Copasir: “Urgent law to contrast jihadist radicalization”

A “legislative intervention” is urgently needed to combat jihadist radicalization. Introduce the crime of detention of manuals or jihadist propaganda material, as is already the case with child pornography. Pay attention to the web, considered “crucial battlefield”, focus on “prevention, repression and cooperation” with “effective, far-sighted and integrated” interventions. These are some of the indications contained in the ‘Report on a more effective action to combat jihadist radicalization’, speakers Enrico Borghi (Pd) and Federica Dieni (M5s), approved today by Copasir, chaired by Adolfo Urso. “The repressive tools introduced are varied and effective, although they always need to be adequately refined. In particular, for example, in relation to propaganda or manual material, Copasir shares some observations that emerged during the hearings. The only detention of such material. material is not sufficient to trigger any sanction, requesting instead its dissemination – it is emphasized in the report – It is desirable that, for example, this type of crime be introduced on the model of article 600-quater of the Criminal Code on the possession of child pornography material “. “In fact, on the one hand, it is clear that the methods of approach to deradicalization are highly diversified, on the other, it is essential to intervene promptly on radicalized subjects, even if they are legal subjects who have not (yet) committed a crime, but who , at any time, they can decide to leave for a war scenario or, worse, take action on the spot “, continues. Copasir, which has held a series of hearings on the subject, found” an indication of the elevation of connected to violent phenomena, also as a possible consequence of the recent geo-political events that are affecting the areas of the Sahel and Afghanistan “. According to the Committee, “prevention, repression and cooperation are the areas in which it is necessary to act with effective, far-sighted and integrated interventions”. “The overall framework of actions to combat terrorism – continues the report – must necessarily combine these three areas, with the awareness that an interpretative model is essential that is able to integrate micro (individual) mechanisms with macro (social / cultural): only in this way can effective prevention techniques be implemented in the fight against terrorism “. The Committee, which points out “the urgent and no longer postponable need for legislative action”, also looks at the risks that come from the internet: “schools, prisons, Islamic meeting places are the physical places of the challenge but an equally the web is a crucial battlefield. On the web, with an effort of coordination between the various operators, it is necessary to intercept the crucibles of propaganda and to intervene firmly where the process of radicalization of individuals is underway or has occurred “. In the same relationship. it is also noted that “as emerged from the hearings of the heads of the law enforcement agencies, the terrain of social networks, in which a large part of proselytism and radicalization of subjects at risk takes place, poses a problem due to the fact that the jurisdiction in which these areas are foreign, effectively imposing a limit on investigations that encounter difficulties and delays in international letters rogatory “.” In the report, the Committee has the ndivided some possible measures and lines of intervention aimed at accentuating the effectiveness of the preventive action, alongside those of a repressive nature already envisaged, also urging that the legislative proposals on the subject already presented in Parliament be examined “, commented the president of the Copasir Adolfo Urso. “The president, on the mandate of the Committee, will ask the presidents of the Senate and Chamber to raise the awareness of the conferences of the group leaders so that the method deemed most suitable for the examination of this document is evaluated – he concluded – as well as the Report on the discipline for the ‘use of secret contracts, also with reference to the rental of the various interception systems’, approved by the Committee at its meeting on 21 October last “.