"Ronde towns" headline in the English daily El Pais yesterday with the subtitle "The latest idea to combat insecurity Berlusconi criminalises immigration."
"The temptation to govern based on polls is growing in representative democracies," says the English newspaper, stressing that "it is even more attractive when, as Silvio Berlusconi, is riding the wave of popularity. It may be irresistible when, as happens in Italy, the government has no opposition worthy of the name.
One of the flagships of the ruling coalition is "the insecurity in the city, whether real or perceived '. It was sent to the army in the cities and now has been approved an emergency decree that strengthens penalties against sexual violence and illegal immigration.
The article notes, however, as giving rise to this action, "there is an increase in sexual crimes in Italy, on the contrary, declined last year 10% "but the sequence of episodes," attributed to immigrants, "who have" moved public opinion and provoked retaliation to some of them, especially Romanians ".
The most controversial provision concerns the formation of urban patrols, "an old warhorse of the xenophobic Northern League," despite or perhaps because, comprising "the inevitable implicit criminalization of immigrants."
In closing, El Pais launches his attack "involved the use of the combination of crime - in addition to being potentially explosive immigration is incompatible with a democratic state. The serenity and rigor are not the strong point for Berlusconi, who has made the 'emotional rush one of its trademarks as a politician. "
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