Overview
- Lawmakers in the Senate approved the decree on Friday with 96 votes to 46, sending it to the Chamber of Deputies ahead of an April 25 conversion deadline.
- The Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, which voted 15–7–5 to issue a formal opinion, warned the new preventive detention power gives police overly broad discretion and may clash with the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.
- The council urged Parliament to add clear purposes for any detention, written records and reasons for police actions, and real oversight by public prosecutors so legality checks are possible.
- The decree lets police hold people for up to 12 hours during demonstrations when they are deemed a concrete risk even without a crime, and it also includes a limited legal shield for officers, tighter knife rules and faster migrant repatriations.
- Coverage highlights sharp divides, with opposition MPs staging floor protests, activists amplifying the CSM’s concerns, and some CSM members calling the opinion an overreach, while the Senate left the detention rule largely intact beyond a notice requirement for minors according to Il Post.