Rave party Viterbo, Lamorgese: “Action of force too risky”

” Given the high number of subjects involved, including minors, the characteristics of the area, the substantial presence of vehicles, it was deemed appropriate to immediately start a dissuasive and pressure activity on the participants, recognizing instead as contraindicated action of force “. The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese said this during the report to the Chamber on the rave of Viterbo.” The evacuation of the area with the use of special means, such as hydrants and tear gas, awaiting the rural conformation with the presence of stubble, easily ignited, and where there were precarious electrical systems they could have determined risks of public order and dangers to safety ”, adds Lamorgese, recalling that in none of the raves similar to that of Viterbo that there were in 2018 and in 2019 ” it was decided to intervene by force ”. ” It is good to clarify that local events and events that fall within the sphere of public order and safety remain in the full decision-making responsibility of the prefects and quaestors ”, highlights the minister. However, ” the assessments that emerged in the committees were widely shared by the Department of Public Security, which in similar cases works in support of the provincial authorities precisely because of the serious consequences that the use of force could have entailed, and I myself have followed I step by step the course of the affair, relating to the chief of police, the prefect and the mayor of Viterbo and I felt that the operational choice had no alternatives. ” ” On 13 August at 8.45 pm last August in via Aurelia between Livorno and A group of about 40 campers was checked with about fifty people on board who, despite being asked, did not provide information on the place where they were headed, limiting themselves to saying that they were headed south -explains the owner of the Viminale-. On the campers the presence of materials or instruments for sound diffusion was not found. As no evidence emerged of forms of illegality that legitimized restrictive or precautionary measures, it would not have been possible to adopt measures that could have justifiably prevented the continuation of the journey. of land or buildings, a crime that is typically the subject of a dispute against organizers and participants in the rave party ”, adds the minister, specifying that “ the reinforcements sent to the rave site amounted to a total of 900 units between 14 and 19 August, on the final day alone 300 units were present on the site “. ” The control and belt services had the effect of preventing a number of people well above 4 thousand, assumed up to 30 thousand, from being concentrated in the chosen area as emerges from the confidences gathered by the police forces between the participants themselves ”, notes Lamorgese.
During the briefing, the minister was interrupted several times. “There are orderly ways of being in the classroom and this is not an orderly way”, is the recall made to the classroom by the Speaker of the House, Roberto Fico. “You must respect the classroom because the other colleagues are listening to the minister, after you will make your speeches”. The request for resignation arrives from the desks of the Brothers of Italy: “We expected a different attitude, less omissive, a full recruitment of responsibility on your part – remarks the Fdi group leader in the Chamber, Francesco Lollobrigida -. Today you have shown what you are worth as a minister and this majority has shown itself as it is: divided on these issues. So take note of your failure and resign “. Criticisms against the minister also from the Lega:” We entered this government to see a discontinuity and not to witness what we did not like in the previous government. Minister, change course because otherwise we cannot go forward ” , the words of the Northern League player Riccardo Molinari.