After the events of Palermo and Caivano comes the Government crackdown on juvenile crime. The Council of Ministers has in fact approved a decree which tightens the penalties for crimes committed by minors, also making it easier for them to end up in prison.
The words of Premier Meloni on the Caivano decree
“I wanted to be here because I think that the work we brought to CDM today is made up of important rules on some subjects in which in the past the State preferred to deal with other things, gave the signal that on some issues it was better not to enter and face it because it was dangerous. I think today is a sign of one State that decides to put the face in complex and difficult to resolve matters” said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Il work to redevelop Caivano “it will last a few years with a regular presence of the government, I told the ministers that each of them must go to bring their own 'bricks'. We send a commissioner who can talk to all the players and together they do a job that will last a long time, said Meloni.
“The second lever we used is one crackdown on juvenile crime, all the events we are talking about involve minors. And the rules that we have approved are the result of a discussion started with the visit to Caivano" specified the prime minister.
“We need to tackle the issue of early school leaving with determination: we need to ensure compulsory schooling. No more minors who go around armed”, added the Prime Minister who then reiterated that those approved “are not repressive rules but prevention ones”. "We have allocated the first 30 million euros but don't think that the government considers them sufficient, all the resources needed to overcome this challenge will be allocated".
What's in the "Caivano decree" on juvenile crime
There are 14 articles that make up the decree "Containing urgent measures to combat youth discomfort, educational poverty and juvenile crime". The aim is to “combine repression of juvenile delinquency with re-educational courses”, explained Justice Minister Nordio during the post CDM press conference.
Based on what is expected, it will be easier for minors to end up in prison: the approved decree lowers the sentence threshold from 9 to 6 years which allows for the application of the measure of pre-trial detention.
Minister Nordio also specified that “we have taken action against parents and those exercising parental authority. Because the source of delinquency very often lies in the lack of civic sense of families". In the text. “the sanction against the parents who abandon their children and don't let them go to school. Previously this crime of absolute dispersion was punished with a Platonic sanction, we have elevated it to the rank of crime, with the penalty of imprisonment for up to 2 years. We believe that this directly helps the minor,” said Nordio.
There will be the transfer of over 18s to ordinary prisons only in the presence of very serious preconditions", said the Minister of Justice, explaining that it will happen if these young adults disturb the order of the institutes, prevent the activities of other prisoners, use violence and threats and make use of the state of subjection they have induced in other prisoners . The transfer will not be automatic "but subject to the authorization of the supervisory magistrate".
Interior Minister Piantedosi announced that the urban daspo will be extended to minors over 14 years of age. It is a question, explained the minister, “of the expulsion from some areas of the city for those responsible for behaviors that aggravate urban disorder. It will also be valid for minors over 14". Furthermore, “we also intervene on the other provision of the daspo for drug use, with the removal from frequenting certain places, universities, schools, public places, also expanding the range of crimes for the daspo, including crimes of simple possession of drugs. Measures to combat unrest in public places are also strengthened, the range of predicate offenses such as carrying a firearm, violence, resisting a public official is expanded, or if already the recipient of precautionary measures in prison, the penalty is increased for the 'arrest for carrying instruments capable of offending, increasing the contravention, and the penalty for carrying and misuse of bladed weapons, finally tightening towards drug dealing of minor entities for minors, always over 14 years old".
The Caivano law decree also introduces "an increase in the fine for minor drug dealing with the arrest of the minor in flagrante delicto”, added the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, also explaining that the institute ofwarning from the commissioner it is also extended to minors between the ages of 12 and 14 for crimes with a sentence of no less than 5 years".
What's not there: out the lowering of the age of imputability and the squeeze on porn and mobile sites
In the text, however, there is no lowering of theage for attributability (it was assumed that it could go down from 14 to 12 years). “No action was taken on the imputability of the minor – Nordio said – We have read articles in the press about criminal liability, in which there was talk of lowering the limit from 14 to 12 years. All of this would have been contrary to rationality and ethics. It wasn't done. Preventive warning criteria have been envisaged which have nothing to do with the imposition of the sentence”.
There was no space in the text for the squeeze onaccess of minors to porn sites which had been talked about so much in recent days. The rule desired by Minister Roccella was in fact excluded from the Legislative Decree. "When Minister Roccella spoke of the age of first access to pornographic sites, 6-7 years, I saw the faces of some mothers and mine too", said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, clarifying that this matter must be tackled with impact . And the government started with the parental control. Then we wonder about how to access the sites, "a matter on which I do not consider it right to intervene by decree but it is very important and on which the parliament must also intervene".
By decree it was the restriction on cell phones has also been eliminated. The version of the measure that landed on the Government's table provided for the extension to fourteen-year-olds of the oral warning from the Police Commissioner who, in the event that the young person was convicted - even if not definitively - could have prohibited the use of social media, the web, mobile phones and PCs. In the final version the measure is not there.
The Extraordinary Commissioner for Caivano
The law decree, called Caivano, "is inspired by the presence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and other ministers a week ago in that place after the terrible news episode that shocked Italy and intends identify an intervention model which will be valid immediately for Caivano and then, if the conditions are met, for other degraded areas of the country. It is a module that takes into consideration not only the scourge of juvenile crime, but also offering something positive and as an alternative to the street, to the drug store. Measures largely requested by magistrates and police forces that we met there, from Don Patriciello to others”, said Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano, at a press conference.
Indeed, among the main innovations that emerged today is the introduction of an Extraordinary Commissioner, Fabio Ciciliano, for Caivano, the Neapolitan town at the center of one of the most heinous news events of recent weeks. Ciciliano will manage the 30 million euros that the decree law allocates to the intervention plan aimed at tackling the situations of degradation, social vulnerability and youth hardship present in the area.
“This law decree – said Mantovano – intends to identify an intervention model that will be valid immediately for Caivano and then, at subsequent deadlines, for the same territory”, but “also for other particularly degraded areas”, provided that they occur” The conditions".
The Euro 5 blockade in Piedmont has been postponed
The Council of Ministers has approved the decree that stops the blockade of Euro 5 vehicles in Piedmont. “The most important objective to be achieved, in the shortest possible time, was to avoid the blockage of Euro5 diesel vehicles in Piedmont starting from 15th September. We succeeded but the solution was not simple and the result was by no means obvious” commented the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. The decree-law postpones the ban on Euro1 diesel cars in 2024 municipalities in Piedmont to 5 October 76.
Green light to the decree for the South and to the funds for flooded Emilia Romagna
The Council of Ministers gave the go-ahead also approved the Southern decree which, among other things, establishes the Zes unique for the South and allocates 45 million for Lampedusa. The provision includes incentives for the development of the South.
Lastly, the Government has allocated 5.395.000 euros for carrying out the necessary interventions after the floods of autumn last year in Emilia Romagna. The provision concerns in particular the territory of the Municipalities of Comacchio, Goro and Codigoro, in the province of Ferrara, of Cesenatico, Gatteo and Savignano sul Rubicone in the province of Forlì-Cesena and in the Municipality of Ravenna. “This is – explained the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies Nello Musumeci – an additional intervention compared to the allocation of over 16 million (exactly 16.173.000) euros already made, with the resolution of 2 February; the sum will be drawn from the National Civil Protection Emergency Fund and will be used to carry out rescue and assistance activities for the affected population and for the most urgent interventions".
