The President of the Italian Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, has introduced that her authorities has launched a “war” in opposition to squatting.
“The era in which the State looked the other way in the face of legality is over,” mentioned the Italian chief on her Twitter account.
Through a video posted on social networks on Monday, Meloni reviewed the most recent measures and achievements of the Executive over which she presides; amongst them, the battle in opposition to the mafia and arranged crime, in addition to the seizure of medication, counterfeit merchandise, and weapons.
To this battle, mentioned Meloni, “a novelty has been added in recent weeks, and that is that this Government has started its own, let’s say, the war against squatting”.
The President of the Italian Executive identified that her nation has begun to do “what was not being done before”, “to proceed with the eviction of illegally occupied homes”.
Meloni affirmed that, in the previous few weeks, 10 social housing models had been evicted in Rome, some occupied by felony households.
In addition, three personal properties and one belonging to the Italian Social Security Institute have been additionally evicted.
“In Milan, a social housing complex was evicted, a total of 91 squats, and a school building that non-EU citizens entirely occupied,” mentioned the Italian chief.
In addition, 11 have been evicted in Turin, 16 in Naples, and 17 in Foggia, in a piece that his Executive plans to proceed within the coming weeks.
“The era in which the State looked the other way in the face of criminality and those who do not respect the rules is over,” mentioned the President of the Council of Ministers.
“Social housing buildings must go to the needy, not to criminal families; they must go to families who have no possibility of housing and who often find themselves sleeping under a bridge because criminal families occupy social housing,” she defined.
Meloni identified that this is a matter by which his authorities is doing “what it has to do” and thanked the work that, in that sense, is being carried out collectively by the Judiciary, the police forces, the Ministry of the Interior, and the prefectures.
With info from LGI