What was applied to the officers "is not a criminal shield, but the correct placement of a case within a registration in a dedicated register, required by a law of the Meloni government: it concerns people who appear to have participated in an event in the presence of a justifying cause." This is what Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said on Tg1, expressing "sorrow and deep condolences to the family" of Fakir - the man who died yesterday in Bologna during a police intervention - and for the "great tragedy." And "those who hold prejudicially opposed views towards law enforcement have no trust in them, nor in the judiciary. This is an episode very well documented by body cameras and other footage taken."
On the Roggero case, "the facts established and examined in court reflect an application of the law by the judiciary. Then I believe that, regarding the granting of a pardon, the Head of State should not be put on the spot. Beyond that, there is a broad debate created by the enormity of the case of a person who defended his work and his family also on the basis of what had previously happened to him. And who now finds himself convicted in an apparently disproportionate manner through a very significant criminal and civil sentence." So said the Interior Minister.