Response to Terrorism.
This is the Italian Interior Minister Guiseppe Pisanu and this is how his speech to the lower house of the Italian Parliament was reported by
BBC Online by their Rome correspondant David Willey who concentrated on what to British ears must seem insignificant anti terrorist measures.
- doubling to 24 hours the time suspects can be kept in custody without charge
- interrogating suspects without lawyers present
- strengthening of measures to prevent terrorists from financing their operations
- increasing penalties for carrying false documents
- compiling lists of mobile phone users to help police investigating suspected terrorist crime
- monitoring more closely immigrants from outside the EU who are already the subject of criminal investigations. Those considered a threat to public order or state security will be summarily expelled.
Detention before charge increased to 24 hours. Interrogation without a lawyer. Crikey what ever next?
No mention of the part of Pisanu's speech some may consider just as important, and a lesson for our interior minister, Charles Clarke.
Reported by Corriere della Sera:
“No to a clash of civilisations, but yes to a common response to a shared, clearly identified threat”. The minister of the interior added that “we cannot confuse the threat with Islamic religion, culture or civilisation. However, we must grasp its concrete international dimension if we really want to combat it effectively”. “The existence of this threat to our country”, the interior minister continued, “is not confirmed by specific, irrefutable proof. Nevertheless, the examination of converging circumstances and evidence suggests that it is possible. I pray that events will prove me wrong, and at the same time I feel obliged to do everything possible to keep Italy’s doors firmly in place....I want to say at once that no one is contemplating special laws”, said Mr Pisanu. “We cannot restrict citizens’ freedom in order to combat freedom’s enemies. If we did that”, he observed, “we would be granting those enemies a real victory”. Among the immediate measures mentioned by Mr Pisanu is the reinforcement “of the security of urban transport and large-scale port and railway infrastructures. These installations are relatively vulnerable to small or medium-scale terrorist actions”.
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