Florence, woman attacked, Nardella calls Lamorgese: “We need more control of the territory”
reactions to aggression
February 12, 2022 – 08:00
The alarm of the institutions, the confetto and quaestor talks: “Immediate reaction”
from Simone Innocenti and Valentina Marotta
After the second episode of violence in a few days, the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella had a confrontation with the prefect Valerio Valenti and the commissioner Maurizio Auriemma. Not solo: the mayor also had a telephone with the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese to ask, once again, for more men of the police. «Faced with these two events so close and so serious, an immediate and compact reaction of all the forces of order and the local police is needed.
Neither I spoke with the prefect Valenti and with the commissioner Auriemma who assured me of the maximum commitment. But above all I have directly addressed the Minister of the Interior, with whom we ask the request to send us a new contingent of men in uniform so that only with the control of the capillary can significant results be achieved ”. Nardella explains: «I also hope that the new police station of Santa Maria Novella will be able to open as soon as possible in order to have a permanent garrison in a very complex and critical area of the city. I had the opportunity to talk about this aspect in these hours with the commander of the Arma, Teo Luzi, who assured me of an interest: direct a strong and clear answer ».
There is no desire to minimize. “Certain the violent events are not decreasing, it seems to me “, says the chief prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo in the face of yet another case of violent robbery against a woman in the center. And Prefect Valenti confirms that “the latest data emerging on robberies are not encouraging”. But if this is a fact, another factor is also undeniable. Prefect Valenti always explains: “It is important to remember that also for the other violent robbery a criminal was brought to justice immediately after the immediacy of the fact”. Again: “Also in the other cases the police are working to define the authors, I would feel optimistic.”
There In any case, the Prefecture announces the will to “deal with this situation”. To tackle crime we need “a package of concrete actions”, how to define Valenti. What are they? “For example, preventive measures – he explains – In some cases these measures can be more effective than arrest”. As an example, the prefect gives the latest measures that the commissioner Auriemma signed against two 21-year-old boys involved in the attack on a patrol of policemen in via de ‘Pucci last 16 October. “I can tell you that I have asked the Police Headquarters to implement this type of measure”, clarified prefect Valenti. But “woe to wanting to indicate in the forces of order the only delegates to resolve this situation. Targeted interventions are needed that involve all the social partners ”, continues the prefect.
In this sense there is also an advanced discussion with Palazzo Vecchio and the mayor Nardella. The municipal administration has asked for the possibility of installing more cameras. “It is a speech we have been thinking about for days: we will make a point in the committee for public order and safety,” explains Prefect Valenti. It appears almost automatic «to call all the trade associations with which a dialogue is to be built into the field. A qualitative leap must also be made in the social field, in offering prospects of integration and life to those who are stranded and who are declining towards delinquency. Repression and prevention must be accompanied by a more global vision of which community in order not to lose sight of social cohesion. There is a risk and we must dispel it together ».
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February 12, 2022 | 08:00
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