The Lega party has filed a bill, with Claudio Borghi as its primary signatory, aimed at amending the law on self-defense by modifying the provisions set out in Article 52 of the penal code.
The proposed legislation provides for the non-punishability of "any reaction" taken in the immediate aftermath of an armed assault inside a home or shop, "regardless of the proportionality of the means used, the persistence of the danger, and the strictly defensive nature of the conduct." This text would in effect exonerate those who, like the Piedmontese jeweler, acted outside their shop under circumstances deemed incompatible with the current self-defense statute.
"If everyone votes for this bill that I have had filed, the day after jeweler Roggero will be free, by virtue of the principle of unlimited retroactivity in the abolition of a crime. Without needing to ask anything of Mattarella," the senator wrote on social media when presenting the initiative.
Article 52 of the penal code states that "a person who commits an act out of necessity to defend their own or another's right against the imminent danger of an unjust offense shall not be punishable, provided that the defensive reaction is proportionate to the offense." The proposal put forward by Borghi envisages the addition of a new paragraph which, in substance, establishes (in the event of an armed assault inside one's home or one's commercial, professional or business premises) that "any reaction carried out in the immediate aftermath of the incident by the person subjected to the assault is non-punishable, regardless of the proportionality of the means used, the persistence of the danger, and the strictly defensive nature of the conduct."
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