Giorgia Meloni’s reply to the Democratic Party’s crazy social media campaign, which shared a very harsh card against the government’s crackdown on baby gangs through its official profiles, arrived shortly.
“With her, your children can also go to prison,” is the “claim” chosen by the Democratic Party above the Prime Minister’s photo. The reference is to the criminal repercussions against members of baby gangs, even if they are minors.
“’With her,’ your children can also go to prison if they commit crimes. For everyone else – Meloni emphasizes, commenting on the Democratic Party Deputies’ post – we are working so that they can grow up in a safer Italy, with more opportunities and a brighter future.” Then a scathing postscript: “P.s. thank you for helping to make this common-sense rule known.”
Fratelli d’Italia also responded to Nazareno: “Whoever commits crimes and is part of a baby gang will have to answer for their actions, even if they are minors. It is the Meloni Government’s anti-maranza crackdown. The left, instead of opposing it, should support it.”
But the oppositions are not listening. “Far from being an ‘anti-maranza’ rule. The one approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers rewrites juvenile justice in a repressive sense and will affect all minors, the children of all Italian families, not a category evoked for propaganda purposes,” attacks Debora Serracchiani, national Justice manager of the Democratic Party and Democratic deputy. “It is very serious that Giorgia Meloni, in an attempt to pursue Vannacci on the ground of security propaganda, chooses to question the principles of juvenile justice. Even more worrying is the combined effect with the other rules approved by this government that restrict the spaces for dissent and protest. In September, with the reopening of schools and the return of student mobilizations, thousands of girls and boys will legitimately return to the squares. With these rules, the risk is that they will be treated primarily as a public order problem, rather than as citizens holding rights. It is a profoundly wrong message.” “Behind the slogan of the ‘anti-maranza rule’ hides a law that concerns all young people between 14 and 18 years old – concludes the former governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia -. The consequences will not fall on a label invented by propaganda, but on the children of Italians. It is a dangerous choice, which sacrifices the educational culture of juvenile justice to chase the slogans of the far right.”
The 5 Star Movement was also very harsh, according to which “the new rule proposed to the Chambers by the government, which introduces the presumption of imputability for minors starting from 14 years of age, is proof that this government continues head-on, always making the same mistakes: they think that by only writing repressive measures and announcing them left and right, problems will be solved.” “This legislature will go down in history as the record-breaker for the introduction of crimes and the tightening of penalties, yet insecurity in Italy is rampant – state the M5s representatives in the Justice committees of the Chamber and Senate, Stefania Ascari, Anna Bilotti, Federico Cafiero De Raho, Valentina D’Orso, Carla Giuliano, Ada Lopreiato, and Roberto Scarpinato, in a note -. What the government does not understand is that crimes must also be anticipated with territorial control, which is completely lacking because the police forces are severely understaffed; that bullying and juvenile crime, an undeniable, alarming, and rapidly growing problem, must first be addressed with work on social and psychological distress, with education. Baby gangs, ‘maranza’ – if the government prefers this term – and every form of juvenile delinquency must first and foremost be discouraged and anticipated by a system that builds barriers, boundaries, rules, positive alternative models, and growth paths. If we think of just throwing them all in, we create a detonator. Juvenile prisons today do not re-educate as much as they should: they are overcrowded, and public staff there are also undersized, so treatment and re-educational activities are at risk. After the Caivano decree, there was a boom in minors in prison, yet social alarm is growing, not decreasing. The Meloni government is collecting decree laws, draft laws, and failures.”
