Deputy Premier, Foreign Minister and centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) leader AntonioTajani said Saturday that Interior Minister Mattei Piantedosimay assess individual responsibility for Friday's baton chargesby police in Florence and Pisa against pro-Palestiniansprotesters but the police as a whole "cannot be touched ".
Speaking after President Sergio Mattarella spoke out about thepolicing, Tajani said the police "are people who defend theState with low salaries, they aren't the children of the radicalchic".
He told an FI congress, to loud applause, that "responsibilityis personal and I say hands off the police".
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