The Senate of Italy has given the final guarantee to a controversial decree on security promoted by the Giorgia Meloni government and that raises a battery of new crimes and tightening of penalties in front of the occupation of housing or road cuts.
The measure, which had already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies at the end of last month, has received 109 votes in favor, 69 against and one abstention.
14 new crimes
It introduces 14 new crimes, including the illegal squatting of a private property, and a battery of aggravating circumstances.
Meloni has stood out after the approval that Italy gives “a decisive step to reinforce the protection of citizens, the most vulnerable groups and uniformed men and women.” He also stressed that families and “honest owners” are protected from “intolerable injustices” in case of illegal squatting.
“Legality and security are pillars of freedom. And we will continue defending them with determination“The Prime Minister has promised, whose party, brothers of Italy, governs in coalition with two other rights formations -the Italian League and Forza.
New types of terrorism crime
Among other measures, the law will involve a hardening of sanctions in case of riots in prisons, Housing, or civil disobedience actions, such as cutting roads, and introducing new types of terrorism’s crime.
Also Create the crime of arbitrary property of property, which will be punishable by two to seven years in jail, and the possibility of the judicial police to order the immediate release of the kupado property is expectedeven without court order, in the case of illegitimate offices.
One of the most controversial
One of the most controversial measures is that It suppresses the obligation to postpone the penalty for pregnant women and with children.
The law reinforces the criminal protection of the police and penalties for injuries, resistance and violence against public officials are increased and an aggravating circumstance is introduced if the act is committed against an agent of the Judicial Police or Public Security.
Besidesthe new rule is committed to sentences of up to five years in prison for those responsible for instigating revolts in Italian prisons.
It also introduces the possibility of equipping the police with body cameras to record the operational activity and financial assistance is introduced for legal expenses of up to 10,000 euros for agents involved in criminal procedures related to the service.
And the penalties are hardening for those who use minors in begging and for those who commit fraud and reinforce the tools to suppress fraud against older people, with the introduction of a specific hypothesis of aggravated fraud, with penalties of two to six years and a fine of between 700 and 3,000 euros.
