Rome, 26 Sep. (LaPresse) – Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani made a minor unscheduled appearance from the stage of the ‘village of legality’ in Rome where he was visiting. As the minister spoke from the stage, a lady interrupted him, shouting: “We, in our suburbs, need more security.” The minister responded promptly, urging the judiciary to increase “rigidity”: “If the local police or the Guardia di Finanza arrests someone, they have to work another shift,” the minister emphasized. If the arrest, for example, is at five to midnight, they finish their shift but have to stay all night at the barracks to take the report. The next morning they go to court, the magistrate releases him and while they, after doing 24 hours continuously, see the one smiling in his face the next morning they find him again dealing drugs. This is not good, so I think we need much more rigidity from the judiciary.” “We are, in this government, on the side of the police,” he continued. But it’s not like we decide what the judiciary does. I tell all magistrates who decide on arrests that it is true that there is a problem of filled prisons, but we must also give signals that guarantee citizens the fact that slaps cannot act unpunished.” Tajani then concluded: “Hitting one to educate a hundred: I believe it is necessary and that even some magistrates should put their hand on their conscience.”
Security, Tajani to magistrates on arrest validation: “Hit one to educate a hundred.”
Rome, 26 Sep. (LaPresse) – Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani made a minor unscheduled appearance from the stage of the ‘village of legality’ in Rome where he was visiting. As the minister spoke from the stage, a lady interrupted him, shouting: “We, in our suburbs, need more security.” The minister responded promptly, urging the judiciary to increase “rigidity”: “If the local police or the Guardia di Finanza arrests someone, they have to work another shift,” the minister emphasized. If the arrest, for example, is at five to midnight, they finish their shift but have to stay all night at the barracks to take the report. The next morning they go to court, the magistrate releases him and while they, after doing 24 hours continuously, see the one smiling in his face the next morning they find him again dealing drugs. This is not good, so I think we need much more rigidity from the judiciary.” “We are, in this government, on the side of the police,” he continued. But it’s not like we decide what the judiciary does. I tell all magistrates who decide on arrests that it is true that there is a problem of filled prisons, but we must also give signals that guarantee citizens the fact that slaps cannot act unpunished.” Tajani then concluded: “Hitting one to educate a hundred: I believe it is necessary and that even some magistrates should put their hand on their conscience.”