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.
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