A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #459: The new "Security" decree: fascism returns with a bang to the Constitution (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Late on the evening of Friday, April 11, the already shaky Italian 
constitution is painted with another fascist black page, it is the new 
"security" decree, the decree of April 11, 2025 n.48, which came into 
force on April 12 through its publication on the Official Journal 
website. There are still 60 days before it is definitively approved by 
the Chamber and Senate but the attitude of this government is clear, the 
Constitution must be filled with fascist laws with kicks, punches and 
coups. ---- This is yet another restriction of the rights that are 
regularly taken away from us through coups, bureaucratic fascism and 
political games of propaganda and ideology, aimed at penalizing always 
and only the same people with new restrictions, aggravating 
circumstances and sanctions. Since its first day, this government has 
inserted about 60 new crimes arriving at 500 more years of prison in the 
Criminal Code. This decree hits hard those who in this necro-capitalist 
society continue to be pushed to the margins because they do not have 
the same opportunities as others, or because they do not submit to the 
logic of death and oppression of the market that sees in people only 
consumers and in territories only potential goods to exploit and squeeze 
for the bank account of the usual 1%. With this umpteenth law the State 
openly shows its only interests, its own security and perpetual 
existence by striking in particular the people who do not fall into 
line, through control, punishment and propaganda creating consensus with 
terror.

This is an "ad personam" law but not one of those we saw in the 
Berlusconi years in favor of the politician of the moment or the sister 
or father of this or that politician, no, in this case it is a law that 
the neo-fascist government has designed to target certain people and 
categories (prisoners, detained mothers, migrants, squatters, activists, 
those who "beg") while at the same time the power of the armed wing of 
the State, the police and the secret services, increases in a 
disproportionate and terrorist way.

Having understood that the controversial DDL1236 (formerly 1660) would 
never have obtained the results and consensus hoped for in parliament, 
also for economic reasons, already openly contested by the OSCE 
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the Council of 
Europe and also the UN, with a real political coup worthy of nostalgic 
fascists, this government, with the approval of Mattarella, passes a 
decree-law (emergency instrument) avoiding democratic discussion in 
parliament. A liberticidal decree that stinks of semi-martial law in a 
pre-war context that transforms protest into a crime and dissent into a 
crime. As soon as it came into force, the United Nations wrote again to 
the Italian government saying they were <<alarmed>>.

Of course, this further form of repression against those who oppose 
exploitation, the dissipation of fundamental values such as freedom, 
empathy, the right to protest, human dignity was an urgent need that 
could not be postponed. And the mafiosi? The corrupt? the scammers? The 
inhumanely overcrowded prisons and the suicides inside them? The high 
cost of living? Italy that has become a large, scattered hotel for 
tourists? The 200,000 young people who emigrate every year with a 20% 
increase in 2024 alone? Nothing!

The national network against the security bill, which had called for 
demonstrations in Rome on April 4, commented: "From now on, Italy is a 
less democratic country, ... where the rights of the last are a problem 
of judicial order and not social".

Discussing all the provisions of this decree is outside the intention of 
this article and we do not want to poison our readers too much, to whom 
we recommend a careful reading of this decree, perhaps in the company of 
a light joint, actually no, that is now illegal ... art. 18 of this 
decree. Try with malox or a herbal tea until they are allowed. Below we 
report just some of the absurdities:

In this decree There are about 13 articles from 19 to 31 that only talk 
about further protections and shields, including fiscal ones, for the 
police (the order of the State), including the optional use (i.e., at 
convenience) of the bodycam, and also the possibility for officers to 
carry weapons, even without a license, off duty (Art. 28), always to 
make the community safer... Clearly nothing about identification codes 
on uniforms, an important issue also for Amnesty International which in 
2022 had collected 155,000 signatures to request them in line with 
international standards. Article 14 brings the roadblock (adding the 
railway) from an administrative offense to a criminal offense. Articles 
26 and 27 and from 34 to 38 further exacerbate the situation in prisons 
and CPRs, also leading those who carry out non-violent forms of protest 
to risk further convictions.
But of this new weapon of the Penal Code (the Legislative Decree of 11 
April 2025) two fundamental aspects are evident beyond the 
propagandistic ones and the "security" of the government.

The first: there is an indissoluble link between the escalation of war 
and the increase in repression here as elsewhere. As already highlighted 
in our special on prisons in the March 2025 issue, dissidents, 
antagonists and prisoners have always been considered as the internal 
enemy to be destroyed, and for the State there is no difference between 
the external enemy and the internal one, indeed in some ways the 
internal one is even more dangerous, because it moves the masses from 
within, solicits consciences with the same language and the same 
culture, criticizes its values and its false freedom from within. The 
threat of the "internal enemy" is not linked to an appropriation of 
territory and perhaps does not even constitute an economic risk, the 
internal enemy is first and foremost a psychological enemy, it is a 
traitor to the rules and internal lines, it is seen as a rival of the 
most holy "homeland"!!! So these must be punished, repressed and hidden 
and also removed outside the borders like the migrants in Albania. And 
let it be clear that people in the CPRs (where they also die) are there 
for administrative reasons because of the Turco-Napolitano law, the same 
law that made human empathy illegal (the rescue at sea of those in 
danger of life art. 12 286/1998). It is not a question of right or left, 
all States are the physical and psychological expression of oppression!

The second: the class struggle is also carried out through the Penal 
Code. What do I mean? over the last 60 years we have seen the gradual 
and regular increase in criminal laws that increasingly restrict 
people's movements and freedoms but in reality if we then look at who 
ends up in prison and is heavily penalized they are always the most 
vulnerable groups of the community while politicians and rich 
businessmen always get away with it in one way or another. I give some 
examples:

Cuffaro (convicted for external association with a mafia) just 5 years 
out of 7 of sentence. Berlusconi (4 years for tax fraud but converted 
into arrests in his 4500 square meter villa, with 126 rooms and a 120 
hectare park), Dell'Utri (7 years for external complicity in mafia 
association but served only a part), Tremonti (several convicted, 
including tax evasion with 4 years in prison, he only served 2 in his 
"little house" in Rome in via Campo Marzio until he obtained probation) 
vs, for example, Stefano Cucchi who died in prison in 2009 for drug 
possession, Giuseppe Uva, 12 years for robbery, despite having 
confessed. Not to mention the continuous narrative that wants to see 
activists in the same light and convictions as mafiosi, or the dozens of 
migrants who die in CPRs under the "custody" of the State.

For us anarchists the issue of security has always been very clear; 
giving even more authority to a group of people, even armed, "selected" 
by an oppressive entity such as the state, to be able to condemn, harass 
and beat, even to kill or even manage terrorist groups undercover 
(art.31 d.l. 11 April '25) does not make communities or the world safer. 
Preventing systemic and structural issues that lead to violence and 
"criminality", focusing on social justice and available resources, 
instead can lead to united and safer communities.

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