The concern of the technical security managers, starting with the chief of police Franco Gabrielli, was promptly communicated to the policy makers, and the Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese immediately transferred it to the Prime Minister. By representing the actual risk of behavior or riot that it would be difficult to face; better therefore to prevent with concrete interventions, rather than repressing any crimes from economic crisis. The Civil Protection ordinance to finance, through the Municipalities, food solidarity and the emergency measures announced yesterday by Prime Minister Conte are the government’s first response to the danger that the social unrest triggered by the blockade of the country will degenerate into more alarming phenomena. I am concerned by the general situation that is emerging in the country – revealed Lamorgese in an interview with SkyTg24 -, citizens have primary needs that the state can only take on.
Illegal behavior will not be tolerated
For those guaranteed there are layoffs and other social safety nets, and we are moving to avoid the slowdowns caused by ordinary bureaucracy, but there is another part of Italian citizens who do not have a fixed job and who want to have objective findings in terms of resources, adds the minister. Primary needs and resources means money or other tools to buy food. When you arrive at the end of the day you must have the opportunity to feed your children, and we must take this into account, concludes Lamorgese, who trusts in the collaboration between the state, the world of volunteering and the so-called third sector. Assuring for, of course, those who sit at the Interior Ministry, that illegal behavior or that may have repercussions on public safety will not be tolerated.
The episodes
The concerns concern the most depressed areas and primarily the South
, where the underground economy (suddenly paralyzed by traffic bans) has allowed so far to live in multitudes of people and families. Population groups that have always supported each other with illegal work or gimmicks – from abusive car parkers to smuggler tobacconists, passing through a thousand other border line activities – that have not collected anything for three weeks. They are the unsecured which he spoke to a week ago Courier service the Minister for the South Giuseppe Provenzano, to whom must be added those who no longer even work legally, and who in the first three weeks of the blockade were able to count on paid holidays or other resources; from next month the situation may worsen for them too. For now, episodes such as those of those in Palermo who showed up at the supermarket checkout with full carts claiming not to pay for the goods can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and have been easily contained. There were no assaults or riots, and the police and carabinieri trucks that appeared here and there remained inactive. But once again the telematic market – constantly monitored by investigators, precisely in a preventive key – to arouse apprehension. There are those who send intimidating messages without showing themselves in the face but brandishing a gun, perhaps a toy, and the first complaints have already arrived from the telecommunications police. Sometimes instrumental proclamations have appeared (such as those of conspiracy theorists who deny the seriousness of the emergency and invite disobedience against the measures to contain the contagion), or simple outlets against the ruling class (insults to the mayors or to the prime minister accused of not worrying about citizens), which can function as a detonator. Triggering sparks which can cause fires that are difficult to contain, even more so if people in need or in a state of poverty were the protagonists. The feared manifestations of public disorder are more difficult to deal with when there are legitimate needs or demands at the base. And the mixture with the ambitions of the protest professionals can become explosive. In the undergrowth of social networks the signs of who blows on the burning embers of discomfort: organized groups of antagonists, fringes of this or that faction that aim to trigger phenomena similar to the French yellow vests. The goal is to prevent them from becoming fire.
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