The Police Union denounces: “Another attack against officers in Rome, now we are counting the injured”
Thus Valter Mazzetti, General Secretary of the FSP, after today in Rome, in the Fidene district, four police officers intervened to quell a violent fight in an apartment
ROME – “The latest episode of aggression against police officers that occurred today in Rome, where colleagues were attacked in a condominium, is the latest confirmation of the fact that the police force, increasingly subject to attempts at delegitimization and criminalization, are the real targets in the sights of habitual criminals but also of the many who are animated by the most total contempt for the rules and institutions certain of being able to get away with it. While there are those who point the finger at uniformed officers as racist and violent, the truth remains that they work tirelessly for security, paying the price out of their own skin and, often, without being able to defend themselves”.
Thus Valter Mazzetti, Secretary General of the Fsp State Police, after today in Rome, in the Fidene neighborhood, four police officers intervened to quell a violent fight in an apartment and were physically attacked by other residents of the building.
The arrival of further reinforcements was necessary to contain the situation that suddenly degenerated, which ended with two men and a woman accompanied to the local police station and two officers ending up in hospital, one with a slight skull fracture and 20 days of prognosis.
“While we get lost in useless and squalid political controversies about police officers – adds the Secretary of the FSP of Rome, Massimo Nisida -, we continue to count the wounded who leave the hospital and return to put health, serenity, and private and professional life at stake to fulfill their duty. It is time to put things back in the right perspective and understand that the Servants of the State deserve protection, with serious measures, and above all respect. Politics must intervene immediately: derogating the benefits of the law for those who attack the Police Forces must be a priority. Specific measures are needed to ensure that those who attack men and women in uniform serve the right sentence, without any type of alternative measure to detention in prison. The Italian Police Forces are among the best in the world for professionalism, but without the appropriate legal instruments and the certainty of punishment we cannot protect ourselves or the citizens”.