Legislation to safeguard officers necessary says Crosetto

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 12 - Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on Sunday called for new legislation to safeguard law enforcement officials in the performance of their duties.
    "We must imagine legislative interventions that safeguard even more our security forces in the performance of their duties", Crosetto wrote on X.
    "I don't understand how there can be people, political forces and various armchair supporters who try to use every occasion to put on the stand police forces and the armed forces, even though they only fulfilled their duty" only to "strengthen those attacking the State and weakening those who defend it". Crosetto then slammed the "brutality" of demonstrators who staged violent protests, in particular in Rome and Bologna, against the death of of Ramy Elgaml, the 19-year-old Italo Egyptian Milan resident who died on November 24 in a scooter accident while being chased by the Carabinieri police.
    "There can be no tolerance nor any justification for those who commit acts of violence against the State and law enforcement", he said of the riots in which at least eight police officers were injured and Bologna's synagogue was vandalized.
    On Friday, Crosetto said he had ordered the general command of the Carabinieri police to grant a solemn commendation to Carabinieri officer Luciano Masini who is under investigation for shooting and killing a man who attacked four people with a knife on December 31. (ANSA).