A new "security package", claimed "with pride" by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which introduces a series of significant initiatives to improve the safety of citizens and Law Enforcement, and which "represents a further step forward in strengthening the security system in Italian cities", as Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi explained at a press conference. The measures approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers provide, among other things, greater protection for the Police Forces, (who will be able to walk around with a weapon even if off duty, Piantedosi pointed out) and the fight against squatting: "lightning" procedures are provided for the liberation of properties and the introduction of a new crime that provides for imprisonment from 2 to 7 years against squatters. However, this measure should only apply to individual apartments. Then comes a crackdown on scams committed against the elderly and the most fragile, with an increase in the prison sentence from 2 to 6 years for the crime of aggravated fraud, and specific measures against pickpocketing and against those who employ minors in begging, particularly in subways and stations: in this regard, the suspension of the sentence for pregnant women is changed from mandatory to optional, "to avoid the phenomenon of using the condition of motherhood as an exemption in case of commission of a crime". A new offense is then introduced to punish those who participate in and/or organize prison riots in CPRs, punished with a maximum of 6 months. Finally, it passes the crackdown on roadblocks, "phenomena that are multiplying" in particular due to the actions of climate activists, "and that create enormous inconvenience to citizens, towards those who prevent free movement on ordinary roads, obstructing them with their bodies".
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