G20: in Rome 9 thousand agents against antagonists, black bloc and No pass
A real army of law enforcement. Weapon of the Carabinieri, State Police, Guardia di Finanza. Army, Air Force and Local Police. Record number of employment: between Friday 29 October, but especially Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, approximately 9 thousand agents will be operational for the G20 at EUR plus the commitments in the historic center of Rome. Mobile units of the PS, battalions of the Arma, green berets Gdf. In gray-green uniforms, 2 thousand soldiers from Operation Safe Streets. The blue weapon engaged in anti-drone reconnaissance. The brigade of Rome capital to guard gates, access bans and detours. Armored Rome to say the least. The effort to ensure maximum safety is gigantic.
Stop at Schengen, border controls
At the Viminale today, Thursday 28 October, a meeting of the Cnosp (National Committee for Public Order and Security) chaired by Minister Luciana Lamorgese with the heads of the police, defense, information and security services and the prefect of the capital Matteo Piantedosi. Yesterday the Ministry of the Interior announced: in view of the meeting on the 20th “the G of controls at all internal national borders has already been ordered from 10 pm today and until 1 pm on November 1”. The measure, explained the Interior Ministry, “adopted as a consolidated practice by the States on the occasion of similar events, was communicated in recent days to all the ministries of the interior of the Schengen area countries and to the European Commission”.
The official numbers of the forces employed
At the end of the Cnosp, the Interior Ministry announced: “In addition to the personnel of the territorial garrisons, 5,296 reinforcement units will be employed in the Capital, of which 2,542 from the State Police, 1,774 from the Carabinieri, 580 from the Financial Police and 400 from the Armed forces, by virtue of a special and temporary extension of the contingent of the “Safe Roads” operation reserved for Rome, which thus rises to a total of about 2 thousand soldiers ». The Rome Police Headquarters directed by Mario Della Cioppa will soon convene the technical table for the events scheduled for Saturday. A protest sit-in against the Draghi government will be held in Piazza San Giovanni from 2.00 pm and, again in the afternoon, there will be a procession from Piazzale Ostiense to the Bocca della Verità, attended by the workers of Gkn, Ilva and the students of Fridays for Future.
A mountain of web through the sieve
From the police headquarters to the Ministry of the Interior, from the intelligence activities to the information of the operational departments, there is a non-stop work of radar and police soundings on a more or less explicit proclamation and sea. All to be verified. Impossible to underestimate, very complicated to verify the validity, concreteness and intensity of the dangers to order and public safety. “Even a like can cause difficulties in reconstructing the exact perception of the threat,” said the head of the Police Lamberto Giannini. The prefect underlines that “something really insidious is taking place: anonymous groups on the web, on sites that bounce around in various parts of the world that perhaps launch initiatives that are often illegal on the web”. Then there is always the nightmare of the surprise in the square. But the steel armor is applied to every area at risk for the G20 making impromptu action very difficult this time. In any case, the “unspoken” now taken for granted of those responsible for public safety against any disorder is “zero tolerance”.