J’Accuse on the Security Decree passed by the parliament into national law: the grip of the extremist right on the rights and freedoms of Italian citizens

J’Accuse on the Security Decree passed by the parliament into national law: the grip of the extremist right on the rights and freedoms of Italian citizens - Gaza the genocide

The security decree is officially law: on June 4, 2025, the Senate approved the final text with 109 votes in favor and 69 against, after the Chamber had also given its green light on May 29. Thus, the Penal Code is expanded with 14 new crimes and 9 aggravating circumstances. The law mainly concerns matters of public safety, crimes against property, protection of the police and terrorism. At the end of the approval process of the vote in the Senate, the opposition strongly contested the content of the decree seen as a restriction of the freedoms and rights of Italian citizens. The increase in penalties and the introduction of aggravating circumstances for those who protest peacefully is clearly a rather worrying indicator in defining this authoritarian and repressive government. It is not so much the crimes regarding those who perhaps use light cannabis, the road block, the scam against the elderly, the violence or threat to law enforcement officials that could also be a priority and shared, but it is the very nature of the provision that sounds like intimidation against those who want to exercise a right to protest and dissent but who could find themselves in a criminal situation, precisely because the underlying purpose of the same law is to expand the repressive sphere to make it difficult to exercise the right to contest. But the anomalous and unconstitutional nature of this grip on citizens' freedoms does not end here: the new law, as already mentioned in a previous article, introduces in art. 31 the expansion of the powers of the secret services to the point of authorizing them, at the request of the President of the Council of Ministers, to create and manage terrorist groups with purposes to be defined according to the interpretation and discretion of the subjects involved. This obviously says a lot about the almost arbitrary power conferred on the security apparatus that are exonerated by this law. The law will eventually have to be promulgated by President Mattarella, but since he has already signed the bill that introduced it, it is doubtful that he will send it back to parliament during the promulgation phase.

The law on Security was clearly not a priority for the country. The extremist right is thus trying to stifle dissent and camouflage the real problems of the people, which are purely economic and concern the cost of living, low wages, job insecurity (which must be eliminated by voting in the referendums against the infamous Job Act), the worsening of public health with the cuts introduced, etc. It is sad to think that in some way it was the divisions of the opposition that favored the arrival in power of this extremist political class that aims to distort the constitution and give an authoritarian and anti-democratic character to our country, also through the alliance with countries that do not respect democracy, such as Hungary, or others that even carry out a systematic genocide, such as Israel. At the demonstration tomorrow, June 7, we will be in Rome to shout out our anger and our indignation against the carnage of Palestinians in Gaza.