seized and confiscated assets, police checks and urban security, which introduce rules to protect law enforcement personnel
. In light of what happened in Florence, Pisa, Turin and many other cities in recent days,
we believe it is necessary to intervene further for real protection for police officers and law enforcement personnel of the Order who daily find themselves facing the 'controlled exuberance' of those who do not understand that dissent can and must be expressed in compliance with the laws".
Thus the general secretary of the Coisp Police union, Domenico Pianese,
who delivered a letter to Prime Minister Meloni and to Interior Minister Piantedosi on the occasion of the meeting with the Police unions at Palazzo Chigi.
"We need, today more than ever - explained Pianese - penalties that are able to discourage those who, in demonstrations, gather with the intention of attacking those who are responsible for guaranteeing public order. We therefore ask that the sanctions provided for offenses committed during sporting events are further increased, that it is made impossible to assert exemptions and mitigating circumstances for all crimes committed against us and that it is established that failure to give notice of a public event will result in significant punishments if it is given anyway course at the event itself".
"We also ask - he added - that there be administrative sanctions for all participants, adults and minors, and not just for the promoters or for those who speak. The idea that it is possible to attack, threaten and offend someone can no longer pass policeman without there being any consequences! We do not call for impunity, but neither can impunity be allowed to those who attack, injure and offend us. We have also asked - he concluded - for legal protection for members of the Police Force subjected to criminal proceedings, the payment of the extraordinary excess arrears from June 2022, the opening of the contract and the dedicated social security".
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