Security decree, the final vote: Pd-M5S-Avs senators sitting on the ground in protest, session suspended

ROME – Everyone sits on the floor, with their backs to the government. In the Senate chamber. The opposition remains on the carpet with their legs crossed, they cry shame, the right is making noise, the president Ignazio La Russa jokes and tries to minimize: "On the floor is fine, it's not even the first time it's happened here, but just stay silent, here, go ahead and raise your hands in surrender". Thus begins the day that, at Palazzo Madama, is destined to approve with confidence the security decree.

The measure that introduces 14 types of crime and 9 other aggravating circumstances, a decree law that was also removed from the parliamentary process - a year of work was cancelled to be passed with 'urgency' in the Council of Ministers, at night, last April - is highly contested by the entire minority. And it was approved last week in the Chamber, amid protests over the noose-like timing imposed by the majority. Even yesterday, when it reached the Senate committee, there were many protests at the beginning of the discussion in the chamber, after the right had skipped the examination of the amendments.

A "horror decree", for Avs. "An absolute disgrace that reveals the idea that the right has of security and dissent, in the country", underline the senators of the Democratic Party. In particular, the group leader Francesco Boccia , this morning before entering the chamber, denounces: "The senator of FdI, Berrino, in his speech Tuesday evening stated that 'women who have children to steal are not worthy of doing so and that if a judge believes that a child can be safer in prison than at home with parents who conceive them to go and commit crimes, perhaps it is right that way'. In short, for Berrino, children are fine in prison. I don't think there is anything else to add to what we have heard. This is the meaning of the aberrant idea that FdI, the party of Giorgia Meloni, 'woman', 'mother', 'Christian', has of security".

"At the beginning of the session, together with colleagues from the PD and Avs - claims the deputy group leader M5S Alessandra Maiorino - we peacefully occupied the hemicycle of the Chamber of Palazzo Madama, opposing passive resistance. We therefore put into practice one of those behaviors that the government with the security decree wants to criminalize and brutally repress, effectively canceling the freedom of expression of dissent in Italy and demonizing the weakest people who have no other way to make themselves heard and assert their reasons".

After the chaos and protests, La Russa opened the conference of group leaders. The session was temporarily suspended.