(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 4 – The Senate on Wednesday gave the final green light to the government’s controversial security decree, approving it in a confidence vote with 109 yeas, 69 nays and one abstention.
Opposition parties say the wide-ranging package limits civil liberties and the right to protest, among other things, and there were several moments of tension in the Upper House before it was approved.
At one stage lawmakers from several opposition parties sat down in mass in the centre of the Upper House, causing the session to be suspended.
The decree clamps down on many forms of protest, making blocking traffic a crime and stiffening the punishment for people who soil or damage public works or monuments – acts of civil disobedience frequently used by climate protest groups like Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, UG).
The legislation creates a new crime of injuring police officers while in service, a measure aimed at giving greater protection to law enforcement, especially at demonstrations that turn violent, and if the actions are against strategic infrastructure such as the planned bridge across the Strait of Messina and the TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed rail line.
It also allocates money for the legal fees of police who end up under investigation in relation to their conduct while on the job.
The package makes it easier for the authorities to evict people who illegally occupy property and seeks to clamp down on the scamming of the elderly.
Penalties for jail riots and disturbances are raised too and there are measures clamping down on forms of passive resistance – such as sitting down or refusing to return to a cell – at migrant centres.
The package also clamps down on pregnant pickpockets who operate on subway lines in major cities. (ANSA).
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Opposition parties say the wide-ranging package limits civil liberties and the right to protest, among other things, and there were several moments of tension in the Upper House before it was approved.
At one stage lawmakers from several opposition parties sat down in mass in the centre of the Upper House, causing the session to be suspended.
The decree clamps down on many forms of protest, making blocking traffic a crime and stiffening the punishment for people who soil or damage public works or monuments – acts of civil disobedience frequently used by climate protest groups like Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, UG).
The legislation creates a new crime of injuring police officers while in service, a measure aimed at giving greater protection to law enforcement, especially at demonstrations that turn violent, and if the actions are against strategic infrastructure such as the planned bridge across the Strait of Messina and the TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed rail line.
It also allocates money for the legal fees of police who end up under investigation in relation to their conduct while on the job.
The package makes it easier for the authorities to evict people who illegally occupy property and seeks to clamp down on the scamming of the elderly.
Penalties for jail riots and disturbances are raised too and there are measures clamping down on forms of passive resistance – such as sitting down or refusing to return to a cell – at migrant centres.
The package also clamps down on pregnant pickpockets who operate on subway lines in major cities. (ANSA).
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